84 Afghan girls hospitalized in apparent poisoning

how very compassionate of you

But who is going to enforce 'good parenting' on a system-wide basis without getting demonized by self-righteous fat-attitude mothers in droves of bacterial-infested minivans?

there is nothing wrong with religion, just people.

Well to be fair back when a supernova exploded (during the dark ages) there was a star so bright it could be seen for weeks in the sky (as easily as the sun).

Every country in the world has some sort of documentation of the event. Except for one group of countries, the Catholic run European nations. Because according to the bible stars did not change.

That means that millions and millions of people ignored something as dramatic as a star SO BRIGHT YOU COULD SEE IT IN THE DAY. It wasn't that they all had raw necks either, a short while after (or was it during) Halley's comet had gone by and there were tons of reports of that. Why? Because Comets aren't relegated by the bible.

SO. Considering that millions and millions of people ignored something so dramatic that every other place on the planet documented it because their particular book of faith said it doesn't happen...I'd say there is something fundamentally wrong with religion.

well thats just christianity thank god im not a christian. if you wanna read something interesting look up scientific facts in the Qur'an.

Yes and way back when the middle east used to be the center for scientific advancement in the world.

Almost every group of stars that can be spotted with the naked eye has an arabic name.

Then one day a cleric declared that mathematics and astronomy were works of the devil (change name where according) and ever since then the middle east has never recovered.

If memory servers there has only been something like 1 or 2 nobel prize winning middle easterners. The nations comprising that region have all been in a perpetual stasis intellectually speaking.

The moment any country or person turns to god they find themselves quickly closing off to any other cognitive growth.

Newton himself suddenly stopped making discoveries or advancements of any kind once he decided that god was the answer to the things he didn't understand. If the man coined as "Histories greatest mind" couldn't escape the god void how can we expect other people to?

I mean I'm not out to crap on your parade, I just find it disturbing how every time faith comes into control of a region that the region falls into disrepair, intense wars, and intellectual stagnation of just about any kind.

Look at the US, we have states fighting to have various scientific fields labeled as fallacy.