Redeeming Dinah: **WHAT THEY TELL THE SEXUALLY ABUSED**

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GOTHARD'S TEACHING ON SEX ABUSE

NEARLY COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION OF BILL GOTHARD'S MATERIAL CONCERNING SEX (AND DOMESTIC) ABUSE There are no victims. The post reviews pertinent teachings and materials that discuss sex abuse, magical ways of warding it off, and victim blaming excuses for why it occurs. Some of this is predicated on Gothard's doctrine that Christians have no personal rights but are wholly dependent on God's magical intervention to protect them.
Gothard's Power of Crying Out (book) 2001 The Biblical character, Dinah, would not have been raped if she had cried out and if she had remained at home and holy.

Gothard “Crying Out” Doctrine and Simple Steps to Blaming the Victim, Samantha Field Aug 2015

If you are holy and pure enough, and if you have suffered enough for righteousness, God will magically save you from harm. If you suffer? You missed following one of the steps. View photos from a Gothard ATI notebook.

Gothard says that a 4-year-old boy who is molested is as guilty as his abuser if he doesn't "cry out" - from IBLP Worksheet from a training manual (Via the web archive from Homeschooler's Anonymous) Aug 2016 (added 2021)

DOCTRINAL COMPARISON / CRITIQUE
(Gothard and the IFB Teach the Same Things)

(A Series of Posts)

INDEPENDENT FUNDAMENTAL BAPTISTS:

Link to specific segments on the ABC Website (full show in video above)

The saga of Tina Anderson and her church's tragic and complicated response to her rape by her step-father and another man in her church (who was eventually convicted for the assault). The conflict resulted in a student protest at Bob Jones University and a major investigation of the school's practices in response to sex abuse because of BJU's support of the pastor who governed the local church's response to Tina's mutliple sexual assaults and physical abuse.

Jocelyn Zichterman (author of book, I Fired God) about her sexual assaults and corporal punishment. Includes video clips of Jack Schaap's sermons about aggressive discipline (a megachurch pastor who is serving prison sentence for sex abuse of a sixteen year old he transported across State lines).
Rachel Griffith's account of sex abuse at the hands of her father and now convicted youth pastor at Marquette Manor Baptist Church

Preschool aged children solicit sexual attention from men and are "strange women"

A transcribed sermon of his beliefs that attractive women have poor character, and that any woman or child who is sexually assaulted has merited such because they have the soul of a prostitute. (the King James Version of the Bible transliterates "prostitute" as "strange woman")
audio on archive

Bob Jones University Investigation, Kathryn Joyce in the American Prospect May 2014

Jim Berg, a nouthetic counselor, and others at BJU counsel adult women molested as children and adult women raped on campus to confess their own sin that hides within the sin of their own assault. Highlights the GRACE Investigation at BJU
Video interview with Joyce and transcript about the article, Democracy Now

Samantha Field's personal experience at Pensacola Christian College: required to repent for her own rape by a fellow student

“God's Harvard” (a college “theologically Baptistic” specifically founded with homeschooled students in mind) uses their infrastructure to suppress reporting of sexual assault while shaming and vilifying the abused.

John Piper's advice and confusing “clarification” about statement when asked how women should respond to domestic violence

Original Video (2009)
A wife should take a couple of beatings first and shouldn't be sensitive to “verbal unkindness.” Seek pastoral counseling.

Piper's obsession with sex, mentions “group sex” as comparison to domestic violence (???), and points out very different advice regarding abuse of a child at the hands of a parent

Piper appears to retract his statement several years after colleagues noticed all of the criticisms of his position. PLEASE take note that Piper makes a veiled threat that by reporting abuse to authorities, a wife and her children lose her meal ticket and their father because of the consequences the husband faces for committing violence.

NOTE: John Piper does not affiliate with the IFB, but he grew up across the street from BJU where his father built a Southern Baptist church. His father was close friends with both Bob Jones and John R. Rice, and he carried many of their beliefs over into the tenets of the Southern Baptist concept of patriarchy called “Complementarianism.” He is listed here with the IFB because of the significant influences that I believe shaped his belief system.
ADDENDUM 2021/Editor's Note: The title of this video is "What does a Wife's Submission Look Like...." ( Piper's ties to the founders of the IFB run deep. SM Davis, the current IFB expert in families and children sells DVDs entitled "The 7-Fold Power of a Wife's Submission". I am all too familiar with that term, especially how it is used to title this Piper video. It is a catch phrase used commonly in Piper's Church and was in my spiritually abusive church that I exited in 1997. The term as it is used here and in the Davis book make my skin crawl as a PTSD because of the language and how it is spoken./ CMK)

OTHER BAPTISTS (Includes general physical abuse)

If you submit to a physical beating from your husband and pray, your submissiveness will magically convert your husband and cause him to repent and become a faithful churchgoer.
audio on archive