Pat Robertson: non-religious children should be beaten

[vorlon13]

When he was younger Pat was a randy bloke.

Or a date rapist.

[robvalue]

It's funny, I've never had to beat anyone up for them to understand maths.

Of course not. I wait until they have shown good evidence of learning, then I beat them up.

This guy is admitting that his shit is so stupid that it can't even fool children, and they need to be bashed into pretending to believe it. God needs thugs. Of course he's too stupid to realize what message he's really sending here.

[Lemonvariable72]

Not sure. I think for Pat to ejaculate electricity would need to be applied to his prostrate. I might pay to see that. No, noooooooooo! Mental image.

As far as I know, he gets horny over blood diamonds. Money's his Viagra. Which is a good indicator of how well he understood the Jesus quote about the eye of the needle.

Probably cumslike a chemical pellet fire extinguisher. All dry and dusty with a long spray, from a lack of use.

[TheRocketSurgeon]

This guy is admitting that his shit is so stupid that it can't even fool children, and they need to be bashed into pretending to believe it. God needs thugs. Of course he's too stupid to realize what message he's really sending here.

My church definitely believed in the "beat the child into submission" rule, and I was frequently spanked for failure to comply with authority figures in my church. I wanted reasons for everything, and they always had an issue with my insistence on this point, even though I was a Christian, growing up; they simply could not believe that a child was intelligent enough to see through the "because I say so" BS from adults. In one instance, I was beaten right in the church hallway because I said "hell" after learning it was a place, and not a curse word!

This kind of fundamentalist is quite open about the concept of breaking a child's will through violence. To the fundamentalist, submission is a critical element of belief, and when you already accept the notion that it is okay to indoctrinate a child into your belief system, it's not a huge step to the next level, using disciplinary violence to punish willful defiance of authority figures, including but not limited to the parents.

We are already aware of Christian books, such as To Train Up a Child  by Michael Pearl of the "No Greater Joy" Ministry that have directly led to the deaths of children through such violence. The Christians even have "boot camps" that openly advocate for "breaking the child's will".

Sadly, it seems to be just one more area in which (fundamentalist, especially) Christian doctrines are at odds with our increasing knowledge of human nature through science.

[Cyberman]

I wonder why these fuckers live so long.

God's not an idiot. If you had the power, wouldn't you keep the twat away from you as long as you possibly could?

[robvalue]

TRS: That's disgusting, I'm sorry to hear you had to go through that