[ed. Trigger Warning for child abuse.]
Christianity doesn’t have a clue what love is. It starts by fucking up the notion beyond all recognition right off the bat. God’s “love” is so great that if you swear eternal obedience and submission, he won’t torture you until the end of time, even though he knows full well you deserve it, you despicable mortal you. This ultimate perversion of love makes it possible for christians to say any atrocious action could be done “out of love”.
At it’s mildest, you have your run-of-the-mill bigots and misogynists, smiling sweetly as vile hatred pours out of their mouths. Middle of the road, we get people like the West Borrow Baptists who don’t bother with the duplicity of smiling or making the vitriol sound nice. They tell people flat out they deserve to burn and suffer endlessly in hell. Out of love, of course. The last step is to go beyond words to express christian “love” and demonstrate it physically, to the point murder if need be.
‘To Train Up a Child’ is a horrendously vile book, authored by a loathsome duo of wretches that the world would be better off without. That bears demands repeating. Michael and Debi Pearl, the repugnant writers of this appalling book, should not exist; the utter obliteration of their influence on our society would be an immeasurable boon. The teachings in their book, which include such deplorable tidbits like telling parents to starve and beat their children to break them into obedience, has resulted in yet another child’s murder.
In a story that caused a nauseating sense of deja-vu, another set of parents have been convicted of murder. The parents, looking to their faith for guidance on how to raise their children, took to heart the teachings of Michael and Debi Pearl and their ‘No Greater Joy’ ministry. As a result, 13 year old Hana Williams died after three years of abuse.
Malnutrition, hypothermia, severe beatings, all part of the program that has lead to at least three cases of parents killing a child while adhering to the advice from the Pearls. I say ‘at least’ as that’s how many I’ve read about. I can only imagine the actual number of horror stories that have resulted from the malicious filth spread by these “loving” christians.
Is it a fringe element, just a few nutcases following a pair of backyard loons? Nope. The Pearls run a very successful ministry, bringing in an estimated $1.7 million a year. They are also the tip of the iceberg. Evangelicals adopting foreign children in order to ‘save their souls’ are an infestation of child abuse and neglect. The christian ‘spare the rod’ doctrine is as mainstream as it can get and it’s killing kids.
Christianity is vile, its idea of love is deplorable, and its witless followers are a threat to the innocent. Because monstrous brutality for your tyrannical “god” isn’t just old testament stuff, as many apologists would have you believe. It is born-again and murdering children for the glory of jebus!
Fuck.
9 comments
December 1, 2013 at 8:12 am
VR Kaine
Sickening. Guess it makes sense, though, that people who don’t believe in evolution would deny ANY sort of progress in any area along with it. And besides, kids… are… mules… right? No, these people are just ignorant, sadistic, insecure a**holes who don’t deserve kids in the first place.
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December 1, 2013 at 9:25 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
Quoted for Truth.
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December 1, 2013 at 10:24 am
john zande
Oh to practice some of their “methods” on them…
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December 1, 2013 at 10:30 am
VR Kaine
And just as sad, they likely don’t think they even killed her. It’s probably that “God took her”.
On a more political note, these people are an example of why I will never fully support the libertarian position. It puts way too much faith in a collective that has never deserved it. These people are a part of that collective, and these are who we’re supposed to give “freedom” to?.
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December 1, 2013 at 10:31 am
VR Kaine
*they
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December 1, 2013 at 11:56 am
The Arbourist
@JZ
How do you think submissive christian wives are made?
:(
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December 1, 2013 at 11:59 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
This lies at the heart of my objections to religious ‘morality’. When things go to shit, you blame the sky-daddy and raise your hands to the heavens. Abdicating yourself to the magical man in the sky is not an ethical position. This from the people who like to trumpet personal responsibility… so enraging.
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December 1, 2013 at 1:48 pm
SM
When you say that you have a “personal relationship with Jesus”, then you get to do whatever you want, because whatever occurs to you personally has surely come from Jesus. You are, in fact, your own god.
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December 1, 2013 at 1:55 pm
The Arbourist
@SM
Kinda hard to be moral when you’re making all the rules I imagine, no? Magical thinking is toxic on so many levels, the damage done to children, women and families by these mendaciously deluded sociopaths is unconscionable.
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