Why our Christian family values as a society prohibit spanking children

 Many parents in this country find parenting advice in their religious values. The dominant and founding values in the United States is Christian in nature. Many parents misuse these values to justify child abuse, namely the lawful physical battery against a child.

America is a Christian nation, founded on Judaeo-Christian family values, meaning non-entitlement and respect for children in parenting. The Greek root word cross-referencing the Tenth Commandment not to covet denotes an attitude of entitlement, and is indicated by the Greek root word πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers, in this context, to the entitled attitude of "I am a good parent, and so my child and everyone else owe me respect" leading to demanding, controlling, or spousifying behavior. It is wanting from a child to the point of seeking to impose said want onto a child, leading to theft/abuse.

Parenting in ancient Israel was based on the concept of mutual submission, meaning parents surrender their power and prowess over children, leading to surrender from the child in the form of cooperation and friendship with parents, with parents and children seeing each other as pals. It states in Ephesians 6:1-4 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. The first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live upon the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to surrender to parents, thereby coming from parental surrender to children, based on the concept of Christian love, denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao). This refers to submission to the every vulnerable need of a child, knowing that one is evil and wicked in relation to their child for their mere existence, just as mankind is guilty for his lowly existence in relation to God, serving children in an attendant manner, with said child being in place of the Lord, with a child being one of the "least of these" handed in front of parents for care and protection. Parents are to submit to the every need of a child, including attachment needs, from beneath yet from above. The Greek root word translated "nurture" refers to discipline, and is denoted by the Greek root word παιδεία (Latin: paideia) and refers to self-discipline and self-control, modeled by co-regulation. Parents remained calm and stoic in the biblical context, but in a listening way, with children emulating said discipline, with boys receiving a religious education from their father in a homeschool. The Greek root word "admonition" is translated νουθεσία (Latin: nouthesia) and refers to simple, verbal correction on occasion, namely the word "no" or its various variants...Parents were seen as servants, meaning an attendant and slave to the child's needs, and didn't complain about it. Parenting was a selfless endeavor, not an excuse to impose power and control on children. I myself see myself as a servant to the needs of children, which usually means avoidance.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to wrath" is παροργίζω (Latin: parorgizo) and refers to damages such as pain, shame, emotional distress, defamation of character, loss of possessions/tokens, and/or fornication. Whatever the child perceives as abuse is in fact such, objectively so, as children do not lie about abuse. The law of the land may disagree, but God's Law is above the law of the land, meaning spanking is already banned, as far as my values are concerned.

Christ came not to repeal the Law, but to uphold the Law, thus taking it further. There is nothing in the Law, contrary to myth, that allows for the punishment or control of a child. The Law did allow for corporal punishment, but only for adults who were found guilty of a crime, namely a capital offense. The punitive nature of the Law, in terms of physical brutality (which was already rare then - about 1 or 2 times in a century, in a settlement), was repealed, and replaced with the concept of shunning, meaning avoiding your enemy, with theft, instead of being a list of tenets, being any damages imposed upon your neighbor, judged in the form of pro-social mob, but with Christians taught to turn the other cheek. The Bible serves a vehicular purpose - to lift up Judaeo-Christian family values, and transport them to the Western world, including the United States.

We have been wrong about Scripture before, as a collective religious society. I can't think of a single conservative that advocated to bring back slavery or Jim Crow laws, and those that do tend to be on the fringe of conservatism these days. I am predicting that, one day, it will be that way about punishing and controlling children, including spanking them, to conservatives. We evolve, but much slower than most Americans. We are more cautious of rapid change. But, something needs to change with the status of children in this country. Most conservatives that are bigoted still are older, and it has to do with the environment they grew up in, meaning conservatism will still exist, but hate is thankfully dying, including hatred of children, even among conservatives. Things are changing, so let's put our input into the pot, and see how things play out.

The depraved and entitled pro-spanking and permissive parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! You shall not exist, dear punitive parents, except while not on this earth - behind closed bars! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!...Children have been enslaved by adults, so flip the scripts - I enslave myself to THEIR needs.