Category: Religious Sadists

The Latest Trend In Christianity: Beating Your Wife For Jesus

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Religious Reich, Religious Right, Religious Right Crazies, Religious Sadism, Religious Sadists

The Latest Trend In Christianity: Beating Your Wife For Jesus

The Latest Trend In Christianity: Beating Your Wife For Jesus

Credit: politicsplus.org

 

It’s just because their husbands love them, and want them to be perfect for Jesus!

On a pain scale of one to 10, Chelsea ranks the epidural-free birth of her child as a six. Her husband’s spankings? Those are an eight.

First, he uses his hands for “warm-up” slaps. Then comes a combination of tools based on the specific infraction. The wooden spoon is the least severe; for the worst rule-breaking—like texting while driving (“It could kill me,” Chelsea admits) or moving money between accounts without his permission—she’ll be hit with something else: a hairbrush, a paddle, or a leather strap.

But this isn’t domestic abuse, Chelsea says. This is for Jesus.

Chelsea and her husband Clint, who asked that I use only their first names, belong to a small subculture of religious couples who practice “Christian Domestic Discipline,” a lifestyle that calls for a wife to be completely submissive to her husband. Referred to as CDD by its followers, the practice often includes spanking and other types corporal punishments administered by husbands—and ostensibly ordained by God.

While the private nature of the discipline makes it difficult to estimate the number of adherents, activity in several online forums suggests a figure in the low thousands. Devotees call CDD an alternative lifestyle and enthusiastically sing its praises; for critics, it’s nothing but domestic abuse by another name.

Clint was in the room while I talked to Chelsea. They do everything together, including running their blog, Learning DD, which chronicles their exploration of domestic discipline. When Chelsea gets flummoxed by a question, she asks Clint for guidance in a voice so high-pitched that it belies her 28 years: “Honey, how long does the spanking usually last?” (About 5 minutes, Clint says.)

He has left bruises, Chelsea says, but it’s rare, and she attributes them to anemia.

You don’t have to be a Christian to practice domestic discipline, although many of its practitioners say they believe that domestic discipline goes hand in hand with their faith. Specifics of the practice vary by couple, though CDDers all seem to follow a few basic principles. Foremost, that the Bible commands a husband to be the head of the household, and the wife must submit to him, in every way, or face painful chastisement.

When a wife breaks her husband’s rules—rolling her eyes, maybe, or just feeling “meh,” as one blogger put it—that can equal punishments which are often corporal but can also be “corner time”; writing lines (think “I will not disobey my master” 1,000 times); losing a privilege like internet access; or being “humbled” by some sort of nude humiliation. Some practice “maintenance spanking,” wherein good girls are slapped on a schedule to remind them who’s boss; some don’t. Some couples keep the lifestyle from their children; others, like CDD blogger Stormy, don’t. “Not only does he spank me with no questions asked for disrespect or attitude in front of them, but I am also required to make an apology to each of them,” she writes.

Jewish Sex Abuse Victim From New Square Speaks Out

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Jewish Sexual Abuse, Religious Sadists

Jewish Sex Abuse Victim From New Square Speaks Out

 

 

Jewish religious community defends a paedophile.

Says that ‘he is the best’ and ‘a nice guy’.

Still working with the kids.

Yossi, who prefers to use only his first name, says he wants to speak out about his ordeal in the hope that other victims of abuse will come forward. (8/29/13)

NEW SQUARE – A shroud of secrecy surrounds the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of New Square. Many of the residents shun the outside world and keep to themselves.

However, a sex abuse victim from the community has spoken exclusively to News 12.

Yossi, who prefers to use only his first name, says he wants to speak out about his ordeal in the hope that other victims of abuse will come forward.

Yossi claims that Herschel Taubenfeld, a teacher in his community, inappropriately touched him three times a week for four months.

The teen asked for help from the head rabbis of New Square who had just set up their own sex crimes unit called the VAAD. The agency told him to see a therapist.

Two months later, Yossi reported the abuse to the Ramapo police. He says that his friends stopped talking to him and treated him like he didn’t exist.

Yossi says his attacker admitted to the crimes, but religious leaders in the community sent Taubenfeld to Israel to obtain his rabbinical ordination. He also says he was offered  $100,000 to keep quiet about the situation, which he refused.

In December 2011, one month after Yossi reported the abuse, Taubenfeld turned himself in. He was charged with 30 misdemeanor counts of forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree sex abuse. However, the rabbi avoided jail time in exchange for six years probation.

According to students, Taubenfeld is still teaching at one of New Square’s largest religious schools.

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Who Rapes Developmentally Disabled Women?

