As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid. Chris Crutcher
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This quote is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it suggests that the Christian idea of spanking children is different from hitting them with a baseball bat. This is probably true. It's also interesting because it shows how much more progressive Christians are today than they were in the early 20th century. The extreme abuse that was common in the early 1900s was completely abandoned by the 1950s, even though Christian fundamentalists had no intention of abandoning their beliefs on spanking.

Source: King Of The Mild Frontier: An Illadvised Autobiography

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