Better to have a millstone tied around your neck and thrown into the depths of the sea

Than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

This story has grieved my heart,

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/418676.html


I hope it is a warning shot across our collective bows to seriously consider why we tolerate people who teach child abuse in the name of our loving G-d.

Jesus said it would be better to have a millstone tied around our necks and cast into the depths of the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble but, instead of a gentle parenting philosophy, Christians have produced some of the most draconian parenting books. The Ezzos, Dobson, The Pearls (material for the above article) are the most punitive writers I have encountered in my research into the world of parenting gurus.

The following thoughts are from my friend, Rebecca Prewett,

http://www.fix.net/~rprewett/millstones.html

More on the excesses of authoritarian and isolationists

http://www.equip.org/free/DF230.htm