Religion kills innocent child. Rinse and repeat.

3/30/2009 | 12:48 AM | Evolved Rationalist

Religious delusion and brainwashing has led to the death of yet another innocent child:

Answering to a leader called Queen Antoinette, they denied a 16-month-old boy food and water because he did not say "Amen" at mealtimes. After he died, they prayed over his body for days, expecting a resurrection, then packed it into a suitcase with mothballs. They left it in a shed in Philadelphia, where it remained for a year before detectives found it last spring.
Tomorrow, five of the group's alleged members -- including the boy's mother, Ria Ramkissoon -- are scheduled to be tried in Baltimore on murder charges. Sources and Ramkissoon's mother said Ramkissoon, 22, has agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge on one condition: The charges against her must be dropped if her son, Javon Thompson, is resurrected.

Now for the part where you feel like slamming your head through a wall:

Psychiatrists who evaluated Ramkissoon at the request of a judge concluded that she was not criminally insane. Her attorney, Steven Silverman, said the doctors found that her beliefs were indistinguishable from religious beliefs, in part because they were shared by those around her.

"She wasn't delusional, because she was following a religion," Silverman said, describing the findings of the doctors' psychiatric evaluation.

Translation: It's AWWRIGHT and totally NOT delusional if she was doing it for religion. FUCK YEAH RELIGIONNNNN!

Religion apparently is a nice ready-made excuse for murderers and various criminal whackaloons.

However, some people do seem to get it:

Silverman said he and prosecutors think Ramkissoon was brainwashed and should have been found not criminally responsible; prosecutors declined to comment. Although an inability to think critically can be a sign of brainwashing, experts said, the line between that and some religious beliefs can be difficult to discern.

"At times there can be an overlap between extreme religious conviction and delusion," said Robert Jay Lifton, a cult expert and psychiatrist who lectures at Harvard Medical School. "It's a difficult area for psychiatry and the legal system."

Sadly, such people are few and far between. That is why it is important not to be fucktarded appeasers; and take the effort, grow a spine and speak out. When lives matter, being an appeaser simply shouldn't be morally AWWRIGHT anymore.