HC

http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/index.php?id=72

Article called the abusive husband.

She uses I Peter 3 saying that women need to just hush and take it! Don’t ask for help! If you leave your marriage due to safety issues – your children will not be saved! LOL she also says if you ignore it your kids will be JUST FINE!

Her husband added a page at the end:

But if your husband has sexually molested the children, you should approach him with it. If he is truly repentant (not just exposed) and is willing to seek counseling, you may feel comfortable giving him an opportunity to prove himself, as long as you know the children are safe. If there is any thought that they are not safe, or if he is not repentant and willing to seek help, then go to the law and have him arrested. Stick by him, but testify against him in court. Have him do about 10 to 20 years, and by the time he gets out, you will have raised the kids, and you can be waiting for him with open arms of forgiveness and restitution. Will this glorify God? Forever. You ask, “What if he doesn’t repent even then?” Then you will be rewarded in heaven equal to the martyrs, and God will have something to rub in the Devil’s face.

I can’t believe these people actually have a following!

I doubt anyone feels bashed or criticized, they are adults.
I can’t speak for everyone who has spoken up, if you are sorry people have been abused then condoning the Pearls methods isn’t being sorry at all, it’s buying into a pseudo-biblical money making scheme that has gotten the Pearls into trouble and will get them into trouble again.

How we treat the weakest members of our society speaks volumes about our love. The Pearls are extremists, falling on the far side of what you seem to think is liberalized parenting.
Using peoples fears, and insecurities to make money and teach them wrong ideas about God is not something readers who have expressed themselves here care to tolerate. The Pearl’s program is a cultural anomaly, and for the Pearls to disavow their extremism has anything to do with peoples difficulties is shameful and a sorry sight.
So no, I doubt anyone here is prepared to re-evaluate this level of grandstanding extremism in God’s name, nor would they feel criticized.

A child is dead.
More could die.

That’s enough.

Say no to any kind of religion!

Spare the Quarter – Inch Plumbing Supply Line, Spoil the Child
http://beepbeepitsme.blogspot.com/2006/08/spare-quarter-inch-plumbing-supply.html

When people commit acts of violence out of weakness, it is possible to sympathise with them and to help them change. But when people try to pretend that their weakness is a strength, it is hard to know what to do. In feigning strength they have become inhuman – they have lost their capacities to love, to admit that they can be wrong, and to ask for help, and have therefore gone beyond our reach.

I saw an interesting film a while back, called Dogville. The people in this film lived in a small village, and one day an outsider (played by Nicole Kidman) turned up. Over time, the villagers started to abuse the outsider, out of weakness and ignorance masquerading as justice and concern.

Eventually it turned out that the family of the abused character were in the mob. When they came to find their daughter, their response to seeing her abuse was to kill everyone in the village.

Now, obviously, I do not think that we should kill anyone, including people who abuse their children. But I think that some people have gone beyond our reach, and have to be written off. In my wildest flights of fancy I wish that someone would come along and remove all of these people from the Earth – take away those who think that they can put things right with their own anger. But this is also a weakness, and one that I must overcome. Perhaps abusers of this sort can never be helped, but the best that we can do is to resist them and to lead by a better example.

Unfortunately, in this particular case, the abuse is directed at children from behind closed doors. This is shameful and sad.

Yes, religion can harm, I appreciate you speaking up with others including those of faith, those without, and those inbetween who know abuse and dysfunction when they read it or see it and step up to speak out against it.

It’s pretty apparent the Pearls has the smarts to use the insecurity of others to make piles of money, he is unbalanced in every sense most of us understand that. If he wasn’t using religion as his hook, he’d probably use something else.

Fred Phelps and his family don’t lack smarts either, do they?