...by the bruises on our infant children:

Most 2-month-old babies weigh no more than seven or eight pounds. Kids that age can't walk or talk or do much of anything other than babble or cry or hope that the adults around them will have the good sense to feed or change or comfort them. One of those adults in Black Earth, 53-year-old Phil Caminiti, believes children that age—if they are fussy for no good reason—should be punished by being hit with a rod, according to a criminal complaint filed recently in Dane County.... Members of [this] church, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Department, are quite open about their "spare the rod, spoil the child" philosophy. Young children are hit hard enough to leave marks and bruises, according to criminal complaints; they're hit in their homes; they're hit if they misbehave in church. Some of the hitting is done initially with a wooden spoon, the complaints allege, but one church member allegedly told investigators they switch from a wooden spoon to a wooden dowel when a child is older and "meatier enough" to handle it.

As someone or other once said: With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.