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Rape, Religious Rape, Religious Sadists

A Christian Pastor, Who Else?!
 Apparently, a pastor named Ronald Pyles, raped a developmentally disabled 20-year-old woman. Go figure.

Ronald Pyles, 59, and the pastor of the Victory Harvest Ministry in North Jackson, is facing charges of two counts of rape and gross sexual imposition for raping a 20-year-old developmentally disabled woman at his shelter in 2010. 

Prosecutors said the alleged victim had been living at the Victory Harvest Ministry following the death of a relative. Charges said the rapes occurred during a six-month period between October 2010 and April 2011.

Um… I think Pyles is on his way to now prison too. It’s been a hard week for pastors. Pyles ws convicted on one found of rape and one count of gross sexual imposition.

The victim testified.

Other witnesses included the woman’s case workers from the mental retardation agency and children’s services.

“I think that she was very ashamed of things that had happened. This was a man that she really admired, this was a man that she looked to as a father figure,” one case worker testified.

I’m pretty sure than when a developmentally disabled woman gets on the stand and says her pastor raped her, the defendant is a dead man. Prison will be hard on Ronald Ryles; very hard.

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Religious Fanatic Slaughters His Family in Moscow

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Religious Insanity, Religious Lunatics, Religious Nuts, Religious Psychos, Religious Reich, Religious Right, Religious Sadists

Religious fanatic slaughters his family in Moscow

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The Moscow police investigate the triple murder, which was committed in Eastern Birulyovo on the southern outskirts of Moscow in the evening of November 19th.  The crime was committed in less than two weeks after the massacre in the office of a pharmaceutical company. Igor Televinov, 40, who could possibly be a mentally unbalanced religious fanatic, first killed his nine-year-old son, Alexander, and then six-year old daughter, Anna. Afterwards, the man killed his mother when she came back home from a walk. The man stabbed the three victims to death. Apparently, the victims could not show any resistance, Life News said.

After the murder, the man took the time to write a note, in which he asked to sell the apartment and bury the children with this money, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper wrote.

The man wanted to kill himself in the end, but he also had to kill his wife first. When she came home from work, he met her on the doorstep and said that he had already sent his mother and children to heaven. The man offered his wife to follow them: he slashed the woman’s throat and face with the same knife.

The wounded woman somehow managed to escape from the apartment. All covered in blood, she rushed into her neighbor’s, shouting: “Lock the door!” The women called the police and an ambulance. The wounded woman was taken to hospital, her life is out of danger.

Having entered the apartment, where the tragedy occurred, law-enforcement officers, doctors and investigators saw the following picture. The bodies of the two children and their grandmother were lying in pools of blood. All the victims had their throats slit, their hands were folded crosswise on their chests, the little girl and the murderer’s mother had icons and burning candles put in between their fingers. The dead boy had an icing lamp in his hands, Vesti reports.

The man was arrested; he tried to show resistance to police, apparently staying in an inadequate condition. A criminal case was filed into the “murder of two or more persons” and “attempted murder.”

The man was unemployed. He was sick, he began to gain weight and would rarely go out. His wife worked in a barbershop. The woman was spending much of her salary on medications for her husband

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Anti-Equality Christian Lawyer Indicted On Federal Child Pornography Charges

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Christain Liars, Christian Bigots, Christian Child Abuse, Christian Hypocrites, Religious Sadists

Christian attorney indicted on federal child pornography charges
By Arturo Garcia
Lisa Biron via FB page

Federal agents arrested a Christian New Hampshire lawyer Saturday and accused her of allegedly driving a teen girl to Canada and cajoling her into allowing her to film her having sex.

The Concord Monitor reported that Biron was arrested by FBI officials Friday before a scheduled hearing on child pornography possession charges stemming from an Oct. 9 arrest.

The federal indictment against Biron — who has been linked to Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing lawyers group that says on its website it advocates for “religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family” — includes charges of not only possessing child pornography, but five counts of sexually exploiting a child and one count of transportation with intent to engage in child pornography.

According to the New Hampshire Union Leader, Police had been investigating Biron since September, when they received a tip that she had child pornography on her computer. That led to the Oct. 9 arrest, and seven subsequent counts of child pornography possession at the district level.

But the FBI pursued the search further, and federal prosecutors are also accusing Biron of driving the girl to Ontario, Canada, and recording four digital videos of her having sex and taking a digital photograph between May 25 and May 28.

A U.S. District Court judge ordered Biron to be held without bail in part due to violations of bail conditions from the earlier charges. Biron was found to have disobeyed orders to only use her laptop for work purposes and to not have any weapons; agents discovered 200 rounds of ammunition, though no gun, at her home.

