Australian Pastor Had Sex With His Daughters - To Teach Them To Be Good Wives Friday, August 31, 2007
Posted by h3nry in Australia, South Australia, crime, faith, family, fundamentalism, incest, morality, religion, scriptures, sex.trackback
Why - someone please explain to me - do we often have religious figures commit unspeakable, despicable crimes like this? People with religious duties are depended by many followers as their moral guides and supportive pillars, yet we seem to never stop hearing criminal and degrading sexual acts being repeated over and over again. Why?
In this report an Australian fundamentalist pastor is being jailed for eight and half years for having sex with his daughters - when both were in their early teenage years - to teach them how to be good wives.
Says in the report:
The man [the pastor] told the court the sex was not about fulfilling his desires but about teaching his daughters how to behave for their husbands when they eventually married, as dictated in scripture.
In sentencing, Judge David Lovell said the misrepresentation of scripture used to justify the abuse of the girls “defied belief”, and that he had “hypocritically betrayed” his religion and principles.
Many religious apologetics have said that religion is merely an expression, a vehicle for wrongful acts. This I will not contest. However, it is also important to face the fact that such as in this case, religion and blind faith are the root cause of wrongful, criminal acts themselves.
This so-called “pastor” makes me sick.
incest is not uncommon in the animal kingdom, only that they do not need to explain it; either to a judge or . …. …. …
is it not there in your science text books or havent you watched the dogs do it? Stop being silly about such mundane things.
dogma in the name of religion is bad enough we dont need moral priests like you in science.
Stick to science, will you? morality is something that science has yet to get a firm grip on, when they get it, you can talk about it.
otherwise your blog is fine… spare us the humor though
This is linux all over again, 11 fools programming and 11,000 fools applauding.
This is Absurd! Much more than the sentence, dear PASTOR, give your life to christ so that you dont burn in hell fire. Have u wacthed Mike Bamiloye’s film? - Seun Jonathan, POGEM TV, http://www.pogem.tv
Only 8 and a half years? I think he deserves a lot longer.
Don’t forget that there are a lot of sickos out there that do even sicker things and not in the name of religion. Pastors just seem to get more attention when they do wrong … and they seem to always justify it using religion. It’s quiet sad, yes.
Calling incest “sick” is really applying some arbitrary morals to an act. Watch that slope of irrationalism. The questions are,
“did the daughters consent?”
“were they old enough by local standards to consent?”
“did they suffer damage in some form (psychological included)?”
“was birth control used since there is an increased chance of defective offspring?”
Academics aside, social mores are a mucky mix of secular and religious axioms not often examined critically.
The young women will probably take “virtual damage” in that they are now publicly known to have had sex with their father. They’re also no longer virgins, a problem for those that care about such things.
I’m not defending this loon at all… only saying be careful not to fall into the “unexamined belief” pit of outrage. Nature naturally tends to discourage incest (the sibling antipathy towards incest being a more interesting behavior) and there are excellent secular reasons to discourage anyone in an authority position taking undue advantage of those under their care.
Ehh, my problem with this is that it’s just an obscure example. If you start to use things like this to represent religion, then whenever an athiest does something wrong it would be an equally valid argument. I think we should stick to cold hard facts and logic for dealing with religion, and avoid using moral arguments.
Yeah, OK, who would want to marry them after that? Or, I can just imagine the conversation on their wedding night.