can it possibly be true…
http://www.stoptherod.net/
http://www.stoptherod.net/biblical-child-training-excerpt.html
this book is for sale… right now in 2006…
http://homeschool-books.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16688&cat=439&page=1
also at amazon:
What do customers ultimately buy after viewing this item?
86% buy the item featured on this page:
What the Bible Says About Child Training (2nd Edition) by J. Richard Fugate $10.39
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i am a bit out of breath at the moment…
very disturbed.
so i reviewed an item at amazon:
Tragic Blasphemy
Dear Dear Citizens of earth,
I write this review with a heart heavier than stone. A deep sorrow runs through my being as i become aware of this book and the horrible practices it seems to suggest. This review is based on the reading of chapter 17 on a website called stop the rod dot net. you can search for the title of this book on google and see the whole chapter there. I keep wanting to THINK it is a hoax or something… but the title of chapter 17 is clearly visible in the table of contents here at amazon: “The correct use of chastisement”
I suppose everyone is entitled to their own opinions and views and decisions about child raising and punishment. I don’t intend to judge anyone for their opinions. I am intending to point out some observations.
Over the years of humanity’s recorded history, we have seen MANY repetitions of a cycle or behavior that is very crass and in my opinion extremely blasphemous. People rationalize power hungry suppressive and VIOLENT behavior by using the name of God (eg. The Crusades). I cannot condone this behavior, i have trouble to accept that there are still humans on this planet who are employing this painfully destructive cycle.
If I were in front of you right now, i would beg you not to beat your child, not with your hand, not with a “rod” as this book blatently suggests, not with your words not even with your thoughts. The children of earth deserve better than this, my dear brothers and sisters.
I would like to make this perfectly clear with a small painfully true adaptation of the back cover: (integrating some material from chapter 17)
“J Richard Fugate accepted Christ as his savior in 1968 at the age of 28. Three years later he totally committed himself to serve God wherever he was called.”(back cover). These days he is selling books that encourage parents to beat their children with a rod in order to “bring a rebellious child’s will under control” (pg.173). In cases where the child is excessively willful, Fugate suggests that it may “require enough strokes to receive stripes or even welts” (pg. 173).
I can not manage to reconcile this incredible injustice, and i truly hope that you will never have to read this review, because amazon will soon remove this book from its system of moral, ethical, if not legal grounds.
I am happy to suggest that you have a search for a book about indigo children (if you do a google search for: indigo children gotjosh … you can find a site that includes some audio readings of a fantastic book that is not widely distributed.)
blessings on your path, and virtue in your child raising decisions,
joshua