[Image via Lisa Byron Facebook community page]
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1u6v9)

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Pastor Sodomizes Boy

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Pastor Sodomizes Boy, Religious Kooks, Religious Lunatics, Religious Psychos, Religious Sadism, Religious Sadists, Religious Sex Abuse

Pastor Sodomizes Boy

Religious Sex Abuse

Clergy Sexual Abuse

Priests Sexual Abuse

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Gay Man Enslaved By Sadistic Christian Cultists

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Religious Lunatics, Religious Money Racket, Religious Morons, Religious Nazis, Religious Nuts, Religious Psychos, Religious Reich, Religious Sadists, Religious Terror

NORTH CAROLINA: Man says church confined him because he was gay

SAM JANE WHALEY WORD OF FAITH FEL

Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, led by Sam and Jane Whaley,

has been accused of enforcing extensive control over members.

 

Written by Michael Gordon

 

A 22-year-old man has accused his former Rutherford County church of holding him for four months against his will while he was physically and emotionally abused because he is gay.

Michael Lowry filed a complaint in February against Word of Faith Fellowship Church, a nondenominational Christian congregation in Spindale that has made national headlines with some of its practices.

In a statement given to a sheriff’s department investigator last week, Lowry said he was kept in a church building from Aug. 1 to Nov. 19, 2011. He said he was knocked unconscious during his first day of confinement.

Lowry’s former pastor, Jane Whaley, said Sunday that all of his allegations are “lies.”

Whaley said Lowry was not held or beaten. She said the church only learned that he was gay when his family did – after watching a news report by an Asheville television station Thursday.

Lowry said he first told his family and church leaders of his sexual orientation when he was 15 or 16. That set off years of harassment and abuse, he said, as church members tried to expel the demon that they believed caused his homosexuality.

A Hickory advocacy group has called for a federal investigation.

Brent Childers, executive director of Faith in America, said in a statement that Lowry’s case is “the most disturbing I’ve encountered” in the six years he’s worked with the group. The nonprofit addresses what it describes as “the harm” caused gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people by “misguided religious teaching.”

If Lowry’s account is accurate, Childers said, “there’s no question that these actions constitute a hate crime.”

Last week, a friend of Lowry who is also a former church member filed charges against four Word of Faith members after a confrontation near the church, court records indicate. The four, all listed under the church’s address, are part of the Word of Faith security team and were charged with false imprisonment and misdemeanor stalking.

DA investigating

Rutherford County District Attorney Brad Greenway said the case is being investigated and it’s too early to say if it will reach a grand jury.

“We’ll continue to investigate, talk to some other people, and then make a decision,” he said Sunday.

Sam and Jane Whaley started Word of Faith in 1979, and the couple have been running it continuously since 1985. Jane Whaley says the church now has 750 members. It operates from a 35-acre complex, 65 miles west of Charlotte.

Church leaders also run several businesses and the church is politically active. A decade ago, Sam Whaley gave the opening prayer in the U.S. House at the request of then U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor, an Asheville Republican.

Word of Faith has also been accused of enforcing extensive control over its congregation.

Former members interviewed by the Observer in 2000 say they were told where to live, where to work, what to read, how to dress or even when it was OK to have sex with their spouses.

Lowry says many of those controls continue today.

Word of Faith also practices “blasting,” a form of hands-on, high-pitched, screaming prayer, a ritual that has landed it on “Inside Edition” and YouTube. The church, according to its website, also doesn’t celebrate “pagan holidays” ranging from birthdays to Christmas.

Word of Faith was investigated twice in the late 1990s for its treatment of children, and later sued the local Department of Social Services in connection with what is now referred to on its website as “the persecution.”

Whaley said the church has been exonerated of all allegations.

Lowry was born into Word of Faith, and his parents and two brothers remain members.

He said he hoped to be trained by the church to become a minister. But there was a problem: Lowry said he has known since puberty that he was gay.

He had always been active in the church, but said he became increasingly uncomfortable living under constant scrutiny and watching how children were disciplined.

About six years ago, when he said he told his family and Jane Whaley he was gay, Lowry said he became a target of those same methods.

Lowry: ‘It was jail’

His dissatisfaction with the church had deepened by summer 2011. On Aug. 1, 2011, he said he was taken by church members to the Word of Faith complex and placed in a building with other men and boys having trouble at home.

“The doors were locked, it was jail,” he said. “You weren’t allowed to speak to your family. Many of the men had wives and children but they weren’t able to communicate with them.” Blastings were common, he said.

Also on Aug. 1, according to court records, Lowry took a shower at the church, during which his handlers accused him of masturbating. He told investigators that he was roughed up and eventually knocked unconscious.

Lowry said he was allowed to leave in November when he made it clear to the church “that God is telling me it’s time to go. I don’t want to be told what to do anymore.”

