Quote Originally Posted by duwal View Post
It's merely condemning all christians to go to this extreme for their children (and possibly others) to believe in god as much as they do. I don't see anywhere where it said that spanking your kid for not reading the bible or believing in a god is a common practice among christian faithful

There's no point to pointing at the bible incident. He was beaten to death for not doing his homework. The other incident was a day before and, unless that was the first time he was beaten, is unnecessary information to the actual story.