The documentary ‘Baby Bible Bashers’ on C4 is deeply disturbing. It shows scenes that at best could be called child abuse, and at worst could be demonstrated as such.
But leaving aside the issue of whether conditioning is brainwashing is cruelty for a moment, the wider question is that of understanding.
How can a child – self styled ‘preacher’ – of seven years stand outside health clinics shouting that this place is where people kill their babies?
How can a seven year old child understand the concepts involved?
Can a seven year old child understand rape, and understand the consequences of rape, the place where the female who was raped puts herself when she finds she’s pregnant?
OK, that’s largely rhetorical because plainly, a seven year old child (of either gender) can’t.
And how can a child explain Exodus 35.2 to anyone?
These are just a few of my questions, my head is full of them.
This post at The Humanist gives one view of the child and his parents.
This post at youtube gives another:
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“Finally it was off to Rio de Janeiro to be introduced to 12-year-old Ana Carolina Dias. She’s been preaching since the age of three, and her father has ensured that she’s become a national sensation. “My father is everything to me”, she tells us. So much so that he shares a bed with her every night while her mother sleeps in another room.
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Did I read that right?
Did I?
Because I am starting to panic.
Like in, freaking out.
If the nurse was to take my vitals now, she wouldn’t be pleased with me at all.
Aaaaah.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah.
(Regarding the video… I can’t watch it. I’ve stopped at 1:57. I swear this little kid in his suit is going to haunt my nightmares tonight.)
I read that as well Citronella and was WTF!
I am totally with you Brennig. Did you see the part in the documentary where the little kid was crying in NY and saying he wanted his mum? Really sad. It is child abuse.