Domestic Violence The next big attack on the Church in Australia

[Lion_IRC]

Check out this editorial piece which demolishes the ABC Julia Baird story.

"WHAT a coincidence. The ABC steps up its war on Christianity just as Cardinal George Pell returns to Australia to face court over alleged historical sexual offences.

…Baird, herself, concedes deep in her online article that her American source says “regular church attenders are less likely to commit acts of intimate partner violence”. That suggests Christianity actually protects women, exactly the opposite of what the ABC implied.

…What’s more, [the Ellison study] says that men who often go to a Christian church “are 72 per cent less likely to abuse their female partners than men from comparable backgrounds who do not attend services”.

…The conclusion is clear: “Our findings … suggest that religious involvement, specifically church attendance, protects against domestic violence.” Christianity literally saves.

 

[Cyril_Of_Canada]

abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/domestic-violence-church-submit-to-husbands/8652028

This is so sad and the next thing the Catholic Church in my country is going to be attacked for. And completely unfounded today.
Domestic violence awareness is huge here. A very current topic.

As a victim of domestic violence, I can stand side-by-side with victims of domestic violence and share my view on why Catholic feminist social justice is better than Secular feminist social justice.

 

[Roseeurekacross]

I’m pretty sure the ugly face of domestic violence isnt occurring in devoutly Christian homes where monogamous spouses love and honor their (Christian) marriage vows.

It’s mostly being perpetrated by ex-husbands and estranged partners.

The cause of domestic violence, in my opinion, is infidelity, vanity, greed, selfishness, drug and alcohol abuse, and the disintegration of the Judeo-Christian nuclear family.

i cant work the link, who wrote the editorial?
This is a series that the ABC is running. But whats the take home message of this series in a secular population moving further away from the Church. Its not boiled down to regular attendance, vs not regular attendance, for those viewers. In my culture.

The ugly fist of domestic violence is alive and well within monogomous marriage and relationships. its a huge problem here. massive.

whats perpetrated in the stat that one woman a week in Australia is that woman is killed or maiming by a current partner or an ex partner/ estranged partner.
Whatever the motivation of the perpetrator to hurt or murder.

Cyril I hope you are out of that situation. I am not familiar with your terms. Can you explain them further.

 

[Cyril_Of_Canada]

Cyril I hope you are out of that situation. I am not familiar with your terms. Can you explain them further.

No. Far from it. It has gotten to the point where people are angry that I am suffering unjustly and are using it as an occasion to mock and ridicule my beliefs in the Catholic Church, the choice to love my wife and repay good for evil and the Church’s stance on the sanctity of marriage. My mental illness secures me as a suffering servant. I’ve been called delusional, paranoid, foolish; Mocked and ridiculed for my religious beliefs and victim blamed by at least one psychologist/psychiatrist for staying in my situation. It seems people can’t fathom that I would choose to imitate Christ and suffer for what I really believe in by choosing to pick up my cross and follow Jesus.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/domestic-violence-church-submit-to-husbands/8652028

This is so sad and the next thing the Catholic Church in my country is going to be attacked for. And completely unfounded today.

Domestic violence awareness is huge here. A very current topic.

If these people are fair dinkum, they can do some research into domestic violence when families and victims are outside a church environment.

I do a bit of work with the St Vincent de Paul Society. As far as I can tell, most of the people we help are not Christians, and in many cases have had no experience of a church whatsoever. But stories about DVO’s (Domestic Violence Orders) are common. Just about every month I’d hear a few, and in nearly every case, the perpetrators are anything but religious.

As far as I’m concerned, the authors have an anti-Church agenda. And the particuiar “church” they were talking about was not the Catholic Church. But they can write their articles in such a way it makes all churches look like offenders.

I came through a family which had some domestic violence issues, although it was mainly psychological cruelty, with the occasional physical action thrown in. And I can assure you that religion had nothing to do with it.

It’s just another example of church bashing. They’ll answer for it one day.

As Christ put it …

"Matthew 12:36 NIV

But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

That will apply to both the spoken and written word - journalists, politicians, lawyers, and shock jocks please note.

 

[Vanny]

I believe the authors have an agenda and a twisted view of churches. They never explained why infrequent church attenders were the ones with the abuse problem and equated denominations with male only clergy with headship theology. The authors are making this appear to be something that is coming from the Church itself.

Exactly what I got out of it, as well.