Why is what we do any business is it of God's?

I was always taught not to mumble. 😉

I always mumbled as a child. People could never hear me when I'd first say something. I'd always have a tendency to look at the ground too so basically I always looked guilty. I remember in 3rd grade my teacher took me aside and called me a "shit starter" for this. I remember even at the time finding it weird.

You should've mumbled like God. I bet that would've stained her undies.

I know, or I should of been like "yeah a shit starter, but it beats killing babies like God, right?".

She would have slapped you across your shit-starter face.

😱

It's possible, though I never did see anyone get hit with a ruler or something like they used to do back in the day.

Yep, they used to beat young kids with sticks for acting up, because religion!

Originally posted by Surtur
Yep, they used to beat young kids with sticks for acting up, because religion!

Originally posted by Astner
No. Because they used to chastise children because it was considered standard disciplinary conditioning. It had nothing to do with any religion.

Ah, but good christians should of recognized it was abhorrent behavior, correct? Or should religious people just go with the flow, regardless of how it matches up with the shit they spout?

Originally posted by Surtur
Ah, but good christians should of recognized it was abhorrent behavior, correct? Or should religious people just go with the flow, regardless of how it matches up with the shit they spout?

I wasn't actually trying to say it is a religious practice, though I can see how it was taken that way. I was making fun of the fact religious people were beating children. Especially if the reason boils down to "it was the thing to do in those days".

Originally posted by Surtur
I wasn't actually trying to say it is a religious factor. I was making fun of the fact religious people were beating children.

Spare the rod, spoil the child, is that a religious expression?

Originally posted by riv6672
Spare the rod, spoil the child, is that a religious expression?

If the rod in question is meant to be a metaphor for penis, then it certainly sounds religious 131

I'd say that was hilarious but i'm still under oath.

Originally posted by riv6672
Spare the rod, spoil the child, is that a religious expression?

Proverbs 13:24
24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son:
but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+13%3A24

Excellent, thank you! 👆

Originally posted by bluewaterrider
[B]Proverbs 13:24
24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son:
but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

It's believed that the proverb is the inspiration for that quote, but the quote itself comes from "Hudibras" by Samuel Butler.

[list]If matrimony and hanging go
By dest'ny, why not whipping too?
What med'cine else can cure the fits
Of lovers when they lose their wits?
Love is a boy by poets stil'd
Then spare the rod and spoil the child [/list]
I'd include link to the full poem but I havent't posted enough to be trusted with links.

Originally posted by Astner
It looked more as if you were whining. Either way it's a moot point because it's not a behavior exclusive to religious people; nor does it conflict with any wide-spread religious decrees as far as I'm aware.

But nobody was whining. Merely commenting on something I found amusing. Nor did anyone ever say it was exclusive to religious people, so we can nip that in the butt as well. It was an offhand comment.

Originally posted by riv6672
Spare the rod, spoil the child, is that a religious expression?

I wonder how spoiled the first borns in Egypt felt.

Originally posted by 55iopy
Hey Blue.

It's believed that the proverb is the inspiration for that quote, but the quote itself comes from "Hudibras" by Samuel Butler.

[list]If matrimony and hanging go
By dest'ny, why not whipping too?
What med'cine else can cure the fits
Of lovers when they lose their wits?
Love is a boy by poets stil'd
Then spare the rod and spoil the child [/list]
I'd include link to the full poem but I havent't posted enough to be trusted with links.