I cannot understand why people who talk about how loving they are make such a fetish about beating children. Its not just a slap either they use switches and paddles and further humilliate children by applying it on bare buttocks. Its physical mental and sexual abuse. I realise Muslims are no better..indeed worse.
Let's first see some study proving it? But, if it is true, it probably has some thing to do with the God Gene or the VMAT2 gene which cause religious belief. The God gene or VMAT2 causes increased catecholamine release, which could potential cause rage issues as well since catecholamine release includes adrenaline release.
I doubt corporal punishment is limited to the religious. I think many who use corporal punishment lack the ability or patients to effectively communicate rules and their reason.
Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away. Proverbs 23:13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die. Proverbs 23:14 Punish them with the rod and save them from death. Proverbs 29:15 A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother. I tried using the same argument on my atheist father, he gave me a good hiding for being a cheeky little bastard! Atheist's sometimes hit there children too!
Jesus has had 2000 years to say that the Bible got it wrong, that we should not BEAT our children....instead, he streadfastly refuses to stand up to child abuse - so much for "Jesus watches over us and answers our prayers, etc." One of the many many reasons that years ago I left that child-beating-approving invisible zombie who lives in the sky. - - - Updated - - - You are correct. Can we at least agree that removing those child-beating/child-abuse verses from a working copy, a daily copy if you will, of a Bible that one creates for their loving family would be a great idea, Spook? Can we? - - - Updated - - - You are right, but can we agree that if the Bible causes MORE children to be beaten/abused than from followers of other religions that those verses cause damage to children? I think that way, how about you? Are you going to rise to the moral level of Modern Secular Humanism, or are you going to defend child-beating/child-abuse verses, Spooky? What say you?
No, it's because they think the Bible is right - when clearly the Bible got this part wrong. The Bible got "love your neighbor" right, but got the parts that say to beat children, or kill gays, wrong. Clearly. So of course Jesus is not perfect, like the Bible implies.
Beating children is nothing to a Christian, arguably, because Jesus will see that torture, brutal savage torture (in a "lake of fire") awaits children when they grow up if they dare to think for themselves (no matter how moral they might become) and don't buck lottery-like odds and pick a different magic unproven invisible unscientific super-hero out of the thousands and thousands on offer.
That's the thing. Even you admit that it's child abuse. But they don't believe it is and that it's a necessary part of child rearing. When you look at the rest of the animal kingdom, other than some insects or reptiles that abandon their eggs, nothing else treats it's own offspring so appauling or with ritual violence.
agree, I think any parent that makes a little child drop their drawers for a spanking is a child molester as there is no reason for that... period .
Whoa, whoa, whoa!! I'm sure that in the very next post a Christian will post the many many verses where the all-loving Jesus directly said that the old texts got it all wrong regarding child beating, since, you know, Jesus was so kind and compassionate and so loving. Yep, I'm pretty sure the very next post will say that. Yep. I myself can't find a single verse where Jesus said that, but what the hell do I know - I'm so stupid that I don't believe that a magic invisible man that lives in the sky is real.
there's a surprise. The thug who wants violence in the streets also wants to physically abuse children.
Funny old world isn't it, the Jew who supports(sorry prefers) Neo-Nazi's is appalled by actual one on one physical violence. Children need to understand violence, 1. Violence is a fact in the world, some things are worth fighting for. 2. Violence should never be used in anger, and in reality it hurts. Keyboard warriors are appalled by this, as are the politically correct. So yes there are situations where a smack is good for a child.
Such a childish accusation to hyperbole spankings as beatings and molestation. We spanked our children when they were young and used other means when they matured. We had no problem taking them to grocery stores, restaurants and other public events. It is adult abuse to not prepare your children for adulthood.
RiaRaeb sounds kinda violent, like Jesus, who allegedly said "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-34.htm And “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.” — Luke 22:36, NIV When one learns proper parenting techniques one doesn't need to resort to violence with their own children - they can move beyond the violence in Jesus' book.
3. Violence is a major part of Christian and Muslim theology as god/Jesus/Allah all use violence in the after-life (barbaric savage torture in a "lake of fire" - incredibly violent) on even decent, moral, hard-working non-believers (like Gandhi, Einstein, etc.), but not in Modern Secular Humanism, which of course is a far less violent belief system.
