Zenster:

Would Aztec human sacrifice count as a religion in your book? Would Carthaginian child sacrifice count as a religion in your book? Would the ritual burning of a wife at her husband’s funeral count as a religion in your book?

From my point of view, all of these practices are evil, all of these practices are religious worship, and all of these practices are aspects of religion that no truly civilized state will permit. The Aztec state theology, Carthaginian baal worship, and traditional Hinduism are all religions in my book. Calling them religions doesn’t mean that we are required to tolerate barbarism in the name of religious freedom.

A man who murders his son because he thinks his deity told him to is still a murderer.