I have a biker who lives next door. He has a prison ministry. He looks like he’d pop you head like a pimple.
Which attitude is then taught to the kids? If they are not confessedly responsible to a higher power, then they become the authority figures. Not godly.
And it burns me that people go mouthing about millstones without thinking about THIS kind of millstone being bequeathed... that of teaching that it’s wonderful (let alone okay) to act independently of a worthy Higher Power.
There’s a reason vigilantes got a bad name. The toughie who might help you today, might harm you tomorrow, and with no principle to distinguish the situations except that you got crosswise with him in one of them but not the other.
If this was a gospel based group I would have far, far fewer concerns. The thing that bugs me, is that it isn’t.
Men and women who have lived hard lives and retained their humanity are maybe the best defenders that abused children can possibly find. This works on a few levels, such as, a bunch of bikers randomly appearing as “guardian angels” in the background of a formerly abusive situation. The message is clear: “Don’t mess with our friend, here. Hands off. We are not fooling.”