WTF? Cat Buried Alive

I am not an animal lover per se.  Being deathly allergic to them all sorta precludes that.
But this is beyond me.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/cat-buried-in-concrete-colorado-city-az_n_1660320.html

So a Mormon sect buries a kitten alive as part of a warning?
What the hell is up with these sub-humans?

They are using their faith and belief to justify their cruelty to animals and for some reason we are supposed to see faith as a "good thing".

Granted, this is not as bad as when Muslims stone or shoot a woman, but still.