…However in this case the parent may literally believe that if their child does not go to the religious activity that child will go to hell. If that’s the parents’ actual convinced belief then the parent should have all right to tell that to their child for the exact same reason that a parent can tell their child that they will get run over if they play in the middle of a busy road. Both things are, to the parent, true dangers that they are conveying to their child.

The key distinction between these 2 examples is the former is a subjective, intangible belief; and the latter is an objectively tangible, disprovable possibility.

A delusion should never be permitted as justification for harming anyone, especially of a child in one’s care.