Fundamentalist Christians ‘Beat’ daughter to death in the name of God
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a fundamentalist Christian couple who killed their 7-year-old adopted daughter while practicing a violent form of discipline.
They reportedly beat their nine children regularly because they thought God wanted them to.
A California couple is behind bars after pleading guilty to torturing and murdering their seven-year-old adopted daughter.
According to CNN, Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz of Paradise, California beat seven-year-old Lydia Schatz to death because they believe “God” wanted them to. The couple beat Lydia for seven consecutive hours, with breaks for prayer, on the day she died. When police arrived at the Schatz residence, Lydia was still alive. An officer administered CPR, but it was too late.
The marathon torture session was allegedly sparked by the mispronunciation of a word during the Liberian-born child’s homeschool lesson.
“We have heard the phrase ‘death by a thousand lashes,” Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey told CNN. “That’s basically what this was.”
Lydia was beaten with, among other things, a 15″ plumbing supply tube, called a “biblical rod” by the Schatzes.
The Schatzes didn’t only beat little Lydia; all nine of their children were victims of regular torture. Eleven-year-old Zariah was beaten so severely that she almost died too; all eight surviving children were placed in foster homes when Kevin and Elizabeth were arrested.
The couple was apparently heavily influenced by a Christian child-rearing book titled To Train Up a Child by Michael and Debi Pearl of Tennessee-based No Greater Joy Ministries.
Ramsey told CNN that there is “no doubt” the book influenced the Schatzes.
CNN interviewed the book’s authors at their Tennessee home. “If you spare the rod, you hate your child,” Michael Pearl explained, “but if you love him, you chasten him timely.” “God would not have commanded parents to use the rod if it were not good for the child,” the book states.
Kevin Schatz, who pleaded guilty to torture and murder, will face at least 22 years behind bars. His wife will be locked up for at least 12. At Kevin’s trial, 11-year-old Zariah courageously faced her tormenter and asked him: “Why did you adopt her (Lydia)? To kill her?”
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Disko Pickle 2012/05/26 01:54:39they beat her to death with 1/4 plastic tubing (tubing was recommended by a T...
+23The police had no right to arrest this couple. It's a violation of their religious liberties. This story is more evidence of the anti-Christian bigotry in America.
Your God does not require child sacrifices you ignorant pricks!!
Rex tremendae majestatis!!
The Perls? Ignorant ... and proud of it!!! You "suffered the little children" didn't you? When you die and face Lord Enma in Jigoku, know that he has a special hell reserved for those who torture children. Whatever the child felt, you will feel a thousandfold for 10,000 years. And after, that don't even think you've been forgiven. Your kami, or soul if you like, will be reduced to dust and scattered across all of eternity's realities. It will be like you never existed.
Poor Lydia. Rest in the peace you short life didn't know. Requiem aeternam.
This is the cost of believing comfortable delusions.
2. Is it really religion that makes people do this? No, its religion that's used as an excuse to justify people's evil actions! Come on, no one would suggest that if they did it in the name of atheism, atheism would be to blame!
the Old Testament Ten commandments were Written FOR the Hebrews
not Christians
The Original Ten Commandments as They were Originally Written
1. you are to admit no foreign gods into where I gaze.. (there had to be other gods)
2. You are not to make yourself carved representations of any shape found in the skies above or in the land below or in the water on which the land floats, and Kowtow in homage before them and honour them. (No craven images)
3. you are not to swear in Yahweh your Gods' name that which is false.
4. You are to slave for 6 days completing all of yur chores, But the seventh day is Yahweh your gods' seventh, your're not to do any chores..
5. Worship your father and your mother so that you will live a long time and prosper...
6. You are not to Retsakh (Kill a Fellow jew.) (No mention of anyone else)
7. You are not to Naf,,(ejaculate sperm in the wife of a fellow jew)
8. You awre not to Goniv (rob a fellow Jew)
9,, You are not to give testimony against your fellow jew...
10..You are not to lust after your fellow jews wife, nor after his dwelling, his farmland, his slave, his slavegirl, his ox or his ass, or anything your fellow jew owns...(anybody else was OK)
By no means am I suggesting that the majority of modern-day Jews are classists and racists; in fact, Jews were at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement, and there are a great deal of Jewish socialists, who are inherently anti-classist, such as Bernie Sanders, my favourite Senator of all (well, except for his positions on gun control).
Same with Hinduism, that religion everybody thinks is so peaceful. Rich white people > poor white people > indigenous Dravidian peoples. Sad to say, but that's the truth.
The Kohenim. The last name Cohen derives from that word. I don't have any hard feelings against their descendants, though.
I have no words.
Abandon your wife and children for Jesus and he’ll give your a big reward. Jesus asks that his followers abandon their children to follow him. To leave your child is abuse, it’s called neglect, pure and simple. Matthew 19:29
Jesus criticizes the Jews for not killing their disobedient children according to Old Testament law. Mark 7:9
Families will be torn apart because of Jesus. “Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death." Matthew 10:21
Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn’t the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament. Matthew 5:17
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders ...
God is the author of evil.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 31:1-2
And he is proud of the evil that he creates.
Behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall. 1 Kings 14:10
Behold, this evil is of the LORD. 2 Kings 6:33
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 2 Kings 21:12
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book. 2 Chronicles 34:24
All the evil that the LORD had brought upon him Job 42:11
he Lord ... will bring evil. Isaiah 31:1-2
I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. Jeremiah 4:6
I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts. Jeremiah 6:19
I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. Jeremiah 11:11
I will not spend my time - you seem to know, or at least, have read the Bible, go there bring the answers, I'm happy with my faith, it's not a problem to me. I love my neighbors, as JC taught, it's all.
Mathew 5:17“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
but your Savior is not my Savior
keep your religion to your church and your home
and I keep mine to my temple and my home
Dont force your beliefs on me or others and We all live in p eace
Did you get it, now?
It's kind of disrespect to the interlocutor. If you want answers that you can accept, don't ask to the public, ask to your mirror.
Open your mind, guy!
Again:
If you you're not mature enough to accept the answer, do not ask.
in portuguese we said: Fui, já deu!
your the one with a closed one
1 Samuel 15:3 God commands the death of helpless "suckling" infants. This literally means that the children god killed were still nursing.
Psalms 135:8 & 136:10 Here god is praised for slaughtering little babies.
Psalms 137:9 Here god commands that infants should be “dashed upon the rocks”.
Isaiah 13:15-18 If God can find you, he will “thrust you through,” smash your children “to pieces” before your eyes, and rape your wife.
Jeremiah 11:22-23 God will kill the young men in war and starve their children to death.
Jeremiah 19:7-9 God will make parents eat their own children, and friends eat each other.