You gotta check out this website that promotes loving wife spanking.

It's called Christian Domestic Discipline.

A domestic discipline marriage is one in which one partner in the marriage is given authority over the other and has the means to back the authority, usually by spanking.

A Christian Domestic Discipline marriage is set up according to Biblical standards; that is, the husband is the authority in the household.  He has the authority to spank his wife for punishment, but in real CDD marriages this is taken very seriously and usually happens only rarely.

And to really get you in the mood, here is a wife's desciption of her recent Discipline:

I'm not kidding, I felt my stomach drop when I saw my husband bring out a heavy belt.  It is one of those old ones that came with a silver buckle and had a name stamped on it.  He doesn't wear it much anymore because it is to heavy for style today.  I only got seven, which I have to admit I thought was lenient although I was howling the whole time.  I don't get a discipline often and it is amazing how quickly I forget how much it hurts–just a blinding pain.

Unbelievable! And kinda kinky.

(H/T - Sneth & The Merc)

Faithful reader (and City Business General Counsel), Locutus, sends in this link to a Christian video-sharing website called:

GOD TUBE!

And yes, it's as wonderful as you might imagine. Just try searching under the word "homeschool".

Read this story about Benny Hinn from TheStar.com. I've never been a big fan of his and this isn't helping.

After the prayers, songs and preaching from the charismatic minister, Hinn tells the crowd he is getting a message from God that people in the audience are being cured, and he asks them to come to the stage. The Fifth Estate used hidden cameras to show staff screening audience members coming forward, ensuring none with obvious physical ailment get near Hinn.

"It's always somebody that has some kind of illness that can't be readily seen" that makes it to the stage, Justin Peters, a Baptist minister in Mississippi who studied Hinn, tells the CBC.

Hinn says the cures take place in the audience, not on stage, so no one still in a wheelchair is allowed on stage. God, he says, has obviously not cured these people.

"I won't let them up, because they haven't been healed," he says.

The CBC tracked down some of the people claimed to have been cured, only to find that they were either still sick, never had the condition they were supposedly cured of, or had died.

Speaking to the Star, Hinn says he is forced to rely on the word of those coming to his crusades to tell him they are cured.

"It's not my job to claim that they are healed. I have never done that," he says. "I'm not a doctor."

Anytime you put on a rock show (read: worship service) complete with loud music and flashing lights you will find someone who has had a touch from God…loud music, light shows, inspirational talk may give you the warm fuzzies, but it doesn't make the feelings real. Far too many people are suckers who can convince themselves of anything…of course maybe I'm just a pessimist.

Has anyone here been "touched" at a Benny Hinn Concert?

A megachurch in the DC area will begin telecasting their Sunday morning services in a local movie theater.

McLean Bible Church said yesterday that it will take over the theater's giant screen on Sunday mornings for worship services. The church plans to beam its Sunday services from its McLean campus, where 13,000 people worship on average, onto the Uptown's screen for D.C. congregants who want to pray closer to home.

I have been to a few church services in movie theaters, and I'm not a fan.  I find myself craving popcorn and Juju fruits during the entire sermon. And I always walk away from the service feeling as though I just saw a bad film.

I get that using movie theaters is an economical way to provide church, and I'm cool with that. I just don't like watching my pastors on a screen. No matter how big the screen, I always feel as though I'm missing something real.

McLean Bible also has goals to expand beyond just the Theater:

McLean Bible's move to the Uptown is the church's first foray into the District and a linchpin of its plan to create a "spiritual beltway" around the Washington area by opening nine satellite locations

"Spiritual Beltway", "Satellite Location", where do these pastors come up with this stuff? How come every non-denominational mega-church sounds the same? Is there a manual someone passes out?

I should have seen this coming, but there is a huge market for Christian Fantasy books. Books that revolve around a fantasy world but don't mention, you know who…

For a Christian family who's a little skeptical of some of the messages in the Harry Potter books, then they would find my books safe," said Wayne Batson. Batson's Door Within series features teenager Aidan Thomas, who is suddenly plunged into an enchanted world.

For whatever reason, Christians just aren't cool with Harry Potter.

The use of magical powers by humans is a controversial theme for Christian writers and readers. They cite this biblical verse from the book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament: "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead."

As everyone knows, I subscribe to the "If it's in the Old Testament, it's only half-right" philosophy. But I'm cool with this verse.  People really shouldn't be sacrificing their children in the fire, or you know, casting spells. But especially that first part, no burning kids.

My deal with Harry Potter is I never saw the difference between those books (which I admittedly never read) and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (which I also never read, but did see the movies). However, for whatever reason, the Lord of the Rings novels get a pass from the Christian community.

So can someone who has read both novels, tell me the difference between Harry Potter and Gandolph.