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    A particularly disgusting story from CNN:





    AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- Austin police arrested a church pastor and his twin brother Tuesday, alleging they used a tree branch to beat unconscious an 11-year-old who misbehaved in Bible class.

    Joshua Thompson, 22, a pastor at Capitol City Baptist Church, and his brother Caleb turned themselves in Tuesday and were released on $25,000 bond, KEYE-TV reported. They were charged with injury to a child, a felony punishable by up to life in prison, the station reported.

    The alleged beating took place July 3, according to reports. The brothers thought the boy did not take his Bible verses seriously enough during a church-sponsored summer camp for Spanish-speaking students, officials said.

    The alleged abuse took place at a private home, said Bobby Taylor, the child's attorney. "They ... cut a branch off a tree, made my client lay on the bed, and beat him," Taylor said.

    Court records obtained by Reuters alleged that the beating lasted for 90 minutes, broke blood vessels and caused the boy's kidneys to fail. The brothers allowed the child to take a break in the restroom during the reported beating, documents said.

    Joshua Thompson beat the child while Caleb Thompson held him down, Reuters reported, citing court records. They reportedly turned up a radio to drown out the child's cries, the news service reported. Afterward, the two took the boy back to his home, where Joshua Thompson told the parents the child needed further discipline, the AP reported.

    After the Thompsons left, the boy's parents discovered bruises and cuts covering his entire back, as well as bruises on his neck, buttocks and legs, AP reported. They called police and took their son to a hospital, where he remained in fair condition Tuesday, the news service said.

    Capitol City Baptist does not support corporal punishment, said Jerald Finney, Joshua Thompson's lawyer.

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    It seems they have no objection to hiring a couple of Neanderthals to serve as youth pastors however.
    He's got the Midas touch.
    But he touched it too much!
    Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!

  • #2
    I'm confused. If his twin brother is called Tuesday why did they arrest Caleb? Seems unfair.

    I wish things like this were made more public somehow. It might help remind people that Islam is not the only religion with fundamentalists.
    A witty quote proves nothing. - Voltaire

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    • #3
      It's nice to know that priests no longer stop at sexual and emotional trauma.
      "Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
      "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" - Victor Hugo
      "It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." - Mark Twain

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      • #4
        What is the point?

        This sickens me, and the two men certainly deserve to go to jail for this, or worse, but what are you trying to say or accomplish? Maybe nothing more than letting people know of the incident, but....

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        • #5
          It's traditional here on OT to post interesting or grotesque news stories that your fellow posters may have missed. This story was particularly egregious, both in it's severe child abuse aspect as well as the complete cluelessness of the perpetrators who seem to know about as much about their own religion as my dog. I think it's important to know that this sort of thing is not limited to third world countries, but can happen in second world countries like the Republic of Texas as well. External diligence is the price of fiefdom.
          He's got the Midas touch.
          But he touched it too much!
          Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!

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          • #6
            I'm still waiting for the brutal atheist stories.... oh yeah, we aren't crazy... DUH!
            To us, it is the BEAST.

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            • #7
              This is sick, and a complete perversion of christianity. So please don't call this "ol' time religion"! This has nothing to do with religion or christianity!
              'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
              G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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              • #8
                I don't know, reminds me of Christianity's good ol' days: The Inquisition, burning heretics at the stake, The Crusades...
                Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Boris Godunov
                  I don't know, reminds me of Christianity's good ol' days: The Inquisition, burning heretics at the stake, The Crusades...
                  But that wasn't true christianity! The Catholic Church that did the Inquisistion, and the Crusades, was not true Christianity.

                  Just because it had the name "christian", does not mean it was. LIkewise, just because a person claims to be a christian does not mean they are. If their actions are unchristian, then they are definitely not christian no matter what they say.
                  'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
                  G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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                  • #10
                    Didn't Jesus chase the money lenders out of the temple by lashing them with a whip?

                    So whipping people seems to be Christian after all!
                    Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                    • #11
                      All people who had some kind of power in the days of the Crusades and later the Inquisition, were basically bastards when it came to human rights issues.

                      That wasn't a trait reserved for Christians by any means.

                      Remember Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

                      Help, help! I'm being oppressed!!

                      Now if that isn't historical proof of my point, then I must have watched too much MP.

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                      • #12
                        Psst...It's "repressed," not "oppressed."

                        Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Boris Godunov
                          Didn't Jesus chase the money lenders out of the temple by lashing them with a whip?

                          So whipping people seems to be Christian after all!
                          Oh my! Dont' tell me that you think Jesus chasing out money lenders with a whip and a boy practically beign whipped to death, are equivalent?

                          The two situations are completely different and in no way morally equivalent!
                          'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
                          G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Boris Godunov
                            Psst...It's "repressed," not "oppressed."

                            Pah! You're as bad as a King.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by The diplomat
                              This is sick, and a complete perversion of christianity. So please don't call this "ol' time religion"! This has nothing to do with religion or christianity!
                              Agreed. And 11 September 2002 was nothing to do with Islam.

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