All right, time for our Bible verses.

It's a very powerful one, Matthew 18, 6.

But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me,

it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged around his neck

and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Now, that's interesting.

It's a powerful, powerful phrase.

Now, there are a number of different translations of this, of course,

but scandalize is a very powerful phrase, a word,

because it implies sexual abuse.

And, you know, child rape is one of the, you know,

terrible, horrible, unspoken commonplaces in the world as a whole.

In general, the more ancient the community, the more likely in the world as a whole.

In general, the more ancient the community,

the more likely it is that there will be childhood sexual abuse,

and it will be fairly rampant.

With, to some degree,

the exception of Christianity, because Christianity puts the protection

of children first and foremost according to Jesus.

Now, another way that this is talked about in Matthew 186 is any who would cause the children to sin, or any who would cause the children to sin or any who would cause the children to not believe in me,

any who would cause the children to lose belief in me, any who would cause the children to sin,

anyone who shall scandalize. So this is a wide variety of things. It is child abuse which leads to

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