[The STE]

For one, you haven't given a credible source. For two, you're completely misinterpriting my comparison to violent movies. Take two people, each have commited a murder. One person says he did it for Christianity, one person did it because of a violent movie he saw. The religion is as much to blame for the one killing as the movie is to the other: not at all. The people CHOSE to kill.

And as far as calling it an unnecessary practice, it is apparently necessary to the ones who say they were helped by religion. "Oh, but they could have-" nope. Could they have been helped with something else? Maybe, maybe not. But their religion helped them.