What About the Children?--Is Religion Child Abuse?

Breakpoint with Chuck Colson ^ | 12/27/2007 | Chuck Colson

[CholeraJoe]

Jessie Cave

[Tax-chick]

Thanks :-). What pretty blue eyes she has.

[tpanther]

What a shame she didn’t smack him right upside his empty head!

And then lecture him...OK now now...remember...stay calm...mustn’t defend yourself...

[CholeraJoe]

Rupert Grint and Emma Watson apparently really like working with her. Emma says on her blog that she’s hilarious.

[Lowcountry]

The “mental abuse” Dawkins refers to is the result of teaching children that nonbelievers will spend eternity in Hell. Dawkins calls this doctrine “an extreme threat of violence and pain” and “mental terrorism.” He rhetorically asks, “If you can sue for the long-term mental damage caused by physical child abuse, why should you not sue for the long-term mental damage caused by mental child abuse?”

I guess you could make the same argument about the Global Warming scare tactics.

[MEGoody]

Yeah, he's so much brighter than me

That's what he and his fellow atheists would like you to think. But I'm not impressed with is level of 'intelligence.'

[Tax-chick]

That’s good. It’s usually fairly obvious in movies if actors dislike each other. This is okay if they’re antagonists, of course ...

[383rr]

Yup. Classic case of chickens coming home to roost.

They can’t say they weren’t warned.

[wintertime]

Ping

[festus]

He mocks the irrationality of believing in something that you cannot subject to scientific scrutiny;

Which is why I mock psychology.

[wintertime]

I visited with a friend of mine the other day...her son has a record now because he was attacked by four boys at a public high school and he was charged with disorderly conduct because he hit them back. The principal told her she should spend the time he was suspended teaching him not to fight back in such a situation.

I bet that stupid mother still has her son in government school. (It's hard to give up the free babysitting addiction.)

[coydog]

I would tell the b*tch that self-defense in the face of unprovoked attack is a human right regardless of age and status, and that I would be doing my level best to inflict some legal pain on her in return.

[RSmithOpt]

Someone needs to beat a little sense into that principal’s thick skull... 4 on one is never a fair fight unless apprehending a perp.
Gang of some kind?
Wouldn’t surprise me.

[reg45]

In reality, the absence of religion is child abuse.

[wintertime]

Please place me on your ping list.

Thank you, Wintertime

[Mr. Silverback]

What a shame she didn’t smack him right upside his empty head! And then lecture him...OK now now...remember...stay calm...mustn’t defend yourself...

LOL! She told me that if she'd known disorderly conduct was only a $250 fine she would have taken a poke at him. Apparently a student punched him out last year because (the boy claims and I believe him) he overheard the guy using the N word to describe a black student. You gotta like a kid who hears that word, barely even knows the kid it's being used against, and dispenses some much-neeeded justice.

[Mr. Silverback]

Whatever. God can hate me he can love me...... it all feels the same.

Don't judge Christ by His followers, especially the more stupid ones. Let me be very clear here: God allowed a bunch of Roman PFC's to torture Him to death, precisely because of His love for you and precisely because He desired that no one would go to Hell unless they specifically told Him to jump in a lake.

[Mr. Silverback]

I guess you could make the same argument about the Global Warming scare tactics.

Yep..."Mommy, all the polar bear cubs are dwowning because of your SUV!"

[joebuck]

"Dawkins calls this doctrine “an extreme threat of violence and pain” and “mental terrorism.”

Is this really worse than the end Dawkins perceives? The Dawkster has obviously never read Milton's "Paradise Lost" where the poet takes his arguments and plays with them philosophically in verse. This horse has already been well beaten. Great read.

[Mr. Silverback]

The tools provided to the lefties by the righteous right will now be used against the righteous right. Nope, didn’t see that coming at all!

Oh, this should be fun. Please elaborate.