Why corporal punishment is the norm - the history of it all

Many people blame corporal punishment on the Bible, saying the rise of Christendom was the rise of corporal punishment of children. Children in the Bible were well-treated, meaning deified by their fathers, and nurtured by their mothers, as extensions of God. So why does society still spank?

It says in Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

This commandment is a common one in the Apostle Paul's writing. Epistles are similar to a district attorney saying "these individual parents know who they are, and they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law". Paul had a legal personality, which God used to preserve, for the time-being, the Jewish tradition of child-friendliness in the Christian church. Many fathers of Hellenistic descent brought with them a spanking and corporal punishment habit. A father who was found guilty of punishing his children was flamed out by the entire church community, in a calculated yet reckless collective act of disfellowship and shunning. This often started with the divorce of a wife, taking the children with her, with the other men in the church guarding her for her safety.

Rome, after a strange, Otherworldly incident involving Emperor Constantine of the Roman Empire, Rome became Christian. This was an omen, in retrospect, to the demolition of child-friendliness in Christendom, and replacing it with reverent child hatred, meaning "if you don't hate children at least some of the time, and allow it, you are an abuser", when there is zero biblical evidence of any credibility for that. All corporal punishment, in practice, was meant for adults who committed a capital offense, meaning children cannot be deemed guilty, at all, for anything.

The pagan cultures of Europe were very harsh and brutal to children, meaning whippings and scare tactics. The German version of Santa Claus comes down from the hills and whips "naughty" children with a tree branch. The Roman Catholic Church preferred pandering to the pagan cultures they held under their umbrella, over forcibly converting them, and part of this pandering was antisocial "tradition", meaning allowing pagan cultures to practice their own parenting customs, which tended to be controlling and punitive in nature. It's called European folk traditions, and in modern anti-spanking Europe, those who cling to these traditions too loudly are seen as the offenders against children. 

The American church is infiltrated with Catholic idolatrous hatred of children, meaning that's where it all started - the advent of Roman Catholicism. Our founding Judaeo-Christian values prohibit any form of entitlement, including using violence to control a child. Most Americans don't know that anti-spanking laws already exist in the Bible. But, more individual Christians all over the theological spectrum are open to anti-spanking beliefs, with even conservative churches dropping statements commanding parents to spank. The Jehovah's Witnesses used to forbid gentle parenting, with an elder at the Kingdom Hall spanking a child. The Catholic church used to encourage parents to do similar things to children. Things are advancing in both conservative denominations.

Who is at fault for religious child abuse? I blame the parents themselves. They actually could have been the Christians they claimed to be while not punishing their children or even lifting a finger, but they chose to be like the hive, and not think for the selves. I am not one to hate whole churches, but individual parents in such churches. Who knows? An Adventist or Mennonite family might be gentle parents like I am? I hate the concept of church bashing, as I have more class than that as an advocate. Most parents in any given American church denomination spank (not so much in Europe these days), but I must presume innocence, and only call them out when they rear their heads. Religion is not abuse. Misuse of religion coupled with punishment is.

I have a legal trauma, in textual format. Section 509 of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code is the most offensive law to my trauma. I don't want laws like this to even exist. When I feel uncomfortable about a parent punishing a child, I want to be able to call the police and have the parents ticketed and investigated for harassment or disorderly conduct, depending on whether the parents are in an apartment complex abusing their children or not. Spanking is a mainstay of the "reasonable chastisement" defense. The defense ultimately comes from the Roman legal concept of patrias potestas, and since these laws are conflated with pagan custom, they are idolatry when invoked by a parent, as Roman law has pagan origins, as does the English common law in areas of the law that can be linked to the Bible. Most can. This one can't. I don't even want any punishment or violence against children to exist, meaning erase it and wipe spanking off the face of the earth. It sickens me to know it is here. Any legal excuse threatens my trauma. Put a link to that defense in my inbox, and I'll be enraged. Otherwise, I find my way around triggers.

The Bible never was intended by God to endorse violence and entitlement against children. That comes from imposed extraterritorial law from the United Kingdom, meaning case law, namely that of the case of R v. Hopley (1860), where the High Court of England ruled in favor of corporal punishment for "every parent or guardian" in England and Wales. Before then, it was implied and the authorities looked the other way in the United States, as battery laws did not exist before then, with many legal disputes being able to be solved by a duel...The Bible doesn't allow for any of this, yet the Bible is often cited in defense of these horrendous laws that allow abusers to escape from justice through a legal loophole. 

God's Law is above the law of the land, and thus provocation to anger is an offense perceived by the child (see again Col. 3:21) in a court of law, usually with the mother as a legal advocate, and sometimes someone outside the home in relation to a father (fathers could not divorce the mother of their children - the mother had to officially sign away from him). A divorce over something like that gained the attention of the collective of the church community, in which case the excommunication and shunning of the derelict and entitled parent was very brutal. It's called collective gaslighting, meaning they were flamed out of the church community as a form of disfellowship ritual...The legality of corporal punishment didn't even come from this country, or our objective morals from the Bible. This sort of thing needs to go, now!