Very Christian of you...

So, more of what we're dealing with here..


Today we had James Dobson beating his small dog, and now other fine upstanding Christian families beating their children, old testament style.

Just for the record Mister Ronald E. Williams, it does appear that you need some correction. I would be happy to provide it. I understand that your primary capability is in the beating of small children, so you may find me more of a challenge.

I think what is described below is the typical up-bringing of a right wing/Republican. I'm no child psychologist, but it would seem to me that a child that is beaten truly believes he did something wrong. Through patterns and long periods of abuse, I suspect the child continually seeks approval from the arch-authority figure. I really think that may extend into adulthood, and be a cause of why a person would irrationaly support the Republican party when it's not in their best interest to do so.

I think the oxen probably got his ass regularly beat by abusive parents, and he's still trying to fix it by being a good boy for the Republicans.

Those of us on the other side weren't beat into submission.

Excerpts from:

THE CORRECTION AND SALVATION OF CHILDREN

By Ronald E. Williams

The world and humanistically-trained minds are repelled in horror at the thought of a God who would deliberately order painful correction of a child and use words as strong as "beat" in ordering parents to carry out that correction. The Scriptures make it abundantly clear that such painful correction is the most loving, wise, and responsible procedure that a Godly parent can follow in developing obedience and character in his child. Therefore, when you hear someone object, "But that will hurt my child," you can answer, "Precisely, that is God's goal, that the child be hurt with the pain of the spanking during a session of correction."
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Both my wife and I have often remarked that it is good that one of our children was not our firstborn. This particular child who came along later in our family was extremely willful and rebellious toward our authority and would often require sessions of correction lasting from one to two hours in length before the will would finally be broken! Had this child been our first, we may well have been tempted to despair of the grace of God.

Do not be discouraged, dear parent, when it appears that your Godly efforts to chastise your child with the rod of correction meet with total resistance towards your authority. This simply means that you have started on the right course and you must now pursue your objective of a broken will with great vigor until your mission is finally accomplished. This may require a great deal of self-discipline on your part but you can do it, since God requires you to do so.
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My wife and I have a general goal of making sure that each of our children has his will broken by the time he reaches the age of one year. To do this, a child must receive correction when he is a small infant. Every parent recognizes that this self-will begins early as he has witnessed his child stiffen his back and boldly demonstrate his rebellion and self-will even though he has been fed, diapered, and cared for in every other physical way.

On what occasions should a child be corrected? Whenever a child directly disobeys authority or shows disrespect and rebellion toward authority, that child should receive correction. Lesser infractions of course would receive lesser forms of correction with the rod being reserved for the more serious infractions.