dajstill wrote:The thing about rapist and pedophiles (who are just rapist of children) is that not one study has shown signs of rehabilitation being possible. The average pedophile has almost 100 victims. Many pedophiles were once victims themselves. So, the longer we let pedophiles live and dwell amongst us after so called rehabilitation - the more pedophiles we get.
That sounds to me like you're just parroting the words of others, presenting as fact statements for which you have offered no proof whatsoever. That is dangerous and unwise. Who are you to suggest that Yahowah's power to change one's heart is limited to all but a select group of sinners?
dajstill wrote:Ask yourself if you think a person that kills "for fun" can be rehabilitated.
Why? Our opinions about such things are worthless.
dajstill wrote:I was raped as a child
I was raped as an adult.
dajstill wrote: and I can tell you - it is definitely a type of murder. It kills so much inside you. While many people survive rape and molestation and turn out "fine" many people don't. Some people are lost and the longer we allow them to have access to other people the more they take, and take, and take.
Spoken like a perpetual victim, sis. Let it go. It happened, and that was a terrible evil that was done to you, but holding onto the experience isn't going to help you or anyone else. If the rapist did not receive just punishment in this life, that is none of your business. We WANT it be our business, because by God we want to do grievous and long-lasting bodily harm to the one(s) who raped us, but that just isn't our call. Yahowah is the strength of my emotional health. Who or what is yours?
dajstill wrote:Unless you have seen a child who has been the victim of molestation it is hard to understand - but that child dies inside. What is left is simply a shadow of what that once happy, loving, trusting person was.
That is true. But it lasts only if the child is enabled to feel that way rather being encouraged to put it behind them. I do not expect man's mental health professionals to be of much help there at all. It takes Yahowah's Word.
dajstill wrote:Again, the rate of reabuse among pedophiles is almost 90% - even when caught they do it again. Raping children is all they think about, all they dream about, all they plan for.
I would be interested in viewing the notes from the sessions for all the pedophiles you have interviewed who told you that all they think about is raping children, and that that is all they dream about and plan for. Since I know you cannot provide any such documentation, I would again caution you against making such sweeping statements as though they were indeed facts. Perhaps you heard one or more mental health professionals or a jaded police officer or two claim such things. They don't know either. All they have are opinions, for none of them has visited the heart of each and every criminal in the world. So making claims about "all they think about, dream about, and plan for" is just irresponsible and leaves no room whatsoever for the power of Yahowah's Towrah. None. And who are we to so elevate ourselves as to say who will and will not respond appropriately to His Word?
dajstill wrote:...
Here are some studies that will change your mind about thinking child molesters can be helped:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/163390.pdfHere is another one that shows that even if you "think" a child molester is cured, they re-offend "eventually", given enough time, they strike again.
I don't give a damn what man's studies have shown. Man is not Yahowah. Man's statistics are worthless in these matters.
dajstill wrote:To rape, molest, or otherwise sexually assault a child you are already lost.
And everyone else, then, is saved, right? Because they didn't molest a child, or rape this or that person. That sexual perversion of theirs is the one thing that Yahowah just throws His hands up and says, "Darn! Even
I can't forgive that one!" Really, sister? Really? You really ought to remove yourself from the planned hysteria that has been thrust down our throats by the media about this issue. Seriously.
dajstill wrote:Again, the best standard in dealing with child molesters are the ones that YHWH came up with.
Which are what, exactly?
dajstill wrote:Until then, the best you can do is be a very observant parent and do what needs to be done if caught in the act. In the US, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been the victim of some type of sexual abuse by the time they reach 18. The reason we aren't tough on molesters can be linked directly to the catholic church, directly. The protestant church is guilty of the same thing. I saw a rape covered up in a mega church. 10 years later, the pastor made national news for setting a lawsuit for molesting 4 boys. Guess what - he was NEVER tried in a court of law for his crimes. Like Sandusky - he created a "foundation" to help troubled youth that was really used to get access to vulnerable young boys for vulnerable homes for his sexual pleasure. And yet he is still walking around preaching and was recently even crowned "king" in his congregation.
The whole tone of your post, sister, seems to be to inflame our emotions with "Oh my God!" sensationalism. Yes, there are truly evil people walking the earth. Some of them are sexual predators. Most are not. But they are just as evil, just as lost, just as hateful towards Yahowah and His Word. As those who have been blessed with the truth, I believe we ought to be more rational and calm about things. Extremism in describing people we've never even met is really dangerous, I think. Encouraging violence towards anyone is not our right, nor is it becoming to the Family of Yah. It's ugly. It's typical of this world, and we are not of this world.