[coldtea]

>You hear that and you just know that their mental process is just broken, no amount of time spent in prison is going to help.

It's not really different to what idealists and reformers have said throughout the ages.

If you accept the belief in a deity, then nothing about it sounds broken. So, it's not more or less "broken" that Pascal, or Ghandi, or whatever believed in a God.

And even if you don't accept that belief (ie. think all religious people are "broken"), it's not really different to a revolutionary saying he doesn't recognize the judgement of the state court, etc.