Jane Whaley says Lowry stayed in what amounts to a dormitory, not because he was confined but because he’d been thrown out of his house by his parents.

Church: Lowry was free to leave

Those who stayed there were free to come and go, she said. Because of his behavior, Whaley said, Lowry was eventually asked to leave.

Asked why Lowry would lie, Whaley said he had been talked into filing his complaint by former church members who held grudges and had even threatened her life.

She said the church believes in “strong prayer,” of laying on hands. That prayer is useless, she said, unless the subject takes part.

“We want to serve Jesus,” she said. “We don’t want to be hypocrites. If this church is not for you, people leave.”

When Lowry left, he moved in with relatives in Michigan. He is now staying at an undisclosed location with a friend, he said, to avoid church harassment.

Lowry said he came back to Spindale last week to follow up with his complaint and to visit the church and other sites from his past “so I could realize there was nothing to fear.”

Nancy Burnette of Boiling Springs, who met Lowry in January and has since become his friend, said Lowry has often expressed frustration at the pace of the investigation. She said she called the department herself, urging investigators along.

Rutherford County Sheriff Chris Francis could not be reached for comment.

Thursday night, the Asheville television station ran its report on the case.

Friday night, Greenway and sheriff’s investigators talked with Lowry for about three hours.

The investigation has been slowed, the district attorney said, because Lowry had been hard to reach after moving out of state.

Gordon: 704-358-5095

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/10/22/3613469/man-says-nc-church-confined-him.html

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Religious Sadists Condone Torture | Catholics and Co-Religious Rate Highest In Approving Torture

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Catholic Sadism, Religious Sadists

Reminder, of recent Polling indicating Catholics and Evangelicals highest in torture approval!

Poll: Most Evangelicals and Catholics Condone Torture in Some Instances

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

Check out this fascinating new graphic analysis from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

It shows that most white evangelicals and Roman Catholics, along with most frequent churchgoers, say it’s OK to “sometimes” or “often” use torture on suspected terrorists. A slight majority of mainline Christians and religiously unaffiliated Americans, meanwhile, say torturing suspected terrorists could “rarely” or “never” be justified:

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Romney The Abuser | Mormon Sociopath

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Mitt Romney, Mormon Sadist, Mormonism, Religious Sadists, The Age of Blasphemy

Romney’s Past Cruelties Extend Beyond Animal Abuse

Via:- Don Hamel

The Washington Post today tells a story that opens on a scene that’s almost cinematic in its beauty; Cranbrook Prep School, Michigan in springtime. It is, by all accounts, a beautiful campus befitting the status of its privileged student body. Cranbrook boasts many wealthy and powerful alumni, including Mitt Romney, whose father was then the Governor of Michigan.

Many of Romney’s friends from his school days paint him as a ‘prankster’ and his wife Ann publicly gushes over what a, “Wild and crazy man” she fell in love with during her days at Cranbrook’s ’sister school,’ Kingswood. But some of his schoolmates don’t remember him quite as endearing. There are stories of institutional racism and faculty endorsed homophobia, that seem almost commonplace in stories of prep-schools of the era.

But far more troubling than hurtful nick-names or sophomoric cat-calls is the story of Jon Lauber. Lauber was a year behind Romney, and described as “soft-spoken,” although that’s perhaps due to his being, “teased for his non-conformity and presumed homosexuality.”

We call that ‘bullying’ nowadays.

At any rate Jon Lauber fell victim to young Mitt’s ire when he returned to campus after school break with his hair dyed blonde and hanging down over one eye. Romney reportedly told his best friend, “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” Romney’s anger over another boys haircut didn’t subside over time, and three days later he recruited a group of boys and went after Jon Lauber, he of the offending locks.

What happened next was cruel, brutal and public. At least five former students confirm the story of Mitt Romney and a gang of friends attacking Lauber, wrestling him to the floor and hacking his hair off with a scissors. It was an incident that stayed with Lauber (now deceased) his entire life.

There are further recollections of Romney’s cruel treatment of an elderly teacher, and more homophobic japes, but his outrage and subsequent attack of Jon Lauber stands out in its hatefullness. What a senseless, unnecessary reaction to something that was clearly of no concern to him.

There will be those who will instantly dismiss this as an example of a ’boys will be boys’ type indiscretion. But Mitt Romney’s seeming revulsion over someone he perceived as different, coupled with the his actions to punish the boy, paint a picture of a person with little empathy or concern; the kind of person who could thoughtlessly strap an animal to the roof of a car and drive hundreds of miles. It is no wonder that man like that, who never needed to work a day in his life, furthered his personal fortune by dismantling the businesses and jobs of thousands of others.

The American people need someone who can understand and empathize with the difficulties many of us face, Mitt Romney is clearly not capable of being that man.

