Stumbled over something - spanking for God.

Yes, I know some people practice DD, but it creeps me out when people try to use religion as a guilt trip for it.

It's odd that it always seems to be 'Christian' (for a given value of Christian) sites that promote this lifestyle - where are the pagan/Muslim/Bhuddist/whatever ones?

Some forms of paganism are supposed to have had ceremonial whippings/switchings, and the Muslims (according to the popular media, anyway) certainly seem to have the idea of the man as HoH. While Bhuddists are generally thought of as anti-violence, Zen Buhddist masters are portrayed as using blows to force their disciples into new patterns of thinking - so "Get over my knee, Grasshopper - and I'll show you what the sound of one hand clapping really is!" is at least a remote possibility...

The Zen Master is more likely to walk around Grasshopper, hitting him with a stick to see if Grasshopper is properly centred. If he is then Grasshopper will ignore the blows and not shift position in the least bit.

Leonard Cohen spoke of Sasaki Roshi (who ran the Buddhist monastery where Cohen was ordain) as loving him enough to strike him. I couldn't find that interview, but there was something online where Cohen speaks of the masters hitting the students with sticks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-BIp7yeJ94

But that was never dressed as domestic discipline.

That pamphlet might not have mentioned Christianity, but the linked website (http://learningdd.com/blog/addressing-spanking-issues-reaching/ ) refers to it... or did. We seemed to have exhausted its bandwidth (at least that's how I'm interpreting the payment screen that now comes up).

If I may chime in here for a minute, I'd just like to say that for the record, this type of behavior is in no way biblical as it pertains to a husband dealing with his wife. The CDD lifestyle is just that, a lifestyle and as such it should be entered into with caution. That being said, I've never agreed with it only because it uses the Bible as the reason men are "allowed" to discipline their wives. My thing is this, if you are a spanko, top, bottom or switch, then just come clean and be straight up about it. For a good number of us here, spanking has been a lifelong obsession, even befode we knew what it was exactly. To spank, be spanked, etc., means something special to each one of us, that's why we in the spanko communtiy are so tight knit. It's a very personal type of kink that requires a great deal of trust and disclosure that isn't easily found. Some love a nice, sensuak trip over another's lap for a slow, rhythmic bun warming that may lead to some very yummy "aftercare." Some of us are stressed out or have issues concentrating, so we need a firm hand, belt, paddle, etc., to keep us on the straighf and narrow that has nothing at all to do with anything erotic. The list goes on. Point being, if you want to spank, then spank, just don't use God as an excuse to whip your wife if you feel she's getting oug of hand.

Gr8 post bunwarmer!

They say at the beginning it's not about making your partner into a child, or changing it to a parenting relationship from a partner relationship, but it clearly is. Any marriage that includes a conversation like this:

"Before I left for work you said you'd get all the laundry done, but it sounds like you've watched TV all day instead. No more TV until the laundry is finished. It's up to you as to when you get your TV privilege back." (taken from the original article, on how to deliver a lecture)

is not a marriage of equals to begin with. That's what you say to a 12 year old. So it seems that spanking, for them, is just an extension of the parenting relationship.

"Before I left for work you said you'd get all the laundry done, but it sounds like you've watched TV all day instead. No more TV until the laundry is finished. It's up to you as to when you get your TV privilege back."

Dipsy, you have nailed it exactly! This is how I would speak to a 12 year old.
I was raised as a Catholic. I attended Catholic school for 12 years. I grew up in an Irish working class neighborhood where there was certainly corporal punishment at home and school. All of this applied to children, never to adults. Yes there was a great deal of drinking and domestic violence but none of that endorsed by the Catholic church. They did not encourage their flock to read the bible, but to follow their teachings. I understand there is a conservative wing of Catholics that has some patriarchal ideas I find rather disturbing.
I spent some time on these domestic discipline sites; most are communities that developed from house groups that formed to promote exclusive male dominance in the family. In college, I hung out with some of these groups so I could avoid "uncomfortable" situations and I was appalled at their personal philosophy and attitudes towards women and homosexuals.
Consenting adults who gain satisfaction from giving and receiving spankings have a right to make that choice. So do those who wish to live in a ritualized DD arrangement. We all have a choice.
Islandcarol

I wonder if we should call it "Theology of the Booty?"

It seems the "normals" try to keep their sesses out of the fire.

Given that I pay my share of the TV services and licence, my watching is not a 'privilege' and woe betide the man who tries to deprive me of it. If he's that upset about the laundry, he knows where the washing machine is - though I doubt if he knows how to use it.

On a more serious note, I think many of these so-called 'Christian' ideas of domestic discipline are based on an interpretation (or misinterpretation) of the teachings of St. Paul, some of which I quote here - out of context:

I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. (1 Timothy 2:12)

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:22)

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband1 Corinthians 7:4)