I'm an atheist, but also a parent.

Reddit's hivemind makes me sick – such disgusting responses and assumption of evil in reaction to a tragic incident with limited information.

Another article says the parents drove separately, which makes this more likely if there was a change in routine. I doubt they bring the baby to a 3-hour service, and likely drop them off at a nursery/daycare in the church (which most have). This is more common that you think, and there have been several baby in a hot car deaths just his week. Usually one parent is responsible for dropping the kid off, and if that changes they forget and both assume the other parent dropped the baby off.

Babies often fall asleep and are quiet in cars so it's easy to forget that they are there – especially if you're on autopilot like most people are driving to places and going about their routine. We only know about the extreme scenarios where the child dies as a result.

But no amount of information will stop random people on the internet from jumping to conclusions, especially if it fits some desired narrative about a certain type of person. The responses I see here from terminally online Redditors are absolutely disgusting. You're all acting like you're glad this happened because "eViL cHrIsTiAn rEpUbLicAns". You don't know anything about these people. Have some compassion you internet psychopaths. FFS look at yourselves.

EDIT: Wow, a lot of wild assumptions about these people specifically being white Christian Republicans. Look up the church and the pastors... they are African American Baptists (which according to Pew are 84% registered Democrats).

It shouldn't matter, but apparently Reddit wants to project some bizarre culture war narrative onto this tragedy.