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Archae

(46,327 posts)
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:02 PM Jun 2013

Another story making me say "WTF?"

"If you want to be a good Christian, you got to beat your wife!"

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.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/latest-trend-christianity-beating-you

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sinkingfeeling

(51,454 posts)
3. Yep, it's right there in Made-up Stuff in the Bible, 3:14, "And the Lord
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:12 PM
Jun 2013

said, 'Beat your wife in remembrance of me.'"

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
4. I assume the woman knows what she is in for when she marries the twisted fuck...
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:15 PM
Jun 2013

if so, to each his own.
Sad for the kids who are going to grow up with twisted values, tho.

louslobbs

(3,232 posts)
5. Sounds more like a sexual fetish rather than some form of discipline ordained by some God
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:20 PM
Jun 2013

to make them perfect for Jesus. So Jesus wants his worshipers full of bruises and welts in his name and this will somehow please their God and make "her" a better Christian? So when their male child sees this abuse at home, and practices it himself on the playground or in school, what do they say to him about why it's wrong to hit other people, after all, daddy hits mommy all the time and she seems to be ok. WTF if right.
Lou

jollyreaper2112

(1,941 posts)
6. Oh, this is too rich
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:24 PM
Jun 2013

I'm imagining the guy in a leather daddy outfit with a big ol' cross on his codpiece. Cue lyrics to Type O Negative, Christian Woman. She wants to love God. Feel her God deep inside of her.

RKP5637

(67,108 posts)
9. In this church going state, I'll start looking for "Spanking for God" bumper stickers. They already
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 05:41 PM
Jun 2013

have "In God we Trust" license plates upon request, so I imagine a few "Spanking for God" bumper stickers will go good with that ... that is, if they can fit them between the crosses and fish already there.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
10. Not just your wife, your kids to
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 05:47 PM
Jun 2013

remember, 'spare the rod and spoil the child'. Notice that is a ROD and not a belt or paddle. Rebar is a modern day rod. So beat your kids and wife with a staff or a huge stick. Makes them better people according to Proverbs.

Book of Proverbs, 13:24

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