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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Spare Not The Rod: Beat Them Into Submission?
Samuel was also a child of the Worldwide Church of God and was impacted by spanking. He was around when Garner Ted came out with his Child Rearing book. For some church kids their lives soon became a living hell.
When Carn Catherwood, fresh out of Ambassador College, was appointed to Cincinnati as pastor, he came in spouting Ted's and HWA's decrees as dogma. Catherwood had no kids of his own at that time, yet told older members how they should be disciplining their children.
He soon had the Spokesmen Clubs making one inch thick paddles about 16 inches long. He had them drill holes though the paddles to cut down wind resistance. He instructed parents from the pulpit that when their children misbehaved they were to be taken immediately to the restroom and spanked. 20 swats was the required number to give. He also expected to hear the child cry, even if it was during his sermon. You would see children hugging their parents as they were being taken out for swats yelling, "Please Daddy NO! Please don't spank me!"
Samuel has a web site up and a blog where he has information on why spanking was NOT used by early Christians and was also not a thing that was done by Jews.
Samuel writes:
Fact: The Bible does not teach that spanking a child will save him from Hell.
Fact: The Bible does not teach that spanking a child should bring tears.Fact: In Bible times, the texts concerning spanking children found in Proverbs were not applied to young children under the age of about 10 years!Fact: Many respected Christian theologians including St. Augustine, Dr. Karl Barth and Rev. Dwight Moody rejected spanking children.Fact: Many Biblically conservative Jewish Rabbis, who have the Old Testament as their Holy Scripture, reject spanking children today.Fact: The main Christian advocates for spanking children now are not usually trained Christian theologians teaching in universities, but most often are conservative fundamentalist Christian pastors, Christian politicians, Christian psychologists, lay church members and Christian school leaders.Fact: Well meaning Christian advocates of spanking children have developed doctrines surrounding what they believe the Bible teaches about spanking children which are not found in the Bible at all.Fact: Well meaning Children's Rights activists, who are not trained Bible scholars, have entered this debate attacking the Bible with disastrous results.
His to web sites are: Christians and the Spanking Controversy
and Blog: Samuel Martin Blog
Armstrongism's Magical God At Work Today In Pasadena
I just love Armstrongism's magical God that performs such dramatic miracles while children are starving to death around the world. Our god was such a merciful god!
Craig W (from South of the Equator)
Today I visited Barnes 'n Noble Bookshop in Old Pasadena; Archive Bookstore
in Pasadena (that Dr Hoeh used to frequent); Fuller Seminary bookstore and
cafe in Pasadena; and finally the Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens.
What was so odd was that I was going to leave the Archive Bookstore and said
a quick prayer that if there was any book in it that might assist with my
researches, it would be nice to find it. Lo! I then lent over to pick a book
out of a bookcase it was 'The Prophecies of Daniel' by Louis Talbot. Talbot
is the man Hoeh used to listen to in the 1940s on the radio and Talbot is
referred to in my article on Hoeh! Coincidence or answered prayer?
Woo Spooky!
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