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True. Except that a tool that doesn't require the use of logical thought and common sense (and in the case of religion, actually requires the lack of them), is more open to abuse than one that doesn't.
Which is irrelevant since these people would have most likely ended up in a similar way reguardless of their belief. These people were desperate for a 'cure' and stupid to begin with,
a very dangerous combonation. If it hadn't been a religous
premise, it most likely would have been medical. Maybe with
some quack cleaning their accounts out while strapping
electrodes to the poor kids nads and zapping them as a
form of 'adversion therapy'. (feh I saw it on Law & Order
once.))An extreme example but this was the road these
idiots were on.