(October 19, 2010 at 6:25 pm)padraic Wrote: Hitting any creature,animal or human,weaker than oneself is unmanly and cowardly.
Hitting someone that you supposedly love is even worse.
I was only ever hit once once as a kid, by my out of control father, and that's what hitting is, an act of violence by someone out of control.
I never had need to hit my kids, my voice was enough. If I ever hit my wife I would expect her to walk out of the door. Vice versa, too, I might add!
There are many intelligent Christians, no doubt, but an "intellectual Christian", is surely an oxymoron.