Awww 🥰

The pup! 🤍 My dogs enjoyed running in it. They are tired tonight!

"that sense of frustration, that spirit of ‘I’ll get even,’ or “I’d like to **** my dad & my mother,” is a good old-fashioned thrashing. That works even in the cradle.”

This is horrifying.

Children are precious & should be protected at all costs.

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Providing a rebuttal to “pseudo-psychologists” and the “piffle taught by lecturers to clubs of silly women,” (Note the derogatory "silly") he states, “The simple truth is that the quickest way to straighten out the subconscious mind of a child & stop that inner rebellion,
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Parents are told to “begin early” with a “couple of spanks” to “settle a baby’s mind about the dreaded nap” (p. 16). He encourages “whipping” children after they are grown, with an example of a young woman being “soundly whipped” by her mother a few days before her wedding.
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Quoting Proverbs 20:30, he states, “A blue bruise cleanses away evil from the character, when rightly given; stripes do the same for the inward life, says this Scripture.” “Certainly, then, sometimes punishment should be so vigorous as to leave stripes on a child.”
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Readers are told that if you do what is recommended, your children will be guaranteed to live godly lives (p. 18) & if you do not then your children may “turn out to be criminals” (p. 15). There is a section entitled “How Whipping Children Keeps them out of Hell!” (p. 24-27).
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Please be extremely cautious reading if you have a history of abuse.
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Why does this matter?

This teaching was alive & well where I grew up in the 70s & 80s. How many cases of abuse went unreported during this time?

In my book, I outline how spiritual abuse looks in families & how spiritual abuse can be used to justify other forms of abuse.

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Here are just a few guests from this past year whose episodes you downloaded and shared:

@tialevingswriter.bsky.social
@chuckdegroat.bsky.social
Rev. Dr. Heather Matthews
@karenroudkovski.bsky.social
Steve Hoffman
@christabrown.bsky.social
@scottmcoley.bsky.social
@kkdumez.bsky.social
Karen Tay

I enjoyed our conversation, and I’m grateful for the work you are doing.

They’re adorable. I’d be the proud mom of four new kittens. 😂

Yes, it is! 👏