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Petition US President: Deny Entry to Criminal Christian Sadist

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Christian Sadist, Human Rights, Human Rights Abuse, Religious Sadism, Religious Sadists, Religious Terror

The President of the United States: Deny entry to the USA for Helen Ukpabio

The President of the United States: Deny entry to the USA for Helen Ukpabio

About this PetitionPetition LetterPetition Updates

Why This Is Important

Helen Ukpabio is a “Christian” preacher from Nigeria who has been spreading the fear of child witches in Nigeria. She uses her sermons, teachings and prophetic declarations to incite hatred, intolerance and persecution of alleged witches and wizards, usually children. Thousands of children have been killed, tortured, or maimed by acid, fire, or other acts of senseless violence. The surviving children are usually left homeless and are preyed upon by others.

She has a simple diagnostic tools that can detect a witch:
“A child under two years of age that cries at night or deteriorates in health is an agent of Satan.”

These condemned children are regularly subjected to:

Abandonment, isolation, discrimination, and ostracization from the community.

They are often disgraced publicly, usually by being chained and tortured in churches in order to extract confessions.

Many are murdered in horribly cruel ways: burned alive, bathed in acid, fatally poisoned (usually with a local toxic berry).

Exploiting local superstitious beliefs, particularly those related to spiritual or demonic possession or witchcraft, Helen Ukpabio’s organization has grown exponentially throughout Nigeria and West Africa since its foundation.

In March 2012, Helen Ukpabio is scheduled to hold a 12 day “revival” in Houston, Texas at the invitation of Glorious Praise Ministries.

The US Department of State needs to be urged to do the right thing and deny Helen Ukpabio’s entry into the United States on grounds of her human rights violations.

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Gingrich To Force Women to Birth Rapists’ Babies

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Newt Gingrich, Newt Gingrich is a Vicious Monster, Religious Fascists, Religious Sadists, The Age of Blasphemy

Gingrich: I’ll Force Women to Bear Rapists’ Babies

The Republican Party’s monstrous anti-choice positions
Via:- Charles Johnson

If anyone ever asks again why I left … no, ran away from the right, here’s one of the main reasons: the utter heartlessness of a party so morally bankrupt that it would force women to bear the babies of rapists and incestuous family members. Gingrich: I ‘Wouldn’t Make Exceptions’ For Abortions In Cases Of Rape Or Incest.

With Gingrich now changing his previously stated views, the majority of the Republican candidates for President are onboard with this monstrous position — a position not arrived at through reason or rationality, but through religious fanaticism. Bad craziness indeed.

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Rick Perry Embraces Sadistic Anti-Choice Fanatics

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Abortion Politics, Religious Insanity, Religious Kooks, Religious Lunatics, Religious Right, Religious Sadism, Religious Sadists, Republican Insanity, Republican Nazis, Rick Perry, Right Wing, Right Wing Crackpots, Right Wing Crazies, Right Wing Extremism, Right Wing Nuts

Rick Perry Joins the Heartless Anti-Choice Fanatics

Via Charles Johnson

It’s horrifying to hear almost all the GOP presidential candidates proudly saying that victims of rape or incest should be forced to give birth to an attacker’s child. There’s nothing that makes the utter heartlessness of this fanatical agenda more evident, and now Rick Perry (who previously supported rape/incest exceptions) has announced that he’s a monster like the rest of them: Perry changes stance to oppose all abortions.

CNN – Texas Gov. Rick Perry revealed a hardening in his stance on abortion Tuesday, telling a crowd in Iowa that he opposed abortions in all cases, including when a woman had been raped or the victim of incest.

Previously, Perry had not opposed the procedure in cases of rape or incest, or when the mother’s life was threatened.

Responding to a question about the change in position, Perry said, “You’re seeing a transformation.”

Perry told the crowd at his campaign stop that the decision came after watching a documentary on abortion produced by former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

“That transformation was after watching the DVD, ‘The Gift of Life,’” Perry said. “And I really started giving some thought about the issue of rape and incest. And some powerful, some powerful stories in that DVD.”

Perry said a woman who appeared in the movie who said she was a product of rape moved him to change his mind about abortion.

“She said, ‘My life has worth.’ It was a powerful moment for me,” Perry said.

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Christian Child-Rearing Manual Leads to Child Abuse, Even Deaths

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Religion, Religion Destroys the Brain, Religion Kills, Religious barbarity, Religious Fundamentalism, Religious Hypocrisy, Religious Insanity, Religious Kooks, Religious Psychos, Religious Sadism, Religious Sadists, Religious Violence

Christian Child-Rearing Manual Is A Frequent Factor In Child Abuse, Even Deaths
                By Susie Madrak

So many people were shocked by the video of that Texas judge hitting his child, but I wasn’t. I’ve been reading for a long time about the abusive child-rearing practices of extreme Christian fundamentalists, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that girl’s father thought he was merely doing his duty and “raising a godly child.”

