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Originally Posted by Lutheran Born
So Mary do you have kids?
Do you beat them?
Where do you hit them?
Do you do it in public?
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Am I detecting a certain amount of objection to the idea of beating children?
What's your spiritual objection to it? Where does that come from? It certainly doesn't come from scriptures or Christian tradition. It's like you made up your own values based on a sense of fairness and mercy.
Children are great manipulators of the spiritually weak. If we didn't have the Bible to keep us strong I'm sure we'd give in from time to time (if not all the time) to the child's favourite theory that they don't need a spank. We'd be wasting time reasoning and negotiating instead of getting on with life and ignoring their pathetic snivelling.
God has reasons for repeatedly telling us to whack children. It's not clear what they are, but I'm not comfortable with ignoring Him because some cherry picking secularists get their panties in a wad over notions of brutality.