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August 11, 2016 by Hemant Mehta
The folks at Homeschoolers Anonymous recently got their hands on some old workbook pages used at the Institute of Basic Life Principles. That would be the Christian ministry founded by Bill Gothard, a man who resigned as President a couple of years ago after 34 women accused him of sexual harassment.
In these workbook pages, which are approximately 20 years old but still aligned with the ministry’s current teachings, students are presented with a question: “Why did God let a four year old boy be molested by a fifteen year old neighbor?”
Besides the odd phrasing that suggests the four-year-old did something to get molested instead of focusing on the teenager who committed the crime, it’s also a really weird way to talk about why God allows bad things to happen…
And the responses on the page were no better, blaming the victim time and time again.
Just look at Reason #3: “To give him a ‘moral vaccination’ against future temptations.”
God will severely judge the fifteen year old boy for the evil that he did. However, your son can turn what was meant for evil into good. The vaccinations we receive for various diseases contains a small amount of the actual disease. Our immune system builds up a reaction to it so that if our body is exposed to the disease, it is prepared to fight it off. A similar result can occur in the life of your son if this matter handled in a Scriptural way.
So… it’s a good thing the boy got molested because, now that it’s happened, he’ll be better equipped to fight it off in the future? That is some fucked up reasoning right there. I don’t need to get stung by a swarm of bees, either, to know I never want it to happen.
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