It appears to me that any investigation as to the nature of the deaths of the children, or if and to whom blame is to be attributed, is being superseded by the screeching of vultures perched on the corpse of religion.

Joe is right, there is good and bad everywhere, and historically there has been a lot of bad in all organised religion, but taken as a piece, Christianity has contributed greatly to the health and wellbeing of society.
A purely secular society would be another step on the road to the deification of "self" which we see looming larger every day.

I sense the old political agenda at work; as I remarked earlier the "liberals" real target is the Church and its destruction....the last bastion of conservatism.
I am a socialist but it has become obvious to me that most conservative social values are beneficial and indeed necessary in todays rootless and hopeless society.