God Spanks
Yes, God spanks. But like all loving fathers, He also holds us as we cry against His shoulder, as we tell Him we’re sorry and that we will amend our ways.
He spanks and He comforts because He wants us to grow up to be like Jesus. (Rebecca Luella Miller)
This is a curiously worded post from the ever-misguided Becky. She suggests that children with knives playing next to power outlets can only be saved if they are spanked by their parents, and that she, as an adult, can only be saved from her bad behaviour if her invisible god ‘spanks’ her by making her life miserable.
I’m intrigued, and I’d like to invite all Christians who agree with her to give a quick outline of their relationships with their parents when they were children. How was any challenging behaviour dealt with? Were you a nice child? Did you enjoy the company of your parents?
I don’t know if you ever read Giles Fraser. For example, this on yesterday’s particular crime in Westminster, and prayer.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2017/mar/23/prayer-is-not-wishful-nonsense-it-helps-us-to-shut-up-and-think
There is a lot better writing in newspapers and blogs, you know. Newspapers are not such a fertile source of idiocy. I am spending less time reading those humourless TERF blogs, having realised they are too silly to bother with.
Could that moment of calming the mind, emptying your head waiting for stuff to become clear, have value?
Yes, blogs show what ordinary people think, and I am sure a lot of ordinary people think like Becky, but-
could you, just possibly, turn from showing us examples of how people are wrong, to the more difficult task of showing people who are right about something?
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I’ll read the link, clearing our heads is definitely of use. You might like my next post, in which I’ll demonstrate Ark is wrong.
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Well, I have first hand experience of this. When i was about 7 I found a metal handled comb, some conductive metal sheets from inside a battery , put the two together and proceeded around the house (it was a big house) blowing-up about half the wall sockets. It was quite thrilling and the little ‘explosions’ created a fantastic black soot blast effect on the surrounding wall/wallpaper. Needless to say, when Father God and Mother God discovered this I was in some serious trouble. I however was not spanked, or even threatened. What did happen was that I was told, in no uncertaion terms, just how dangerous it was what I was doing and if I had killed myself they would both suffer enormously… and that wasn’t fair. It was thoughtless. Lesson learn’t.
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And a few years later you got beat up by a Kangaroo! See… Yahweh was watching and sorted you out!
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Balanced the ledger. To tell you the truth, being blown across a room would have been mildly better than that bastard roo. That thing was mean.
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It’s so bizarre that the pro-spanking lobby keep at it when there’s no reason. My parents were spankers and tell the story of my sister going for power points and spanking her … and it having no effect. It’s mindless.
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Your sister was into power points, too? I think we should meet.
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I have made it clear how I feel about this subject.
Little sh!t’s (todders ’cause that’s what they do mostly), the older snot nose and the ever so lovable teenager deserve no less than the best, most prolonged and ruthless psychological warfare program that can be devised by adults.
It’s what made teaching high school so much fun.
The little (and some not so little) bastards were at the age where they needed an adult to act like an adult.
They would go absolutely insane when they discovered I was just like them and fought dirty.
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Maybe if you treat kids like little shites, they become little shites. Give them no example of love or a sense of their own value and that’s what they learn. When my cute toddler tries to jump of high tables, I don’t call him a little shit and ‘discipline’ him with violence, I tell him I’m concerned he’ll hurt himself or someone else, and help him safely down. Which do you think is a better role model for a developing brain?
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Violet,
You are absolutely right!
Another one of my attempts at humor up in smoke…
…again!
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