Lydia Schatz - Beat to death in the name of God.

[Skeptic]

That's really terrible.

"you explain to him that what he's done is violent and that that's not acceptable in society and it's not acceptable in our home"

Fucking hypocrites.

[Kayenneh]

The downside of free speech. Any fucking lunatic can write a book.

Indeed. But I am more afraid of people who would follow what such lunatics write or say, than the actual fuckers who sprouted the nonsense in the first place..

[thesummerqueen]

Just a few more thoughts from a blog I follow:

http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/08/t...ating.html

[Tiberius]

Did anyone see whether the authors of that book had any kids?

I did some research and they appear to have 5 children and 18 grandchildren.

http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/who-is-ngj/meet-the-pearls/

I don't doubt that the Pearls' children all beat their own offspring into submission, and I don't doubt that most of their grandchildren will do the same to their children. It's going to be an ever-growing tree of abuse...

[Cinjin]

Just a few more thoughts from a blog I follow:

http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/08/t...ating.html

Big fan of Ingersoll. Nice post.

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Side note: My parents are Baptist fundies and I was spanked a LOT when I was a kid. A LOT! Oddly enough, even though my dad was the strict disciplinarian, it was my mom who regularly broke wooden spoons on my backside.

God damn that hurt! To this day, I can't look at a wooden spoon without a little chill runnin up my spine.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Side note: My parents are Baptist fundies and I was spanked a LOT when I was a kid. A LOT!

My folks are Catholic, and rarely raised hand to any of us. They left that to the good nuns and brothers who beat the living shit out of us on an almost daily basis.

In the 1950's-60's,the cane was the preferred teaching aid in many Catlic schools. It was used in lieu of qualifications, competence and an aptitude for teaching.

[tackattack]

Leave them alone, they have the right to practice their religion as they interpret it!

That doesn't eschew pesonal responsibility, or social obligation. They obviously missed the part of 1peter-2:13-16 that told them to not go against worldy authorities. Sickening.

Leave them alone, they have the right to practice their religion as they interpret it!

Well, my religion says all child abusers shall be drawn and quartered.

Must be on that old school eye- for- an -eye- schtick

Well they are like the god they worship. After all, he eternally tortures his disbelieving children.

If you mean theese particular people yes, they are evil and selfish, causing torment, inflicting suffering just like the maniacle god THEY worship. Luckily that's not the Bible perspective of God, unless you only read part of the book.

[The Grand Nudger]

So many Yahwehs, so many Christs, which one to choose? Decisions, decisions.

[thesummerqueen]

Side note: My parents are Baptist fundies and I was spanked a LOT when I was a kid. A LOT! Oddly enough, even though my dad was the strict disciplinarian, it was my mom who regularly broke wooden spoons on my backside.

God damn that hurt! To this day, I can't look at a wooden spoon without a little chill runnin up my spine.

I really couldn't tell you what my dad was raised as - they're Romanian so it could be anything at this point. He was a big believer in spanking. When we were younger we all got a few "brain dusters" up the backsides of our heads too. My mother was a spanker, until I got old enough to understand what the mother-look was (you know, the kind that makes you wish you were already 6 ft under, raised to the power of Jew-guilt). Neither one of them believed in actually beating a child (at least, in the case of my dad, not for disciplinary purposes). I was sent to my room a lot, which might account for being a bookworm. I'm personally a big proponent of labor.

Anyway, my point is - my parents didn't switch me or paddle me and I'm now a (mostly) law-abiding citizen who pays taxes and tries to control my tail-gating urges and is polite to old people and holds doors for strangers. If my parents say they need me to be somewhere, I try to be there and help them out. I don't kick puppies or kittens and I think I have a pretty well-developed sense of compassion, empathy, and forgiveness. I'm not perfect, but I know it. I try to work on the things I know are flaws, and express myself in such a way that is most befitting.

So...what did my parents do right that these Christians think shouldn't have happened without me being severely punished every time I smart mouthed (a LOT) or didn't do my chores (often) or lied (not a whole lot or about anything really bad, but still)?

[Cinjin]

It is a curious thing. My folks would probably say, "see, it worked. You eventually turned out to be a responsible human being."