The books of Michael and Debi Pearl are frequently implicated in that kind of abuse. Here’s a heart-wrenching post from a reader over at the No Longer Quivering blog, started by a woman who left the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement:

When the Pearls’ methods failed, I got stuck on method a. Blame yourself.  I re-read To Train Up a Child. When I knew I had it right, I hit harder. Prayed harder. Did the whole disciplinary routine smiling from ear to ear and cooing like a dove. My babies acted freaked out by my grin (it was a lot like Debi Pearl’s vacuous, huge grin in the Tuchman interview) and were enraged by my efforts to “lovingly reconcile” with them after spankings. They kept up the fight. At this point, I think I would have admitted to myself that something was wrong with this whole child-training method and stopped torturing the toddlers all day to no avail. If you have to be cruel to get the Pearl method to work on some kids, it’s wrong. I had a husband, however, who was firmly convinced that Pearl was right. He went right for the b. and c. options: hit harder and blame the kid.

Options b. and c. are hard to do without getting angry. They are hard to do without leaving bruises, especially since Pearl discipline is cumulative: faced with entrenched rebellion, you are supposed to hit repeatedly and in the same areas. My ex-husband got angry with the kids for thwarting the Pearl method, but he remained coldly self-controlled. He also left bruises. A lot of bruises.

Why didn’t I stop him? I finally did, but early in my marriage I was paralyzed by fear and brainwashed by bad teaching. We both feared raising ungodly kids. We were looking for confirmation that some part of this system worked, and my ex-husband began to get results. The children flinched when he even moved. Cowered when he reached for a spanking implement. Had semi-seizures on the carpet following “biblical correction.” We got compliance with our wishes. Eventually, there wasimmediate and unquestioning compliance. My ex-husband had quelled the rebellion in three kids. He had created unfocused, freaked-out little robots who obeyed. The joy and the peace that was supposed to suffuse our home according to Pearl, we thought we could dispense with. Maybe it would come later; the Pearls are a little vague on where the peace and love should come into the process, just as they are a little vague on how you can keep “chastising” repeatedly with progressively increased force in the same places without leaving bruises.

To Train Up a Child is a manual of progressive violence against children. Not only are there no stopgaps to prevent child abuse, the book is a mandate to use implements to inflict increasingly intense pain in the face of continued disobedience. The part about not causing injury is vague and open to interpretation, but the part about never backing down or shirking your parental duty to spank harder and harder is crystal clear. The Pearls’ teachings will lead, inescapably, to extremely strong-willed kids being abused and sometimes murdered by fundamentalist parents who are determined to “break” those children.  The Pearls’ defenders will say, “Oh, they took it to an extreme and should have known better.” If anyone knows better than to keep inflicting more severe discipline on an intractable child, they can only apply that knowledge by scuttling the Pearls’ sadistic teaching and being more reasonable.

Whenever I read stories like this, I think of a lovely young woman I once interviewed, someone who grew up on the streets with her schizophrenic mother. By the time she was 16, she was pregnant. Fortunately, by the time she was 18, she’d been taken into a new program for young mothers that essentially re-parented them: Taught them to budget, balance a checkbook, plan meals, discipline children. She told me she was deeply haunted by guilt over having hit her toddler: “It wasn’t that I didn’t care about her – I did. I hit her to make her behave. I thought that’s what good parents did, and I wanted to be a good parent.”

That’s the sad part of all this violence. For whatever twisted reason, religious or psychological, many parents still believe they’re only doing what good parents do.

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Girl accused of blasphemy for a spelling error

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Blasphemy Laws, Religious Crazies, Religious Fundamentalism, Religious Psychos, Religious Sadists, Uncategorized

Girl accused of blasphemy for a spelling error
Published: September 25, 2011

Eighth-grader expelled from school; mother forced to move from city.

ABBOTTABAD: It may have been a mere misplaced dot that led to accusations of blasphemy against a Christian eighth-grader, whose miniscule error led to her expulsion from school and uproar amongst local religious leaders.

Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) colony Havelian, erroneously misspelt a word in an Urdu exam while answering a question on a poem written in praise of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). The word in question was ‘laanat’ instead of ‘naat’ – an easy error for a child to make, as the written versions of the words are similar.

According to the school administration and religious leaders who took great exception to the hapless student’s mistake, the error is ‘serious’ enough to fall within the realm of blasphemy, Saturday.

