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.
In psychology we call that reaction formation.
Religion is itself a serious mental illness, and often covers other mental illnesses as well. All religious people should be on a watchlist.
You’re going to get guff for that (completely accurate) opinion.
Meh. I’ve been saying that religion is the greatest threat facing humanity, by far worse than climate change, worse than potential nuclear war, worse than running low on cheap fossil fuels.
I’m used to getting pushback from the mental children that tremble in fear of an imaginary construct.
Always the ones you most expect.
Yeah. Except, as Trump says, ‘Who would have guessed!?’
Religion is clearly the best grift.
If he were a Catholic priest he’d have the entire international power of the RCC protecting him. Dude picked the wrong church.
My humble opinion:
Many Christians (and people of other kinds of faith) truly want to be good humans. I know many christians. And although for many reasons I personally don’t take their faith for me, I do recognize their honest intentions and beautiful hearts.
Then… then we have these scumbags… these abominations that not only abuse (in the general sense), but also target and scar for life the most vulnerable members of our society. These excuses of human beings are a complete waste of air and must be castrated and let to rot in prison.
Their holy book is filled with rape, murder, genocide, incest, and ritualized cannibalism in the name of their god. It ends with them going to heaven while everyone else gets burned for eternity. There probably are decent people who get involved, but their decency does not stem from their religion. It’s a psychological coping mechanism that has become a good old boys club that holds itself as morally unaccountable to anyone but god for their actions. In the real world, people expect others to either not be an asshole, or if they are, actually atone by paying the consequences and change their ways, not just whisper some words to the sky and announce “all good, I’m forgiven”. You can insert a lot of other religions in here- do wrong, be sheltered from consequences by your cult, or if even they can’t protect you, double down on refusing to take accountability because you don’t think you answer to other humans.
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
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.
Sacrifice is a common theme in a lot of religions. The victim is offered to the diety, killed, and then consumed; the followers get whatever they were after, which could be atonement, a blessing, grace, etc. In Christianity theology, the man-god Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice, ending the need to attain atonement with animal sacrifice. His instructions were to ritualistically eat bread (his body) and drink wine (his blood) as the atonement ritual. Different sects have differing opinions on where this is purely symbolic (most Protestants) or if through transubstantiation it literally becomes the flesh and blood of Jesus (Catholics). At the end of the day, you’re either symbolically or literally eating Jesus. By the doctrine though, it’s not pure cannibalism since Jesus is a god incarnate, but that’s what theologically makes it a step up over other forms of sacrifice; eat god, become like god.
The problem is how many people in religious groups will refuse to condemn actions of the religion’s organizations and leaders but keep their “membership”. If you are provided evidence that a group you are a part of is committing heinous shit like systemic child rape but you will neither leave nor vocally condemn it then you are fully compliant in those crimes. If you go further, as most religious people do, and white wash the absolute fuck out of the reality of the crimes of your group and try to spread that bullshit then you are just as guilty as the actual rapists, just as guilty as the “cleaner squads” from the Vatican that help relocate rapist priests.
Yup
😂 let me guess… Another conservative weirdo protecting kids in his own unique way?
a Christian ethic of marriage and sexuality
Big “sex for me but not for thee” vibes.
convicted on sex felonies
Christian sexual ethics
Yeah that tracks.
So all of these abrahamic religious types really just looooove diddling kids, eh? Fucking hell.
Nah. Plenty of Hindus and Buddhists do it too. The problem isnt a specific religion or religions, people who want to hurt others are attracted to positions of authority. Religion offers the best cover.
That depends on what role religion plays in a society. In a non religious society, those people are drawn to other positions of authority where they can perpetrate. For instance teachers and social workers are among the worst when it comes to occupations where these people end up.
It’s what god wants 👍
“Spare the diddle, spoil the child.”
- Omnipotent beings, apparently
Wanna guess his political affiliation?
Nazi?
Ephebophile, which he’s very quick to remind us is different from pedophile?
The only way this matters is because they sit at separate tables in the prison cafeteria.
I think they might prefer to stand
These are not political ideologies.
Yes they are.
When the oligarchs want to fuck children, and pour global resources into keeping themselves out of jail while they fuck children, it’s a goddamn ideology.
My political ideology is also not what you would consider a political ideology, it’s “guillotine the bastards,” and on the political spectrum, it starts at the top, swoops to the bottom, then we get a new head basket.
The global oligarchs like many things. Some like children, some like crepes, some like yachts. But these things are as much political ideologies.as the Professor we’re talking about is a global oligarch.
I get that you want to raise your distain of a thing every chance you can get, but some times the context will make for such a stretch that your words will become devalued by your intended audience.
The Venn diagram is starting to disagree more and more these days.
It’s always the people you most suspect.
…for you to poop on?
Actually, no. He’d probably get off on that.
What the fuck are you talking about, that’s disgusting. Show me where this is happening and how to do it, so that I can avoid it.
These people can’t even follow societal ethics, let alone the dogma they set. Yet people will continue to swallow thought patterns whole for the freedom to not think.
The point of religion is to place yourself above societal ethics with a excuse not to feel bad about failing to match them since your deity loves child molesters or however anyway.
so much for sexual ethics.
I feel like this is a “why are you so focused on this topic” sort of question and answer
I think he took his research way too seriously.
