Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Dare To Discipline?!
The line between Strict parenting and Abusive parenting is thin and blurry. These kids will never be able to trust other people and will never be able to trust their own judgment in making moral decisions. They will grow dependent on external moral authority and will feel comfortable in strict hierarchical organizations, be it the church, the military, or the GOP. Their moral and intellectual development is arrested and their relationship with other humans (and animals, etc.) will be pathological. They will love force, e.g., guns, football, powerful machines, and war. They will never have enough confidence in humanity to become liberal.
But is that not the point? To produce Perfect Automatons For Jesus (or their perverted image of Jesus, I should say)?
ReplyDeleteWho Would Jesus Beat? Little children, apparently.
Jesusland almost makes Afghanistan under the Taliban look sane...
-- Badtux the WWJB Penguin
One other place where people raised like this feel at home.
ReplyDeleteJail.
Prisons are full of recidivists who are looking in jail for the "structure and discipline" they were raised with.
Needless to say the abuse they suffered as kids played a big part in their becoming criminals to begin with.
Lance, you have a point. I did not think about prisons, but you are absoluetly correct.
ReplyDeleteTux, scroll two posts up for an expanded version of this post (you may recognize some quoted words there ;-) )