RE: Telling children that they are going to hell is abusive?
February 7, 2020 at 11:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2020 at 11:16 pm by ColdComfort.
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(February 7, 2020 at 7:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Suppose I had a child (I don’t) who was misbehaving. Rather than try to correct their behaviour by some other means, I took them out into the garden, set their favourite toy on fire and told them, ‘I love you, but if you don’t be good, that’s what I’m going to do to you.’
Would that qualify as child abuse?
Boru
Yes it would. And where I live it's a criminal offence to threaten anyone in that manner. Why do you ask...? If you think that parents should be forbidden to teach Christianity to their children then it's really the start of a civil war. My kids are adults now but I have grandchildren. I'd fight you over this issue although at my age I'd need a desk job. It's something right out of Mao's China or Stalin's Russia.
Is that what you meant? Hard to tell because you didn't explicitly finish your thought. You'd like to oppress Christians with the power of the state? Take their children away from them?
