NAUGHTY CHILDREN AND THE COMMON COLD
When I first ran into the original of this astounding Sunday School study page, I thought it was a satire, pure and simple. How could it not be! But no, it was the real thing. A lesson for kids. I adapted it, not changing a word or image, though I added Jesus in color, the cautionary black and white background, and the big red letters WHY. The last word on the original page is WHY. Ask the Lord why, it says. That stuck in my head. WHY!
When is smacking a kid Biblical and when is it child abuse. It all stems from this original sin thing. Like everyone on Earth, kids are born sinners. Yes they are. And I am. We get it from Adam the original Daddy. Not that Eve is all Miss Innocence.
On sin, the Bible Psalm 51:4 which I paraphrase says things like your Mom conceived you in sin. Swimming to meet the egg you were a spermatozoon delinquent. And Psalms 58:3 says weâre all a moral mess as soon as weâre born. Speaking lies and stuff. Wait until God gets home. POW.
Foolishness, Proverbs 22:15 says, is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction can drive it from him. (And probably her, I bet.) Proverbs 23:12 warns not to withhold that correction because you worry you might hurt him. âBeatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Beat him with the rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from hell.â
And from colds and flu, too, according to the lesson page.
In Colossians 3:20 it says kids must obey parents in all things for it will make God happy. And confusingly, the next verse says, Fathers âprovoke not your children to anger lest they be discouraged.â
Heaven help us. Do we really have to smote them, or not. And if so, why? Or as Nancy Kerrigan screamed upon being smote, WHY? WHY? WHY?
NAUGHTY CHILDREN AND THE COMMON COLD is an 8x10 dIgital, signed work on paper in an edition of 10.
When is smacking a kid Biblical and when is it child abuse. It all stems from this original sin thing. Like everyone on Earth, kids are born sinners. Yes they are. And I am. We get it from Adam the original Daddy. Not that Eve is all Miss Innocence.
On sin, the Bible Psalm 51:4 which I paraphrase says things like your Mom conceived you in sin. Swimming to meet the egg you were a spermatozoon delinquent. And Psalms 58:3 says weâre all a moral mess as soon as weâre born. Speaking lies and stuff. Wait until God gets home. POW.
Foolishness, Proverbs 22:15 says, is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction can drive it from him. (And probably her, I bet.) Proverbs 23:12 warns not to withhold that correction because you worry you might hurt him. âBeatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Beat him with the rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from hell.â
And from colds and flu, too, according to the lesson page.
In Colossians 3:20 it says kids must obey parents in all things for it will make God happy. And confusingly, the next verse says, Fathers âprovoke not your children to anger lest they be discouraged.â
Heaven help us. Do we really have to smote them, or not. And if so, why? Or as Nancy Kerrigan screamed upon being smote, WHY? WHY? WHY?
NAUGHTY CHILDREN AND THE COMMON COLD is an 8x10 dIgital, signed work on paper in an edition of 10.