Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:25 am
Cindy –
It was obvious to me from your post on the Original Sin thread that you’d closely read what would be several pages of printed waffle (mainly be me) condensed these to the essentials in concise summary and pointed the conversation in absolutely the right direction. Respect!
Thanks Jeff - I stand corrected
. The punchy little quotation 'Spare the rod and spoil the child' which is used as a mindless retributive slogan, like 'an eye for an eye', is actually from a rather saucy eighteenth century poem; but it is derived from the saying you quote from Proverbs. Since I want to always apply the 'measure of mercy', of minimum force through horror of violence, I'm always disturbed about the use of smacking - and I was never smacked by my Dad as a child, although the teachers at one of my schools used plenty of disproportionate violence - but the article this weekend by the Labour MP from an Afro-Caribbean background did make me think.
Dick
P.S. Have you got anything on sin in social structures? Piaidon recommended the 'Rebel God' website in another discussion and there is some good material on this that I've currently only skimmed.
It was obvious to me from your post on the Original Sin thread that you’d closely read what would be several pages of printed waffle (mainly be me) condensed these to the essentials in concise summary and pointed the conversation in absolutely the right direction. Respect!
Thanks Jeff - I stand corrected
. The punchy little quotation 'Spare the rod and spoil the child' which is used as a mindless retributive slogan, like 'an eye for an eye', is actually from a rather saucy eighteenth century poem; but it is derived from the saying you quote from Proverbs. Since I want to always apply the 'measure of mercy', of minimum force through horror of violence, I'm always disturbed about the use of smacking - and I was never smacked by my Dad as a child, although the teachers at one of my schools used plenty of disproportionate violence - but the article this weekend by the Labour MP from an Afro-Caribbean background did make me think.Dick
P.S. Have you got anything on sin in social structures? Piaidon recommended the 'Rebel God' website in another discussion and there is some good material on this that I've currently only skimmed.