Hell in a Foster Home, Part II
Today we learn more about Ronald Harold Young, the foster father who has been accused of molesting young boys placed in his care by Washington State’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS).
While she [Wendy Young] worked 12-hour days as a baker, what neighbors and family members saw was an energetic Mr. Mom who cooked and cared for the six young boys and studied to become a minister while they were at elementary school. [emphasis mine]
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In charging documents, prosecutors said that Young admitted to posting the pornographic pictures on the Internet of himself and groups of two and three boys in various sexual acts, including oral and anal sex. Some of photographs were taken as recently as March 15, according to digital date stamps on them.
Social workers at DSHS said yesterday that despite their frequent contact with the Youngs and their foster boys, they saw no signs that the children were being molested.
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Young’s mother, who lives in Alabama, said her son was studying through an Internet Bible school to become a pastor and felt that God had wanted him to be a foster parent.
She said her devout son once worked at a day care and often sent her pictures of his foster boys and talked about trips with them to Seattle and Mount Rainier [emphasis mine].
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Neighbors said that about a year ago, the Youngs were baptized as born-again Christians. They often brought their foster sons to Sunday services and Bible study at the Port Orchard Church of Christ. The Rev. Melvin Byrd said Young appeared to be a stern but loving father [emphasis mine].
The thing that amazes me about this story is that nobody seems to understand that religion IS child abuse. Teaching children to value things that don’t exist more than things that do exist destroys their ability to think clearly and rationally.
To all the people who are involved in this case who maintain that there were no signs that the children were being abused, I can only say that you don’t understand abuse, probably because you were subjected to the same kind of abuse by your own parents. You see the abuse as the “normal” way to raise children.
The human mind is man’s tool for survival. In order to think rationally, the human mind must think about things that exist. It is not possible to think rationally about things that don’t exist because there is nothing to be known about things that don’t exist. There are no relationships to understand about things that don’t exist. THEY ARE NOT THERE!
People get upset about children who are physically beaten and sexually abused, as they should. They would get upset a parent chopped off a child’s arms or legs, but they don’t get upset about parents who destroy a child’s mind and his ability to think rationally. The destruction of a child’s primary tool for survival is the worst form of child abuse.
There were signs of child abuse in this home. Case workers may not have seen the sexual abuse but the poisoning of these young minds was staring them in the face. That was the clue, that was the forest that could not be seen because social workers were looking for a single tree.
People don’t see religion, the substitution of faith for reason and nonexistence for existence, as abuse. They see it as desirable and good. It is much easier to manipulate children whose ability to think rationally has been crippled. Unable to process the evidence around them into knowledge they will accept what they are being told by authority figures in their highly controlled environment as the truth.
In addition, in our culture, you will get all kinds of social support, tax breaks and other benefits, for practicing this particlar form of child abuse. It is a learned form of child abuse and because so many people have been victims of it, they see is as normal, and they have built a social structure that supports and rewards it.
On example of this came before the Supreme Court this past week. Inserting the words “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance, forces anyone who recites the pledge to imply that God exists, in spite of the fact that there is no evidence to support such a belief.
I can’t make this point enough: people don’t see the poisoning of a child’s mind as abuse because it is a ubiquitous and socially acceptable form of child abuse.
The truth is based on existence. There is no truth outside of what exists. Once authority figures can break the connection between existence and truth, once a child can be taught that truth depends on things that don’t exist and faith, the child can be taught to believe anything; evidence and proof no longer have any meaning or value. The child learns that the make-believe world of his parents is preferable to the real world, the one his body was designed to live in.
Hell in a Foster Home, Part I.
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March 28th, 2004 at 10:06 pm
What sort of twisted logic and statistics classes did *you* take? Here you take *ONE* example of a sicko who professes a particular religion and draw a conclusion about all members in that class? Dude, correlation != causation, and your sample size sucks.
Oh, and I’m glad *YOU* have that God thing figured out for the rest of us. Gosh, we should just castrate anyone who believes in the supernatural lest they PROCREATE! And we should bar them from any contact with other children to prevent any possibility of spiritual “brainwashing.” Heck, we should just kill them all just to make sure. A few gas chambers and ovens should do the trick (Godwin’s Law hereby invoked).
Some of us, on the other hand, believe it would be child abuse to raise children with no purpose except Darwinian survival, no standard of behavior other than maximum personal pleasure, and no belief except in that which can be proven.
March 28th, 2004 at 10:28 pm
Read it again. I didn’t say that all religious people sexually abuse children.
I said that religion IS child abuse (I didn’t say sexual abuse) because it destroys the ability to think in rational terms.
I also didn’t suggest castration, barring them from contact with children or killing them. That’s how your mind works.
You make stuff up with no evidence to support you.
Your comment illustrates my point very well. Thank you.