"I don't understand it, but I know my god does."

[procon]

63. Yes, they are pushing their fundamentalist gobbledygook onto other people.

No one gets a free pass to proselytize a creed that promotes lurid apathy and indifference to tragedy. Every time some religious extremist -- and, yes, if he is content that his child was just violently murdered, he is an extremist! -- makes some idiot statement like that in public, he is spreading that self destructive gibberish to other impressionable folks and the simple minded whose reality is unhinged from the world.

It matters when a person of some respected standing spreads a macabre death cult dogma that inspires (and excuses) others to embrace his ghoulish aberrations and callous insensitivity. What manner of 'belief' says it's OK for a parent to be a cold blooded psycho who is willing to see his own child sacrificed to his perverted notion of some twisted belief in a divine martyrdom?