This school and Jerry Prevo are the poorest excuse for human beings. They try to brainwash all of those poor kids (former and present) with all of this “christian crap”. They are nothing but cowards and con men and con women who abused children under the “christian flag” excuse.

I hope one day they are shown for the true pieces of shit they really are. I have a really great memory and would love to tell the world the truth of this place and what really happened there. I remember the teacher Tony said, Mrs. Griffin and a Miss Emy. What vultures those two were.

I hope other victims of this hell hole speak out and let people know what really happened there. I have a VERY stubborn personality and all of the abuse there just made me realize what a farce and a joke religion really is. I’ve never been so happy to call myself an athiest as I am right now. I hope that place burns to the ground someday.

But I ceased being a Christian by the time I left junior high over much the same conviction touched on here: that the teachings the evangelical/fundamentalist writers I was reading in junior high were wrong. They claimed that God would throw otherwise good, righteous, compassionate people to eternal damnation simply because they had not accepted Jesus as their personal saviour, was a god who was not in fact God, but rather an immoral bully & tyrant posing as God. By their ideology, the Dalai Lama, for instance, would roast in fire & brimstone forever. I don’t believe in such a god.

But I do not say, nor did I ever say, that God is a child abuser. What I said is that James Dobson’s God and Jerry Prevo’s God is a child abuser. They, in my opinion, do not follow God, but rather, as I’ve written in a poem of mine,

this false image of God they’ve made:
a warped, twisted abridgment

stuffed into a book, a Sunday sermon,
their cramped and distorted souls.

If you disagree with me about that, then we disagree. But in any case, I have never found even Christians to be all of one mind about what Christianity is — which is why there are so many varieties of it, from Russian Orthodoxy & Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism & all the various Protestant denominations, & then some. The type of Christianity I criticize here is not so much Christianity as it is Christianism: religion twisted into religio/political ideology having little to do with what Jesus actually taught. I love the Christianity followed by my brother’s family, or so many other friends I’ve had over the course of my life, but the Christianism of Prevo & Dobson is just another ideology led by a God who has about a much compassion as a Chinese tank at Tiananmen Square.

Regarding corporal punishment. — opinions differ on that, of course. I’ve had my own hard-lived experience helping to raise my ex-partner’s nephew from age 9. He came out of a situation of horrific abuse by his biological parents, particularly his father; his sister was sexually abused by his father. He also came to us extremely violent, kicking & hitting & throwing things, spitting in our faces: it was the same treatment he expected from us, because that’s what his parents had taught him. We had to learn other ways of disciplining him than spanking, because that would have only exacerbated his violence. And in fact we learned that foster parents in Alaska are absolutely prohibited from spanking foster children, for these very reasons. And now here he is, 23 years old, & yet he is a good, caring, responsible, loving, & trustworthy young man.

Never once having been spanked since he came to us two days after he turned 9.

On the other side of things, I was spanked by my parents several times as a kid. I don’t remember my parents ever having done it “abusively” or as anything other than discipline. And so I see your point. And yet I don’t see any good that it ever did me to be spanked. It hurt, & I cried. And I also learned that if I didn’t want to get spanked, I needed to be more careful & had to be a better liar, so I wouldn’t get spanked again. It certainly didn’t lead me toward trusting my parents or feeling that I could talk with them about stuff that bothered me. I only learned to do that many years later, after long, hard, & very painful work. I don’t believe my parents intended to harm me. Yet they did.

If you feel differently about the corporal punishment your parents applied to you, then I’m glad you took no harm from it.

Meantime, from an official policy statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics from April 1998 (reaffirmed in 2004):

Parents who spank their children are more likely to use other unacceptable forms of corporal punishment.[21] The more children are spanked, the more anger they report as adults, the more likely they are to spank their own children, the more likely they are to approve of hitting a spouse, and the more marital conflict they experience as adults.[20] Spanking has been associated with higher rates of physical aggression, more substance abuse, and increased risk of crime and violence [22] when used with older children and adolescents.

The numbers in square brackets are references to studies that substantiate these statements, which are included in the link given above.

By the way, I’m not a man.

Maybe the truth is not that God is a child abuser; maybe the truth is you are a God abuser. And yet he allowed sinful men like yourself (and myself) to abuse his Son, Jesus Christ, and crucify him even though he was innocent, so that we could be forgiven of our God-abuse and accepted as his beloved children. That’s the message of the New Testament. Read it for yourself.

I am a Social Worker who has studied Phsycology extensively. I have worked with abused folk who have fallen into the same abusive patterns, as well as alcohol and drug abuse. I would say you are right regarding Mr. Prevo. It is such a shame that he is being held up by his congregants as someone to be idealized. He needs help…and lots of it. It is safe to assume however, that he will not ask for it. It would show that he is weak, or worse…His G-D is weak. Cannot have that…no sireee!

I am so turned off by people like Prevo. He will not hear a dissenting view, and in fact will label anyone as “no good” by his standards, who thinks differently.

I am Canadian, and want to tell you I watched your fight for equality for LGBT people. As the sister of an adored sister, who is gay, I was rooting for you. I find it so hard to believe that you had to endure the ugliness that was shown at those assembly meetings. Anyone trying to talk openly about that kind of nonsense (hate speeck) here, would be yanked immediately.

Canadians love free speech…and we practise it. We do have hate speech laws however, and I am grateful for that. There are consequences, or at least there should be, when you rile up the masses with ugliness.

I wish you well in your next fight…and there will be one. Next time…you will win.