Obviously what the program depicted was child abuse. Problem is that some Mudcatters who can only be described as rabidly anti-religion--just the counterpart to Jerry Falwell, etc--seem to be bound and determined to allege that this is a typical situation for a religious family. It's back to the same old observation--which some people seem never to understand--religion can be abused--just like so many other beliefs--including patriotism, socialism--and secularism.

One of our stalwart Mudcatters--who no doubt sees himself as a secularist-- advocated "stamping out" religion. This person is no more a typical secularist than the family depicted is a typical religious family.

And, as I've said earlier, I'm not in the least religious--just interested in fair play even for some aspects of life which are anathema to some Mudcatters--like religion.