Spelling out her punishment

On Thursday, Faryal’s Urdu teacher was collecting the answer sheets from her students when she noticed the apparently offensive word on her pupil’s sheet. The teacher, Fareeda Bibi, reportedly summoned the Christian girl, scolded her and beat her. Her punishment, however, did not end here. When Faryal’s class fellows learnt of the alleged blasphemy, the teacher brought the principal’s notice to the matter, who further informed the school management.

In the meanwhile, the news spread throughout the colony. The next day, male students of the POF colony school as well as certain religious elements took out a rally, demanding the registration of a criminal case against the eighth-grader and her expulsion from the area.

Prayer leaders within the community also condemned the incident in their Friday sermons, asking the colony’s administration to not only take action against Faryal but her entire family. In the wake of the increasing tensions, Managing Director POF Colony Havelian Asif Siddiki called a meeting of colony-based ulemas and school teachers to discuss the situation. The girl and her mother were asked to appear before the meeting, where they explained that it was a mere error, caused by a resemblance between the two words. The two immediately apologised, adding that Faryal had no malicious intentions.

In a move that was apparently meant to pacify the religious elements clamouring for action against the teenage ‘blasphemer’, the POF administration expelled her from the school on Saturday. Faryal was not the only one who got in trouble for her spelling error, however, as her mother, Sarafeen Bhatti, who was a staff nurse at the POF Hospital Havelian for several years, was immediately transferred to POF Wah Cantonment Hospital.

Decision applauded

While talking to The Express Tribune, Maulana Alla Dita Khateeb of Gol Masjid praised the decision of the POF colony administration, claiming that he had personally seen the answer sheet in question. He further went on to say that he had met the girl himself, who had apologised for the word used in error.  Asked whether the incident still fell within the realm of blasphemy and whether Faryal deserved expulsion when she had misspelt the word unintentionally, Khateeb said that although he was unclear about the intentions of the girl, the word she had used was sacrilegious.

The managing director of POF Colony was not available for comment.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 25th, 2011.

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ICC Urged to Probe Vatican for Sexual Abuse, Cover-Up

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Catholic Crimes Against Humanity, Catholic Predators, Catholic Priests, Catholic Sadists, Catholic Sex Abuse, Criminal Popes, Papal Crimes, Pope, Religious Sadists, Sex Crimes, Sexual Abuse, Vatcan Sexual Abuse, Vatican, Vatican Crimes, Vatican Crimes Against Humanity

Via “Democracy Now”
ICC Urged to Probe Vatican for Sexual Abuse, Cover-Up

Two U.S. groups are asking the International Criminal Court to investigate Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity over the alleged cover-up of rampant sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy. In a new complaint, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests say the Vatican has “enjoyed absolute impunity” for failing to prevent and punish rape and sexual assault. The ICC filing is being described as the most comprehensive international effort to date to hold the Vatican accountable for sexual abuse.

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CENSORED VIDEO! Religious Jew Beating Daughter!

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Jewish Abusers, Jewish Sadist, Religion, Religious Insanity, Religious Kooks, Religious Sadists

Censorship: YouTube Pulls Video Of Chabadnik Beating Child

Censorship

YouTube/Google again shows that it cannot be trusted. A security camera video from the Western Wall in Jerusalem showing a French Chabad-Lubavitch hasid brutally beating his daughter, made public in Israel and which has NO copyright, has been removed by YouTube for “violating” its “terms of service.”

YouTube is at it again, censoring a perfectly legitimate video that happens to make an organization some of its censors allegedly affiliate with look bad.

I posted on the video here at 12:46 am this morning, embedding the YouTube video that had been posted there a few hours earlier.

I also asked a reader to rip a copy of the video for me, because I was positive Chabad would have it censored within a few hours, because Google has a history of banning sites from its AdWords program that post legitimate news stories that are embarrassing for Chabad, and of deleting YouTube videos that do the same.

Shortly after that reader ripped the video, I went to bed.

I woke up to a phone call from another reader telling me the original video had been yanked by YouTube.

[Update 3:10 pm CDT – The reader who updated the video to YouTube and Vimeo for me just told me that the adults only warning and the requirement to prove your age before viewing the video is more Google censorship. Thereader did not restrict his upload in any way.]

YouTube’s excuse for this censorship will be that the video is violent.

There is no blood and the 12-year-old girl – while shaken and upset – is still walking and functioning normally after after the beating, and the man is seen being detained by bystanders and then being arrested by police.

The video was aired by Israel’s Channel 2 – which identifies it as security camera video – and has circulated widely in Israel since it aired late yesterday. It has no copyright.

It was uploaded to YouTube by an Israeli, and it’s description in Hebrew is as follows:

עבריין ‘חרדי’ (צרפתי) מכה את בתו בת ה-12 בברוטליות, בכותל המערבי לעיני עוברים ושבים, וסיכן את חייה,

אנשים כאלה צריך לסרס!!!

