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.
Aaaaaaand another one.
I’m running out of room guys.
Not a Democrat, atheist, or drag queen?
In psychology we call that reaction formation.
umm, it was uhhh, research
–John Kent Tarwater probably
Always the ones you most expect.
Fork found in kitchen.
Yeah. Except, as Trump says, ‘Who would have guessed!?’
He’s trying to be the Ted Haggard of Ohio. Prayer meeting in 3…2…1…
Yeah sounds about right based on the people I knew who went to Cedarville
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.
😂 let me guess… Another conservative weirdo protecting kids in his own unique way?
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.
Castration is not an acceptable punishment. Imprisonment is. Some might argue execution is, I disagree, in theory.
If for no other reason, you cannot trust the right people will be convicted to do such a punishment. Get a hold of yourself man.
That is actually a great point. My comment started from the basis that “we got the right person, and they did what they are accused of”
But you are 100% right. That’s a huuuuge assumption.
What is your viewpoint if that assumption was (for whatever cosmic reason) correct?
Execution. Never castration.
Some could argue that execution is more drastic. Why the first and not the latter?
I am guessing is a matter of cruelty?
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.
As you said though, that’s a Catholic tradition, not Christianity as a whole, and it isn’t directly supported by the Bible. Its their unique interpretation of the act of communion. The actual text seems pretty metaphorical IMO.
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.
Meh… “eat god, become like god” makes no sense.
The whole point of Christianity (at least in this dimension) is that Jesus’ sacrifice is the ultimate mercyful gift fro God to undeserving humans. Participating in the communion is never a power trip to become like god, but a reminder that “you are still standing solely by his grace”.
2 Peter 1:4 - “Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature,having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”
John 17:21-23 - “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”
Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation, circa 318–325 CE - “He became man so that we might become god.”
The concept is called theosis and is developed largely from those two verses and was further contemplated by early Catholics. Whether you become one with the godhead, like unto the godhead, or, such as in Mormonism, can literally become a god-being (though not the God) yourself varies by sect. Most agree that the communion does infer some sort of divine combining of one’s self with the god power. You can also see this concept in the idea of “invite Jesus into your heart”, or the gift of the Holy Spirit. Somehow some part of god is dwelling in you and you are a part of god.
Interesting.
I only know the Protestant flavor of Christianity, and never, in many years, I got that kind of interpretation. It was more like “hey human, you are so doomed. Here you go: salvation. Now, in your unpayable gratitude, go and spread the word of what I’m doing, and do good stuff. Remember, without this gift, you were nothing, so, behave.”
Kind of like tiktokers that give stuff to homeless, trying to become viral… but a bit more ominous…
Sure, glory is promised, but you gotta die first.
Also, this “god entering our heart” seen more like “having the unmeasurable honor of being noticed by this god, and (mind being blown) he cares about me”. So the expected answer is eternal gratitude and a “debt of love”.
Yeah, the debate over the nature of how exactly sacrament works and what the purpose is not a singular belief in Christianity and like the Trinity is one of the things that has been debated within councils and philosophy endlessly. The Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are the main two that hold it physically becomes the body and blood of Jesus. The big Protestant churches run the gamut of “body and blood is present but it’s still bread and wine” to “present in spirit” to “this is bread and wine; the act is symbolic”. That’s also why some can substitute grape juice or water and the act is still valid.
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
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.
Religion is itself a serious mental illness, and often covers other mental illnesses as well. All religious people should be on a watchlist.
Spirituality is as human at this point as language. For better or worse, we need to master and understand the psychology behind it rather than reject it.
I believe everything you said can be accurately applied to organized religion, however. A religious institution will always be corrupted if it persists long enough because it is a form of state power.
Personal practice can be pretty healthy! But of course, since it is a coping mechanism, if mental illness takes over a spiritual person, their spirituality is always going to be at the forefront of their reasoning because it is the mechanism by which we make choices in absense of logic
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.
I agree with you. Religion is the seed from which all those additional horrors can grow.
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.
