Pro-social self-loathing: Why parental entitlement is to be avoided

Many parents think that they should have inherent rights just for being a parent. Most parents in America hate the concept of children's rights because it violates the rights of parents. All of this comes from a self-righteous attitude of many adults. The fact of the matter is that adults need to change, not children, and that means all of us as adults, without exception. We need to learn to hate our depraved and decadent sin nature.

It says in Romans 3:9-12 KJV:

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

This passage was written to Roman Christians in the 1st Century, with the Roman Christians becoming prideful and self-righteous in their beliefs in Christianity. The Roman Christians thought that they were the righteous ones just for being Christians. The Apostle Paul was rebuking the Roman Christians on their sense of self-pride and self-entitlement. Today, this passage is a reflection of how God views humanity. God hates us all, so much that He doesn't want us to even exist in relation to Him. By default, all human beings are marked for deletion. Only a few human beings are marked for salvation, with the rest condemned to their fate which is the second death, with that second death being the Hell of fire and torment. God hates us as a species especially because of the one-sided incursions from adult-kind onto child-kind. We as a species are guilty for how we have treated the smallest and most vulnerable of our species since time immemorial.

The Greek root word denoting entitlement, including parental entitlement, in the New Testament, and cross-referencing the Tenth Commandment, is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to, officially speaking, wanting things from children, to the point of imposition. Unofficially speaking, this word refers to wanting things from children, period. It is not good to want anything from children as depraved and decadent adults, but since we all want things from children from time to time, it is good to ask politely and appropriately, accepting when children do not give us what we want, not throwing a temper tantrum because of children not giving us what we want. We as adults are depraved and decadent sinners in relation to children deserving of absolutely nothing from children, and are to be grateful for absolutely everything children bring us, namely joy and happiness. 

Parental entitlement is dealt with specifically in the Bible, and is dealt with in offense format. It says in Colossians 3:21 KJV:

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

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and was understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishment or controlling demeanor towards a child. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children too many times. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen then as holding your child hostage merely for things they did wrong. Paul here was lifting up this legal context to a group of Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular belief, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of children. Paul, here, was lifting up the Law in order to educate Greek and Roman newcomers to the Christian Church about the attachment parenting traditions of the Christian Church.

I, as the adult that I am, am a depraved and decadent sinner deserving of absolutely nothing. I am deserving of absolutely nothing from children especially, as children owe me nothing. Children are extensions of God called to rule over me, and they rule over me while striking reverent fear and terror in my sinful heart. I am an entitled adult and entitled victim who is deserving of absolutely nothing from children. I am grateful for the forgiveness children have afforded me due to my sexually entitled acts towards them, as I am deserving of none of it. I am deserving of everything hateful and resentful from children, and nothing good and respectful from a child.

The parent entitled parents who provoke children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever cast in to the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!