you haven’t read the whole thread or you would have already seen that I freely admit I picked the wrong article and as other poster said I got a passle of beard stroking types. I have never been to that site before and picking that one was unfortunate.
However, my disdain of Dobson is long term and deep and I picked the first article that quoted his lunacy that I found. And all you types leaped on it like blood hounds. You make me tired. I don’t even know what a “nontheist” is nor do I care.
I can’t stand Dobson and his twisted views. My views are those of an orthodox pre Vatican 2 Catholic who also prays to Mary, St. Jude and a whole host of stuff that probably ticks you off. Serious Catholics don’t spend a whole lot of time listening to the priest talk about spanking the kids. We have better things to do.
I’ve thought that sometimes he pushes it too far. There isn’t any one size fits all answer for modes of child discipline, and by saying you MUST strike or spank he is as wrong as one who says you MUST NEVER consider it. Sometimes it’s joked about fundies (and I consider myself theologically a fundie) that they will stop at a stop sign then wait for it to tell them to go.
So you are SSPX or a sedevacantist? In any case, even few traditional RCs would agree with you, while the most important thing is that Scripture does not:
“He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. “ (Proverbs 13:24)
“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. “ (Hebrews 12:6)
No doubt as the head of a a single spouse household with superior wisdom, you can refuse to allow “rod” to ever refer to physical spanking, and can take God’s scourging to mean God also takes loves to hurt His own.
And by condemning Dobson as a lunatic narcissistic control freak, who teaches learning to yield to loving authority, and in so learning advocates principled spanking under certain conditions, coupled with explanations and prayer, and balanced by mercy, grace and affirmation, then you essentially charge God with the same, as this is Scriptural.