Baby who failed to say 'Amen' starved by cult

[Justin]

The leader of a US religious cult was "outraged" when a one-year-old boy did not say "Amen" before a meal and ordered her followers to deprive him of food and water until he died....

Read More... (http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-who-failed-to-say-amen-starved-by-cult-court-20100223-ovav.html)

This was a very small cult started in an apartment building and succeeded in doing great harm in very short order. How many more timebomb mini-cults have the moderates & fundies spawned?

[Loki]

This was a very small cult and getting rapidly smaller by the sounds of it.

[Dane]

and getting rapidly smaller by the sounds of it.Natural selection by proxy, unfortunately. If the kids die out, their lunacy won't be perpetuated.

Let's hope the prosecution gets what they're after...

[atheist_angel]

This is very sad...
Hallelujah-y church leaders tell their follows that the miracles don't happen to them because something is wrong with their personal faith in g-d. So the followers take more drastic measures to 'prove their faith' to g-d.

..but when 'g-d' doesn't act, they just can't understand 'why'.