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[Joe Bloe]

Doctor Donald Ratcliff (PhD) is a deeply religious lay-preacher at Aldersgate United Methodist Church who also teaches a children's spirituality course at Wheaton College. In this video he is advertising the on-line version of his course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KNk1usCeDg


And now this:

A Christian education professor at Wheaton College whose research focused extensively on children has been arrested. It happened after a months-long child pornography investigation.

Donald Ratcliff, 60, who has been on the faculty at the college since 2006, was charged with two counts of aggravated child pornography.

Police had opened an undercover investigation two or three months ago after they observed Ratcliff's computer trading child pornography online.

http://www.cbn.com/c...-Porn-Charges-/

Ratcliff's web sites are rapidly closing down but I found one of his videos on You Tube. It contained images of other people (adults and children) who probably no longer want to be associated with him, so I edited them out of the version in this post.

[Ungodly]

Here we see yet another example of the fact that being deeply religious is not in any way a guarantee or even a predictor of being moral or ethical.

I really do believe that religious beliefs often, certainly not always, tend to interfere with a person's ability or probability of acting in a decent, ethical and socially acceptable fashion. Without the burden of dogma on their backs people can be expected to do a better job of behaving in a civilized manner.

This guy is as much of a hypocrite as a Catholic priest child molester, he pretends to care for children but he is really feeding his perversion. It raises the possibility that he is consciously and deliberately a fraud, but considering the elasticity of human belief it is entirely likely he thinks he is doing nothing wrong. That's why we build prisons, for people whose inborn genetically coded sense of right and wrong is not operating because of a mental issue or possibly damage caused by religious indoctrination.

Book 'em, Danno.

[nogodbutdog]

People in protected positions of power persistently pervert the privilege. Punish the prick.

[Storybook]

I could smell the outcome coming!

Here we see yet another example of the fact that being deeply religious is not in any way a guarantee or even a predictor of being moral or ethical.

Yet that is not widely understood in this country.

[Cousin Ricky]

Here we see yet another example of the fact that being deeply religious is not in any way a guarantee or even a predictor of being moral or ethical.

Yet that is not widely understood in this country.

That's because religion predicts that being deeply religious is a predictor of being moral and ethical. That religion's prediction is false is immaterial to those who will believe religion instead of facts.

[Joe Bloe]

UPDATE:

Confronted with child pornography charges, Wheaton College professor Donald Ratcliff “intellectually rationalized” the reasons he downloaded, viewed and shared explicit videos featuring girls as young as three-years-old, according to prosecutors.

Ratcliff, 60, of Carol Stream, told investigators it was “potentially therapeutic” and a “healthy alternative” to adult pornography. He also said research in Europe determined viewing such images was a way to avoid becoming a pedophile.

http://glenellyn.pat...il-in-porn-case

Also in the same article:

“He indicated his behavior, for the most part, is moral.”
Except for those times when he is being immoral.

[Great Ape]

Confronted with child pornography charges, Wheaton College professor Donald Ratcliff “intellectually rationalized” the reasons he downloaded, viewed and shared explicit videos featuring girls as young as three-years-old, according to prosecutors.

Ratcliff, 60, of Carol Stream, told investigators it was “potentially therapeutic” and a “healthy alternative” to adult pornography. He also said research in Europe determined viewing such images was a way to avoid becoming a pedophile.

A healthy alternative to adult pornography? Really? Really??? Wow, that is something there. I have no respect for a person that lies to their self. You can lie to others, but how do you lie to yourself? I wonder if he actually believes this crap.

Meh, I am sure he knows what he was doing is wrong. This is just an attempt to make himself look better. Total fail though.