Well it is in the Bible

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/showing_children_gods_love_wit.php

“It worked for Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz, who applied "biblical discipline" to two of their children. Now one is very, very quiet and causes no trouble at all, while the other is positively angelic. The Schatzes were arrested Saturday morning after their adopted daughter, Lydia, age 7, stopped breathing. She was subsequently pronounced dead. Her 11-year-old sister, Zariah Schatz, remains in critical condition at a Sacramento children's hospital, though she is showing some signs of recovery. The two were adopted at the same time with an infant girl, now 3, from the same African orphanage about three years ago. Prosecutors allege the two victims were subjected to "hours" of corporal punishment by their parents on successive days last Thursday and Friday with a quarter-inch-wide length of rubber or plastic tubing, which police reportedly recovered from the parents' bedroom. Police allege that the younger girl was being disciplined for mis-pronouncing a word during a home-school reading lesson the day before she died. “

Christians, aren’t they such a loving bunch of people? I can hear the screams of the apologists now, “What they did does not represent Christianity you can’t use the minority to describe the majority.” I wouldn’t argue that there aren’t good Christians out there who are motivated by their faith to make this world a better place. We can’t ignore however, the fact that those who are motivated to do good get their inspiration from the same source as those that do evil. That common used phrase, “that’s not very Christian” seems to show an ignorance of what’s written within the Bible. By beating their children the Schatz were simply invoking an old school style of the religion, one that is arguably more in line with Christianity than the modern version. “He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. -- Exodus 21:15”. That quote is only one of many great advices on parenting brought to you by the authors of the book that is supposed to be the guideline of a moral society. Shame on all of us godless heathens who refuse to follow the will of god by creating laws that make it unacceptable to beat children! For shame.