People tend to chose their church based on their upbringing and how they chose to survive it. If upbringing is healthy then don’t expect anything interesting. If someone chooses a weird church, either one very oppressive and legalistic, or one overly charismatic then you can decode their emotional intelligence. If a person wasn’t allowed to have emotions growing up, then that person might fall in love with the charismatic churches where expression of worship are important, where you speak in tongues and get your emotions out. People who don’t like emotion might do the opposite and go to a legalistic church.
People use churches to put up a facade. People commonly say that Christians are hypocritical, and many downright are, but that’s not what I’m saying. They’re trying to look functional, spiritually mature, like they have it all together.
There’s no way to run from you past. You must bravely accept the sins of your father as your own and work through them. To avoid them is to meet disaster. That’s how many pastors end up in child sex abuse cases.
In one respect, the Christian church in Western countries is seeing great trouble and looks to be failing. There’s a church for every attitude and taste too. In another respect, it’s rebooting. So, you shop for the church that says and does what you want to here. The church in the West has been poor for so long. Currently it caters to the anti-intellectual, common joe, conservative thing. The ideas being taught aren’t always biblical and sometimes downright heretical. The reboot is necessary.
You can see anti-male attitude in the story. There is no understanding or sympathy afforded that boy. That man overruled and said the boy had a behavioral problem. I also can see this attitude in many churches. Just discipline the f~~~ing s~~~ out of him and soon the problem will be gone. Only it doesn’t go away. So, just use more discipline. Lather rinse repeat. We should never go soft on a boy. They’re all pathetic and weak until you make them into a man.
That women definitely deserves her sentence. She should have gotten her s~~~ together before she brought a child into the world. She should have used discernment before she got involved with that jerk. She sacrificed her children for her selfishness. She sacrificed her children for her personality disorder. Just because it says, “dependent,” and she got used doesn’t mean she wasn’t responsible. She’s not a victim. Just because she was abused doesn’t give her a pass. You might say you understand and it’ll be easier to forgive but she still failed to take responsibility for herself and for her unfair past (which is her past, nobody else’s).
That man does seem to demonstrate a radical religious view that’s taken root in Australia. It’s extremely patriarchal and base on Paul Washer a like frauds. They take the view that the man is the head of the household seriously. It’s pretty sick actually. They’re so domineering and even emotionally abusive. It’s just a facade though for the chaos in their heads. It’s an effort to try to stop the poison of their problems from seeping through their systems but there’s no hope. That poison seeps anyways and damages them further. They need therapy. Their lives are doomed to failure.
You must submit to reality. Only then may you live.
Helen be Damned 4 years, 7 months ago.
