Christianity helped to change pagan views of children
by Carder
Various pagan authors describe children as being more like plants than human beings. And this had concrete consequences.
Well-to-do parents typically did not interact with their children, leaving them up to the care of slaves. Children were rudely brought up, and very strong beatings were a normal part of education. In Rome, a child’s father had the right to kill him for whatever reason until he came of age.
One of the most notorious ancient practices that Christianity rebelled against was the frequent practice of expositio, basically the abandonment of unwanted infants….
This is the world into which Christianity came, condemning abortion and infanticide as loudly and as early as it could.
~ Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The Week, April 23
Apr.24, 2015 6:30 am |
Apologetics |
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Pre-Christian and Post-Christian cultures have much in common: Contraception, abortion, infanticide, gendercide, genocide, divorce, slavery, sexual abuse of children, prostitution, and objectification of women as items of pleasure for men.
The modern era is not quite so fond of bloodsport as the ancient pagans, but this is coming.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
In this new age of terrorism, the irony of the loss of freedoms in the face of our free-will forfeiture of civility will continue to clarify that the true nature of what we call “choice” is not being made between a freedom of expression and one of repression, but is more commonly that of good or evil. Governments once regulated dangerous personal decisions that destroyed lives and families. The removal of these fences results in one form of terror or another.
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Seriously Del, you think those things don’t exist in christian cultures? What or when do you consider a christian culture?
Aren’t there various bible verses exhorting people to kill their children?