The Responsibility of the Schatz

Another disgusting couple has abused their children to the point of death. This time blaming Mike Pearl and No Greater Joy ministries. Bloggers are having a hay day, using these evil people as evidence that the Pearls are evil.
As ridiculous as this is it's not surprising. We live in a country of blame. No one wants to take responsibility for their own actions! Thieves can successfully sue their victims because they were hurt on their property, women who spill hot coffee on themselves can sue the people that made the coffee. State of mind can excuse almost every crime and don't forget to look at their past! Planned parenthood tried to stop a pro-life commercial from being aired because it may "MAKE" women choose not to abort.
Wake up people! No person or book can MAKE you do anything! God gave us free will and we are responsible to use it! We will all be judged "According to our own works".
I have read the Koran and it didn't make me Muslim anymore than reading a cook book makes me a cake. The Schatz may have read some of the Pearls advice but they certainly didn't follow it.
Abusers are evil, twisted people. My paternal grandfather would beat his kids with his fists and" preach" the Bible. My husbands grandmother would play gospel records while abusing kids and telling them that God hated them.
THEY were evil, NOT God's word.
On a smaller scale. for those who are not abusive, the fact is that several people will read the same thing in different ways. Based on childhood. the word "spank" means BEAT to some while meaning a slight sting on the rear to others.
The Pearls don't always word things clearly or give perfect advise but the absolutely DO NOT encourage abuse. Ask their own adult children! They even suggest that spanking not be a part of training after age seven. And contrary to the LIES I have seen told on several blogs, They DO NOT tell women to accept abuse.
And, by the way, if they did, I would have enough sense to ignore it.

I hope that the Schatz spend every last day of their lives in prison for their atrocious crimes.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.Titus 1:15