Superstitious beliefs are still keeping ignorant people from getting the help they need.

Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua's efforts to become a preacher.

"Satan saw my husband as a threat. Satan attacked him because he saw (Joshua) as a threat," Eva Mauldin told Houston television station KHOU-TV.

Eva Marie Mauldin, the girl's 20-year-old mother, told the television station that her husband is "not the monster people are making him out to be."

"That was not my husband; my husband is a wonderful father," she said. "Satan was working through his weaknesses."

Eva Maudlin described those weaknesses as an undisclosed mental disability, and that her efforts to get help for him have failed.

So here is a situation where a young man has a mental health issue and rather then seek psychiatric help he turns to religion which teaches him about demons and devils, and a child ends up being a casualty of his superstitious beliefs.

The idea that all problems can be solved through religion is archaic. This is the 21st century and science has moved well past the belief that mental illness is due to demonic possession or the workings of the devil. And yet the church continues to preach that message to the faithful. And look how that bullshit has injured this innocent child.

In my opinion if the church promoted the idea that this young man's problem had anything to do with the devil then they should be held accountable for the child's injuries. It is well past the time that the law should be turning a blind eye to the damage that some of these religions can do to the reasoning ability of their members. I think a little accountability would keep the church from being so careless about the primitive messages that it sends out to the masses.