This video is no more violent than news video shown across the US every day on broadcast TV – and which is often posted on YouTube, as well.

YouTube’s real reason for removing this video is the same, I think, as it was when it removed IDF videos taken during Operation Cast Lead and released by the IDF to dispel lies told about it by Hamas, or videos right wing pundit Michelle Maklkin made.

Google wasn’t enforcing its policy – it was censoring someone or some organization or, in these cases, some country it’s censors doesn’t like and some pundit its censors don’t like, because none of these videos came even remotely close to violating any of YouTube’s terms of service.

YouTube’s censors clearly dislike Israel’s government and army, and that dislike prompts their actions.

YouTube’s censors clearly dislike Michelle Malkin’s opinions (as do I), and that dislike prompts their actions.

In our case today, the video puts one group of people in very bad light – Chabad. Because on this video you see a Chabad hasid beating his 12-year-old daughter for no apparent reason, and in a way that is far more severe than the law would allow.

It is child abuse.

The security camera video of the incident serves two purposes beyond news – it puts this man’s community, friends and relatives on notice, making it far easier for police and child welfare to protect the child, the man’s other children, and his spouse and, secondly, it educates the haredi community about child abuse.

But YouTube cares nothing about that.

Hundreds of girls could be beaten just like this every day. YouTube’s censors would cluck and moan about the damage done to children by brutal men.

But the moment a video of an incident hits YouTube and makes one of the censor’s pet organizations or pet causes look bad, the video is pulled, censored.

What does that mean?

It means the girls’ voices are censored.

It means the removal of the best tool these tiny victims have to protect themselves and others.

And it is a dream come true for the men who beat, rape and abuse, a present to them of infinate value from Google, Inc.

This disgusting behavior permeates through all of Google, which behaves exactly the same way with its AdWords program and DoubleClick, and with every other service it offers – except, it claims, with search.

When the US Department of Justice serves Google’s founders and its CEO with subpoenas, when they become personally liable for their company’s unethical, illegal actions, perhaps this politically minded censorship will stop.

Until then, when you see Sergey Brin in a coffee house or on the street, don’t view him as a Silicon Valley rock star.

View Brin, Schmidt, and Page and the rest of Google’s board for what they really are: the people who leads the public book burning of some classic of literature that, nonetheless, offends them.

In fact, here’s a list of the members of Google’s board.

Make sure to let them know that you don’t appreciate Google’s censorship, that you have asked your Congressperson and Senators to ask the Department of Justice to investigate Google.

Larry Page, Google Inc.
Eric E. Schmidt, Google Inc.
Sergey Brin, Google Inc.
L. John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
John L. Hennessy, Stanford University
Ann Mather
Paul S. Otellini, Intel Corporation
K. Ram Shriram, Sherpalo Ventures
Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University

Thankfully, Israeli police arrested the man, determined that he has French citizenship, and deported him. They also notified French police and Interpol.

But the crime was committed in Israel and Israel chose to deport rather than prosecute the criminal.

That means he is probably free now in France, and able to beat his children oand his wife whenever the urge strikes, unless child welfare in France has stepped in strongly – but that does not appear to be the case.

That’s where you come in.

Show this video to every Chabad rabbi you know, especially if you are in France. Make sure that they understand that you care about this girl and that you want them to take steps inside the community to help protect her, her siblings and he mother.

If you know this man, do even more. Show the video to his parents and siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles.

Show it to the TV stations in his hometown and to the newspapers.

Make sure that he is exposed.

A man like this cannot live in a household with children, because the children will never be safe if he does.

Exposing him can make his removal from the household possible.

Here’s the video, ripped at my request by an FM reader, and reposted on YouTube. If this is also censored by Google then you will have an even stronger case that Google should to be broken up:

And here’s the same video, ripped and reposted by the same FM reader on Vimeo:

Israel’s Channel 2 Report.

Preacher implicated in torture

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Religious Sadists

Friday, January 14, 2011

Preacher implicated in torture

“OKAKU – A 33-year-old woman and her 15-year-old daughter were seriously injured after their relatives allegedly tortured them with an electrical wire that they connected to a car battery with the intention to extract a confession from them about a cellphone that had gone missing from the culprits.

Martha Hamutenya from Omakolombongo village of Okaku Constituency and her daughter, Indila Ikumwa, were treated at Oshakati Intermediate Hospital with burnt wounds last week.The two were tortured by their relatives allegedly on the verbal instructions of Hamutenya’s aunt who is also a preacher at the Anglican Church. The relatives allegedly accused the mother and daughter of having stolen a cellphone. Three relatives, a woman and two men, were arrested and charged with assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

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