I'm aware when I admonish Christian 'slackers' into greater conformity with Scripture that a consequence of that is the possibility that some of them will abuse their children.
While it can be a source of amusement to me that Christians I chide into getting paranoid about wearing a polyester tie with a wool suit, or into looking at a shrimp appetizer prior to their 'front half of the cow' steak as something that will threaten their eventual Salvation, there are clearly some other items in their Bibles that are horrific, and that the power of shaming and 'peer' (even if I am insincere in my blandishments advocating Literalism and Inerrancy) pressure might result in more of the abuses noted earlier in this thread.
It's something I need to reflect upon.
While it can be a source of amusement to me that Christians I chide into getting paranoid about wearing a polyester tie with a wool suit, or into looking at a shrimp appetizer prior to their 'front half of the cow' steak as something that will threaten their eventual Salvation, there are clearly some other items in their Bibles that are horrific, and that the power of shaming and 'peer' (even if I am insincere in my blandishments advocating Literalism and Inerrancy) pressure might result in more of the abuses noted earlier in this thread.
It's something I need to reflect upon.
