The rod ? A stick?

Beating?

Many Fundamental Baptist Churches says make sure to cause pain---.

---saying the Bible insists on it., and have children boarding ;schools dedicated to the elimination of will through  beating. ...

(Big documentary on CNN today...)

Disgusting.

What is this? Atheists believe in nothing, Christians can believe anything?

 I've been told that there is no such thing as Cultural Christianity.  That it's so closely intertwined with 'Western' culture that one cannot be a cultural Christian the way that one can be a cultural jew or muslim without strictly holding to the teachings.  If this proves to be the case then there is very little in my heritage that I can cling to and would have to leave my entire Christian upbringing behind simply because I'm walking away from most of the doctrines of Christian Orthodoxy.