Bible-Based Beatings of Children

[FreeThinker]

A movement within Evangelical churches to beat and starve children into Bible-sanctioned submission to the will of the parents has begun gaining ground within the right-wing. Children have been murdered when beaten or starved and the killers are claiming their pastors advised them to based on the three-thousand year-old practices of a small tribe of goat-herders in a desert in the Middle East. This article on Salon.com infuriates me. Children should be loved, not beaten into submission. I don't object to a tap on the butt occassially, but beatings, starvation, "breaking the will of the disobediant child" is unforgivable.

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/26/a_strict_method_of_christian_discipline_has_led_to_child_abuse_partner/

[Guest Dabeagle]

It's amazing what people can be led to believe.

[JamesSavik]

Perhaps it's easier to sell something like this to the type of person who is prone to do it anyway.

[Cole Parker]

When they're in prison for child abuse/cruelty/neglect/murder, perhaps their friendly cell neighbors will show their feelings on mistreatment of children. One can only hope.

C