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Cedarville professor, author on Christian sexual ethics, arrested on eight sex felonies (roysreport.com)

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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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[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 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 1 day ago (3 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 1 day ago (2 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 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I didn't say communion was only a catholic tradition. I said transubstantiation (the thing that you were talking about that I replied to) is only a catholic tradition. Calling transubstantiation cannibalism is one thing, but calling communion cannibalism when it is entirely symbolic is absolutely a stretch.

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