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I was surfing the web when I came across this headline that I could not possibly ignore: “Prayers Needed! Sister’s Daughter May Be Taken From Her for Child Abuse!”

My initial thought was: “What the…? Someone’s daughter is going to be taken away from her? Oh no!” It took a few seconds for the word “abuse” to register in my brain. And when it finally did, I could not resist reading the story.

Apparently, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NPSCC) has caught up to Jean, a mother of a 4-year-old girl named Nakai. Jean writes:

First thing in the morning my 4 year old daughter normally says to me, “I am going to be a good girl today mummy”. When she says this she really means it, and I can see how she longs to finish even just one day in her life without doing anything wrong. However my daughter knows as well as I do that within at the least an hour of saying she is going to be good, that promise will be broken…  So we have a problem, and this is an everyday battle. The problem is sin. I never taught my daughter to sin. This is because she, and as well as the rest of the human race have inherited a sinful nature from Adam. From the moment we are conceived we are sinners, Pslam 57:5. We are born with a desire to sin. We are all born God hating and evil.

Wow. Telling a little girl every day that she has sinned; that she has done wrong, that she is a sinner, that she is evil. And we wonder, 20 years down the road, how a beautiful young woman could turn out to be so screwed up emotionally and mentally. Because YOU made it so. Yes, you, who are supposed to protect and nurture her.

And if reading this post on her blog left me shaken, reading the comments on Word and Verse sent shivers up my spine.

Here are some examples:

What in the world? How dare they? I’m furious!!! May God punish the soul who picked up the phone to call the NSPCC?

More amazing is the sheer number of folks who read their own stuff between the lines and twist what Jean said ….never seen so many straw men in my life.

Sure, what’s next? Calling your child naughty and mischievous will soon be child abuse too?

She’s just stating the truth, and sadly, you just can’t handle it.

What the..? No, seriously. What??? This cannot be serious. I am not sure what God meant for us, but it is certainly not this. Then again, it’s not entirely Jean’s fault. It’s what she has been taught, by her church, presumably. It’s the same thing these other commentators believe. And that scares me even more.

Is this Christianity? It’s definitely not how I know it to be!

I will be praying, not for Jean to keep her daughter by her side, but for her to realise the horrors she is inflicting on poor Nakai.