If you have to lie, your belief system is a sham and you have already lost.
This article shows once again that religion is harmful to children and other living things. Beating children doesn't make you right, it makes you a bully. Kids learn quickly that the bigger can exert power over the smaller to get what they want, thus perpetuating the cycle of abuse.
It's incredible what just a little bit of empathy and critical thinking can accomplish- reason enough, I'm sure, for theocratic bastards to eradicate both.
"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only believed nonsense, they can be 'saved.' It's immoral."
The BuyBull/religion turns good people into sociopaths, and already disturbed people like DeSantis and Gregg Abbott into pathological lying psychopaths.
It's a story as old as religion. Religious groups see themselves as being in possession of the absolute truth, but live their lives in fear of having those beliefs challenged. Therefore, public schools are defined as evil. Some home schooled kids do okay, while others are handed more than they can ever overcome. This burning desire to indoctrinate children before they've reached the age of reason, with ideas an educated adult would reject out of hand, speaks to just how weak the Christian message is.
So, the Bealls discovered that what they were getting from their Christian "guides" amounted to little more than IMAX-grade projection. That had to be a near-impossible lesson to learn, but, based on this piece, the outcome was more than worth it.
I'm thrilled for the Bealls for this result and wish them a happy and prosperous future.
That "Train up a Child" book have ended the lives of 3-5 children and the parents who followed such a book ended up in spending decades prison for it. The Pearls both should face the same fate as the parents. No amount of defense or excuse can justify what the book advocates and what the results of the book have and still produces. The Pearls are directly responsible and should belong in a cage at the Gray Bar Hotel for the rest of their lives.
"did not capture the childhood terror of being struck several times a week.”
Several times a week? Jesus Christ, my parents both believed in corporal punishment, because it was the 1950s but it was more like several times a year. I guess my parents didn't believe in "breaking the will?" That idea is terrifying.
I'm still not in favor of home-schooling even if there was proper oversight. I just don't think separate but equal systems are a good idea even if they are functionally equal. There may be cases where exceptions should be made. (Students with special needs that are not/cannot be met by the local public school system. Children whose parent's job requires extensive travel who would otherwise have to be sent to a boarding school..) And in those cases well-regulated (not in the sense of the modern popular interpretation of the 2nd Amendment)
Michael Farris is also president of the anti-LGBTQ hate group, Alliance Defending Freedom.
The paddling nonsense was more fully described by Dobson. He advised to use a hairbrush, paddle until tears appear, if the crying goes on too long ... paddle again.
As for the Christian Bubble, much of it is cult-like. Consider the problems of Hillsong. While elders were smoking, drinking and fucking they were gouging money out of people who could not afford to subsidize the enormous wealth that senior pastors accumulated. They had palatial homes, off-the-books revenues expensive cars (Lambos) and multiple servants to tend to their every need. Donors were asked to substitute their coffee for prayers and to donate their coffee money.
I read that article this morning & am glad to see it referenced here. So many disturbing ideas behind the Christian Right’s home schooling rationale! I’m glad the Bealls were able to educate themselves and appreciate the breadth of their daughter’s public school education. (Learning to read is so important!)
1. Physically abusing your children is a proper form of discipline
I got spanked as a child and all it taught me was pain and the unleashing of the wrath of an adult.
2. Questioning the existence of God is the result of trauma.
Once you start to question God's existence, it will be hard to recover from and that cannot be tolerated in a Christian household. In reality, the ability to question things is the sign of an inquiring mind. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite of Christianity.
3. The public schools are anti-Christian bastions of immorality
Such a statement is so insulting to educators it's hardly worth addressing except in ridicule. Public schools are teaching secular education not religion.
Glad they got out, hope they serve as a positive example instead of an object lesson. Or something, I'm heavily medicated today. The rise in homeschooling is kind of scary, the people who stay believers are going to be voting, running for office. The secular vote needs to turn the fuck out.
If you have to lie, your belief system is a sham and you have already lost.
