obviously you have taken up the worship of satan
Ah...typical JW...anyone who has left is automatically a Satan worshipper, a liar, and a slanderer. One question -
Has the R&F gotten so dumbed down that they don't know how to spell, capitalize, or punctuate? Ezra and PMJ really need to go back to school, or at the least pick up a Writer's Handbook.
I got a lot of spankings growing up. I probably needed them, though, and I'm not emotionally scarred or anything. I have a great relationship with my parents. I agree that 'beating your child with a rod' is a bad idea, but half of the problems with today's kids is that parents are afraid to give their kids a good whipping from time to time. All this Dr. Spock 'no discipline' mentality has raised a generation of rude, lazy, insolent children who have to be told 10 times to do something. I agree that many JW's take it to extreme, as do many 'worldly' people. Child abuse happens everywhere and I think it's a little short-sighted to say that only JW's 'beat' their kids. It may perhaps be a little more acceptable in public (meaning at the KH), but I hardly think that the quoted scripture was a green light to beat your kid with a rod.
I do remember this one kid in our hall and we used to laugh at him because his daddy would take him outside and then come back in buckling up his belt. I don't know why, but when we were kids it seemed kind of funny. Like his dad was such a big man and had to show everyone that he just beat his kid. He was a pretty bad kid, though.