A former Cedarville University finance professor whose writings promote a Christian ethic of marriage and sexuality was arrested Tuesday on eight sex-related felony charges involving one or more minors.

The indictment, filed March 27 in Ohio’s Greene County Common Pleas Court, charges John Kent Tarwater with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.

He was booked into Greene County jail in southwest Ohio, where he remained in custody as of Wednesday morning. No defense counsel was listed in public court records, and no hearing or trial dates were disclosed.

  • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com
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    Considering that religious offshoots typically occur because of disagreement in teachings and interpretation, no, they’re not bound to their origins at all.

    symbolic ritual cannibalism

    Lmao, you’re grasping at straws mate.

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      2 days ago

      You are right and wrong.

      Martin Luther had a problem with the idea of transubstantiation, but also rejected memorialism (the idea that you were taking the bread and wine to memorialize Christ’s sacrifice). Martin argued that the literal body and blood of Christ were “in, with, and under” the sacraments. His reforms denied the magical transformation of transubstantiation, but vehemently defended the literal presence of Christs blood and flesh in the sacraments.

      In other words, symbolic ritual cannibalism. Maybe some modern protestant offshoots disagree, but this is definitely not contained to catholocism.