re sj mercury s reference to fundamentalist christian parents in article may athos rutgers edu dan ingres com a rose arose writes in the monday may morning edition of the san jose mercury news an article by sandra gonzales at the top of page a explained convicted killer david edwin mason s troubled childhood saying raised in oakland and san lorenzo by strict fundamentalist christian parents mason was beaten as a child other instances of child abuse deleted were the san jose mercury news to come out with an article starting with raised in oakland by mexican parents mason was beaten my face would be red with anger over the injustice done to my mexican family members and the mexican community as a whole why is it that open biggotry like this is practiced and encouraged by the san jose mercury news when it is pointed at the christian community perhaps because there is a connection here that is not there in the mexican variant you bring up that is many not all extreme fundamentalist christians use the excuse of teaching their children biblical morality to justify this sort of mistreatment i do not see many mexicans using their mexican heritage as an excuse for abuse it is indeed this judgemental controlling legalism of many fundamentalist christians that has led me to reject that branch of our faith as not true to the gospel of christ the gospel of love i have seen this sort of thing too often even amoung my own relatives to believe there is no relationship judgementalism often leads to overly strict and thus abusive discipline of children this is not restricted to just christian fundamentalism it is found in many extreme sects of other legalistic religions can a good christian continue to purchase newspapers and buy advertising in this kind of a newspaper this is really bad journalism i too am a christian but i do not condone the use of the bible to justify this sort of abuse i believe that it is only by exposing the horrors of the misapplication of the biblical concept of discipline that such abuses can be stopped just because someone is also a christian does not mean we must identify eith them this sort of sin needs to be made public sarima teradata com formerly tdatirv sarima or stanley friesen elsegundoca ncr com
