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Does the Bible Advocate Beating Children?
Dennis being spanked by his Dad with a hairbrush The Bible speaks, you decide. And please, no revisionist, a rod is actually a shepherd’s crook used to gently guide the sheep (children) along. The...
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Why Do So Many Evangelicals Abuse Their Children?
Now there’s a title sure to get everyone’s attention! Why do so many Christians abuse their children? The reason is primarily a theological one. (though they might not even realize it is) Most...
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Has the Spanking Ban in Sweden Led to a 500% Increase in Child Abuse?
Michael Pearl In today’s mail came the March-April 2015 edition of Michael and Debi Pearl’s No Greater Joy Magazine. This issue featured an article written by Michael Pearl titled Attack on Traditional...
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What Should We Do When Religious Freedom Leads to Child Abuse?
Gerald Harris, pastor Crossroads Baptist Church, Sellersburg, IndianaThe fracas in Kentucky over Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has brought to the forefront the...
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Michael Pearl Continues to Advocate Beating Children
Michael Pearl Michael Pearl, author of To Train Up a Child, continues to advocate the ritualistic beating of children in the name of God. In the November-December 2015 of No Greater Joy Magazine, Pearl...
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Are Children Naturally Rebellious Against God?
A guest post by Jonny Scaramanga, who blogs at Leaving Fundamentalism. In an earlier blog post, The Dogma That Followed Me Home, Cat Givens described the horrifying abuse she suffered at New Bethany...
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Does the Bible Advocate Beating Children?
Dennis being spanked by his Dad with a hairbrush The Bible speaks, you decide. And please, no revisionists; a rod is actually a shepherd’s crook used to gently guide the sheep (children) along. The...
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Why Do So Many Evangelicals Abuse Their Children?
Now there’s a title sure to get everyone’s attention! Why do so many Christians abuse their children? The reason is primarily a theological one (though they might not even realize it is). Most...
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Has the Spanking Ban in Sweden Led to a 500% Increase in Child Abuse?
Michael Pearl In today’s mail came the March-April 2015 edition of Michael and Debi Pearl’s No Greater Joy Magazine. This issue featured an article written by Michael Pearl titled Attack on...
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What Should We Do When Religious Freedom Leads to Child Abuse?
Gerald Harris, pastor Crossroads Baptist Church, Sellersburg, Indiana The fracas in Kentucky over Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has brought to the forefront the...
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Michael Pearl Continues to Advocate Beating Children
Michael Pearl Michael Pearl, author of To Train Up a Child, continues to advocate the ritualistic beating of children in the name of God. In the November-December 2015 of No Greater Joy Magazine,...
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Are Children Naturally Rebellious Against God?
A guest post by Jonny Scaramanga, who blogs at Leaving Fundamentalism. In an earlier blog post, The Dogma That Followed Me Home, Cat Givens described the horrifying abuse she suffered at New Bethany...
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Michael Pearl Says Beating Two-Year-Olds is the Best Way to Get Them to Behave
Michael Pearl In the March/April 2017 edition of No Greater Joy, Michael Pearl gives advice to a mother who is frustrated with her toddler’s rebellious behavior. The mother wants to know the most...
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Lori Alexander Says Beating Children is God’s Approved Way of Controlling...
Recently, Christian Fundamentalist Lori Alexander took to her blog to promote beating children as God’s approved way of controlling children. In particular, Alexander objects to Dr. Spock’s...
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Does the IFB Church Movement Promote Ritual Child Abuse?
The Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) church movement is a collection of loosely affiliated independent churches.(See Let’s Go Camping: Understanding Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Camps.)...
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Christians Say the Darnedest Things: Lori Alexander Advocates Making Children...
There is a huge mistake going on among many parents today. They don’t want to say “no” to their children. They don’t want to correct them. They don’t want to discipline them or use the rod on their...
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Sounds of Fundamentalism: Jesus Would Have Beat His Children, Says John Piper
John Piper The Sounds of Fundamentalism is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a video clip that shows the crazy, cantankerous, or contradictory side of Evangelical...
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Quote of the Day: Beating Children Banned in Scotland
Dennis being spanked by his Dad with a hairbrush Many years ago, we at the Coalition for Equal Protection set out on a mission to give children the same protection from physical assault as adults. For...
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UPDATED: Dr. David Tee Says “Mind Your Own Business” Over Post on Evangelical...
The “Sketchy” Dr. David Tee, AKA David Thiessen, AKA TheologyArcheology “Dr.” David Tee continues to express butthurt outrage over virtually everything I write. Tee, whose real name is David Thiessen,...
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