The_Metatron wrote:What the hell? What do the scribblings of some goatherd from two thousand years ago have to do with criminal behavior today?

This doesn't require a witness or victim to press charges. The state can do so, if they can find evidence to convict.

John Platko wrote:

The_Metatron wrote:What the hell? What do the scribblings of some goatherd from two thousand years ago have to do with criminal behavior today?

Perhaps they decided to settle it among themselves, inspired to do so by religion - as unfortunate as that is.

This doesn't require a witness or victim to press charges. The state can do so, if they can find evidence to convict.

If ...

The_Metatron wrote:

John Platko wrote:

The_Metatron wrote:What the hell? What do the scribblings of some goatherd from two thousand years ago have to do with criminal behavior today?

Perhaps they decided to settle it among themselves, inspired to do so by religion - as unfortunate as that is.

This doesn't require a witness or victim to press charges. The state can do so, if they can find evidence to convict.

If ...

Unacceptable.

Goatherd scribblings do not define American justice. If this is allowed to continue, congregations beating their children into submission and "settling it among themselves", who speaks for those children?

"In a newly discovered video, Pastor Eric Dammann admit to punching a child right in the chest because he didn’t take God seriously. And he considers that an ultimately good thing.

As he recounts the story, there was a 'real smart-aleck' at some youth group he was at, a 'bright kid' who was 'just trying to push my buttons and was “not taking the Lord serious.'”

don't get me started wrote:This fool deserves to be punched in the chest for not taking the rules of English grammar serious.