Christians are Weird as F*ck
Thousands of years of history proves it.
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There were many things we were taught that were sin that are laughable. As I go back in my soul to various times, these come to the surface. One that was a WTF moment for me was our youth minister telling us that biting our fingernails was sinful. His justification for it was that it was an unnatural act that gave us pleasure!
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I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. [Anne Rice on why she quit being Christian, 2010]
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A Facebook page devoted to collecting articles and videos of the harm that is caused by religion and its followers.
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Pearl’s methods include making children who are challenged with potty training take cold baths, denying food to disobedient children, and whipping them with quarter-inch plumbing line. Pearl sees nothing wrong with applying his techniques to infants. One expert recently denounced Pearl’s techniques as interfering with child development. Most alarming, some children have been seriously abused by adults who were followers of Pearl. Three children have been killed.
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The most recent incident of a homeschooler following the Pearl’s advice to dire consequences are the Schatz family who, according to CBS Crimesider, were said to:
beat their 7-year-old daughter to death with quarter-inch plastic tubing because she mispronounced a word. They say the girl’s parents held her down and whipped her for hours causing massive tissue damage that resulted in her death.
And, there have been other known cases in which a child has suffered in the name of To Train Up A Child’s advice. Sean Paddock of Raleigh, NC died on February 26, 2006 after being beaten with the same kind of plastic tubing. But, when he did not change his behavior after the whippings, his mother wrapped him tightly in blankets, and he suffocated. He was just 4 years old.
Both families have one common thread: No Greater Joy Ministries of Michael and Debi Pearl who wrote the book To Train Up A Child. In the book they speak of what they refer to as “the sensible application of the Biblical rod,” referring to the scripture in Proverbs 13:24 that reads: ”Spare the rod, spoil the child.” The Pearls go on dishing out their form of “discipline” and will continue giving advice to homeschoolers and anyone who will listen even to the point of death of a child with no apologies.
In further response to critics of their advice, and in the Pearl’s own words:
Even my chickens are laughing … well, actually it more like cackling, because they just laid another organic egg for my breakfast and they know that it was that same piece of ¼ inch plastic supply line that trained the dogs not to eat chicken….
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Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”—1 Timothy 2:11-14
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Jessica Valenti’s (author of The Purity Myth) reaction to purity ball founder Randy Wilson’s statement saying the events have nothing to do with virginity. Because purity balls are WEIRD as F*CK.
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It’s shit like this that made me stay a virgin til I was 25. Sexual freedom isn’t a BAD thing, Joe White.
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Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt. She lusted after their genitals as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions. (Ezekiel 23:19-20 NET)
