The difference here is that the vast majority of Christians view this act as an atrocity, and want the perpetrators punished. Apparently the good Christians in the sect this thug "minister" belongs to don't seem to be at all bothered by this brutal assault. Nothing I've read to date indicates that they've helped the police bring these criminals to justice in any way or even told the authorities where they can be found. Surely the sheep know where the shepherd spends his days?
The Islamic world, by and large, has institutionalized this sort of barbaric behaviour.
And you know this how? Just like Christianity, there are so many sects and offshoots of Islam, there is no such thing as one voice who speaks authoritatively for the entire religion. Don't mistake simple jealousy by poor people against the rich for some sort of Islam-wide "conspiracy" to hate Americans.
And you know this how? I can read. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't read about the crap that goes on in the Muslim world - cutting off hands for theft, punishing women for being raped, forcing little schoolgirls back into burning buildings because they are not properly covered to go outside...
Don't mistake simple jealousy by poor people against the rich for some sort of Islam-wide "conspiracy" to hate Americans.
Osama bin Laden is poor? The Saudi royal family is poor? Saddam Hussein is poor?
Apparently the good Christians in the sect this thug "minister" belongs to don't seem to be at all bothered by this brutal assault. The family, who have attended the church for four years, are the source of the evidence being used by the police.
An 11-year-old boy who read the wrong Bible verse at church was severely beaten with a tree branch by a Baptist pastor and the pastor's brother,
the boy's family said. Photo supplied by family attorney Bobby R. Taylor An 11-year-old boy suffered kidney failure after being beaten on the back and buttocks with a tree branch,
a police affidavit says. The boy suffered kidney failure as a result of the beating and spent the Fourth of July weekend in the intensive care unit of Brackenridge Hospital sedated with morphine,
according to a police affidavit. ... "(The boy) was accused of not taking this very seriously," said Bobby Taylor,
an attorney for the family. According to Taylor and
family members, the beating occurred Wednesday while the boy and other children practiced for a Bible competition. "He was trying to find the verse and he was on the wrong verse, and they thought he was goofing around,"
the boy's mother said. According to the police affidavit filed in support of the arrest warrants,
the stepfather told investigators the Thompsons said they tried to break the child and make him repent from wrongdoing. "Their idea of discipline was to take him out of school and beat him until he was black and blue,"
said the boy's uncle, Felipe Garcia.
A photograph provided by Taylor showed deep purple bruises and scabs on the boy's back and buttocks. The police affidavit noted the boy also was bruised on his arms, legs and head.
The boy's mother said she and her family had attended the independent Baptist church for four years and that the sermons never endorsed severe discipline.
The family intends to file a civil lawsuit against the church.
There. That should make it easier for you.