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A former Cedarville University finance professor whose writings promote a Christian ethic of marriage and sexuality was arrested Tuesday on eight sex-related felony charges involving one or more minors.

The indictment, filed March 27 in Ohio’s Greene County Common Pleas Court, charges John Kent Tarwater with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.

He was booked into Greene County jail in southwest Ohio, where he remained in custody as of Wednesday morning. No defense counsel was listed in public court records, and no hearing or trial dates were disclosed.

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[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 8 points 22 hours ago (11 children)

Their holy book is filled with rape, murder, genocide, incest, and ritualized cannibalism in the name of their god. It ends with them going to heaven while everyone else gets burned for eternity. There probably are decent people who get involved, but their decency does not stem from their religion. It’s a psychological coping mechanism that has become a good old boys club that holds itself as morally unaccountable to anyone but god for their actions. In the real world, people expect others to either not be an asshole, or if they are, actually atone by paying the consequences and change their ways, not just whisper some words to the sky and announce “all good, I’m forgiven”. You can insert a lot of other religions in here- do wrong, be sheltered from consequences by your cult, or if even they can’t protect you, double down on refusing to take accountability because you don’t think you answer to other humans.

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (9 children)

ritualized cannibalism

wow, that's new for me, would you mind to elaborate?

The rest, good points. You touched several reasons why I don't endorse their faith myself.

Thanks for the comment

[–] whoxtank28@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The ritualized cannibalism bit is transubstantiation, the belief that the blood(wine) and body(bread) of Jesus turn into his real blood and body during consecration in catholic mass.

But you could make a dig into it overall just beacuase the bread and wine are symbolic ritual cannibalism, very culty sounding when you look at it from another angle.

[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

As you said though, that's a Catholic tradition, not Christianity as a whole, and it isn't directly supported by the Bible. Its their unique interpretation of the act of communion. The actual text seems pretty metaphorical IMO.

[–] whoxtank28@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Communion is not really just a catholic tradition, and it is not a wild interpretation to make when a dude says these 2 things sybolically represent my flesh and blood, calling the whole ritual symbolic cannibalism is not a stretch.

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