This article shows once again that religion is harmful to children and other living things. Beating children doesn't make you right, it makes you a bully. Kids learn quickly that the bigger can exert power over the smaller to get what they want, thus perpetuating the cycle of abuse.
"Public schools were places where children are bullied, or raped in the bathroom, or taught to hate Jesus."
Pure projections of Christian schools and universities and homeschools much?
It's incredible what just a little bit of empathy and critical thinking can accomplish- reason enough, I'm sure, for theocratic bastards to eradicate both.
"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only believed nonsense, they can be 'saved.' It's immoral."
-- Christopher Hitchens
The BuyBull/religion turns good people into sociopaths, and already disturbed people like DeSantis and Gregg Abbott into pathological lying psychopaths.
It's a story as old as religion. Religious groups see themselves as being in possession of the absolute truth, but live their lives in fear of having those beliefs challenged. Therefore, public schools are defined as evil. Some home schooled kids do okay, while others are handed more than they can ever overcome. This burning desire to indoctrinate children before they've reached the age of reason, with ideas an educated adult would reject out of hand, speaks to just how weak the Christian message is.
So, the Bealls discovered that what they were getting from their Christian "guides" amounted to little more than IMAX-grade projection. That had to be a near-impossible lesson to learn, but, based on this piece, the outcome was more than worth it.
I'm thrilled for the Bealls for this result and wish them a happy and prosperous future.
That "Train up a Child" book have ended the lives of 3-5 children and the parents who followed such a book ended up in spending decades prison for it. The Pearls both should face the same fate as the parents. No amount of defense or excuse can justify what the book advocates and what the results of the book have and still produces. The Pearls are directly responsible and should belong in a cage at the Gray Bar Hotel for the rest of their lives.
"did not capture the childhood terror of being struck several times a week.”
Several times a week? Jesus Christ, my parents both believed in corporal punishment, because it was the 1950s but it was more like several times a year. I guess my parents didn't believe in "breaking the will?" That idea is terrifying.
I'm still not in favor of home-schooling even if there was proper oversight. I just don't think separate but equal systems are a good idea even if they are functionally equal. There may be cases where exceptions should be made. (Students with special needs that are not/cannot be met by the local public school system. Children whose parent's job requires extensive travel who would otherwise have to be sent to a boarding school..) And in those cases well-regulated (not in the sense of the modern popular interpretation of the 2nd Amendment)
Michael Farris is also president of the anti-LGBTQ hate group, Alliance Defending Freedom.
The paddling nonsense was more fully described by Dobson. He advised to use a hairbrush, paddle until tears appear, if the crying goes on too long ... paddle again.
As for the Christian Bubble, much of it is cult-like. Consider the problems of Hillsong. While elders were smoking, drinking and fucking they were gouging money out of people who could not afford to subsidize the enormous wealth that senior pastors accumulated. They had palatial homes, off-the-books revenues expensive cars (Lambos) and multiple servants to tend to their every need. Donors were asked to substitute their coffee for prayers and to donate their coffee money.
I read that article this morning & am glad to see it referenced here. So many disturbing ideas behind the Christian Right’s home schooling rationale! I’m glad the Bealls were able to educate themselves and appreciate the breadth of their daughter’s public school education. (Learning to read is so important!)
1. Physically abusing your children is a proper form of discipline
I got spanked as a child and all it taught me was pain and the unleashing of the wrath of an adult.
2. Questioning the existence of God is the result of trauma.
Once you start to question God's existence, it will be hard to recover from and that cannot be tolerated in a Christian household. In reality, the ability to question things is the sign of an inquiring mind. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite of Christianity.
3. The public schools are anti-Christian bastions of immorality
Such a statement is so insulting to educators it's hardly worth addressing except in ridicule. Public schools are teaching secular education not religion.
"and dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark."
How many pairs of Titanosaurus ? One for the genus or one for every species under this classification ?
Glad they got out, hope they serve as a positive example instead of an object lesson. Or something, I'm heavily medicated today. The rise in homeschooling is kind of scary, the people who stay believers are going to be voting, running for office. The secular vote needs to turn the fuck out.
what a swell guy.
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