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.

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      If there is a gambling indicator on who may possibly be arraigned on one of these counts, I think it would fail because now at this point we are try to prove a double double… There is no house for this type of wager.

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        The only way this matters is because they sit at separate tables in the prison cafeteria.

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          Yes they are.

          When the oligarchs want to fuck children, and pour global resources into keeping themselves out of jail while they fuck children, it’s a goddamn ideology.

          My political ideology is also not what you would consider a political ideology, it’s “guillotine the bastards,” and on the political spectrum, it starts at the top, swoops to the bottom, then we get a new head basket.

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            The global oligarchs like many things. Some like children, some like crepes, some like yachts. But these things are as much political ideologies.as the Professor we’re talking about is a global oligarch.

            I get that you want to raise your disdain of something with every chance you can get, but some times the context will make for such a stretch that your words will becomr devalued by your intended audience.

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    Religion is clearly the best grift.

    If he were a Catholic priest he’d have the entire international power of the RCC protecting him. Dude picked the wrong church.

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    So all of these abrahamic religious types really just looooove diddling kids, eh? Fucking hell.

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      Nah. Plenty of Hindus and Buddhists do it too. The problem isnt a specific religion or religions, people who want to hurt others are attracted to positions of authority. Religion offers the best cover.

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        That depends on what role religion plays in a society. In a non religious society, those people are drawn to other positions of authority where they can perpetrate. For instance teachers and social workers are among the worst when it comes to occupations where these people end up.

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      He probably had sex outside of what he thinks was okay and was so mortified that he couldn’t stop himself from doing it over and over and over and over again he decided he needed to teach people the right way so he could save his soul.

      That or he just thought he could make some cash pandering to people.