Reply #57: Your original post was intended

[skepticscott]

to dismiss the deaths resulting from this type of deliberate religious idiocy as unimportant and insignificant. If you're going to do that, you might at least start by comparing those numbers to deaths that you can verify result from the same type of idiocy, instead of simply using agglomerated numbers of deaths resulting from all sorts of causes, including those in which the people responsible for the welfare of the child bore no blame at all.