Murican Taliban again..
Seems that there needs to be a worldwide proscription of the brainwashing-form of religious inculcation until say ... age 21?
In some parallel universe, of course. Too late, here. Unless we start arming toddlers, in self-defense? NRA and WInchester would toss a few MIL into that lobby. The Romper Room Ruger has a catchy name -- blue/pink as appropriate; clown faces on the handgrips.
Fight insanity with insanity, I say.
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perhaps the most popular of several ultra-conservative Christian figures to carry forward this centuries-old strain of Christian thought, the Pearls advocate a specific program of even-tempered, non-injurious corporal punishment, or "chastisement," designed to bring about total obedience -- even by infants -- to their sovereign parents.
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Though the remaining children showed no visible signs of abuse, they told police they'd been "disciplined" with the tubing as well. Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey told Salon that the Schatzes had explicitly described to police their adherence to the Pearls' philosophy, which, as one of many horrified anti-Pearl bloggers within the conservative Christian community observes -- recalling precisely what prompted the Schatzes' call to 911 -- includes the admonition that a proper spanking leaves a child "without breath to complain."
We have the Promise Keepers reestablishing full-time patriarchy against the Little Woman and now parents as Sovereigns.. Who Writes This Stuff??