How bigotry is rationalized

What follows is an excerpt from a frightening "news" story. I've interspersed it with my comments.

From the Salina (KS) Journal...

"Jesus Camp," now showing at the Salina Art Cinema, is a documentary about the evangelical church movement, and teaching and preaching to young children of that faith. 

No, that's false. It's a propaganda piece portraying one woman's attempt to teach her version of Christianity. Since she refers to herself as a "pastor" and "reverend" she obviously likes to pick and choose which scriptures she'll follow. She is in no way typical of Evangelical Christians.

The film tracks several children from a church in Lee's Summit, Mo., a Kansas City suburb, as they prepare for and attend a religious summer camp at Devils Lake, N.D. 

Time magazine reviewed the film, released in September, with the headline: "A Portrait of Desecrated Childhood."

And they're obviously showing their lack on bias with that headline, right.

 Critics charge the film depicts indoctrination of children to hold conservative political beliefs....

Which would be different from almost any government school's indoctrination into Liberalism and the religion of Evolution, how?

But it's Fischer, interspersed with clips on the opposite end of the political spectrum, from a Methodist minister and Air America liberal talk show host Mike Papantionio, that spark the most lively moments in the film. 

Papantionio tells his audience of listeners that the 25 percent of Americans who describe themselves as evangelicals -- about 80 million people -- are "very tenacious and they elbow their way into positions of power in America. 

Oh, sorry, we didn't get the memo about Christians being stripped of their rights as citizens. 

"That is a group that is committed to, like I say, building a government that they're comfortable with," Papantionio says. 

As opposed to Papantino, the ACLU, the DNC, the Main Stream Media...I could go on and on. What is wrong with a US citizen participating in their right (and duty) to participate and influence the government?

"We've been asleep at the wheel as this conservative, political fundamentalist element has gained too much control and power in this country." ...

Yeah, right. The anti-Christian bigots have been asleep at the wheel. If this is what they do asleep at the wheel, we're in serious trouble if they actually wake up. 

"Where do you cross that line between sharing your faith with your children and someone strapping a bomb on their body because they believe they're going to go directly to heaven?" Shawn Crawford asked. Crawford was one of Sunday's discussion leaders, together with his brother, Brance, and the Rev. Frank Coady, pastor of St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church....

Oh, man. Another Rosie O'Donnell clone. How can someone actually be stupid enough, ignorant enough, dimwitted enough to equate telling a child about Jesus with suicide bombers? This guy's the scary one. If he's so willing to assign such evil to the act of sharing the Gospel, imagine what kind of totalitarian legislation he and other loonies like him could be duped into supporting. 

"For me personally, that line has always been predicated on fear. When religion is predicated on fear, bad things are going to happen," Shawn said. "Because you're fearful, you're willing to do things you wouldn't normally do, to remove what's causing that fear." 

Okay, that explains it. The Bible warns, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." (Proverbs 1:7) That is Satan's oldest trick, convincing people that they needn't fear God.

A statistic from "Jesus Camp" states 75 percent of homeschooled children are children of evangelical families. In answer to a question from the audience, Shawn Crawford said he thinks the popularity of homeschooling is growing because of the assumptions public schools are teaching.... 

Well, duh.

A well-rounded education comes from diversity and interacting with others, Brance Crawford said. 

Depends on your definition of diversity. Would Brance welcome the "diversity" provided by skin-heads, the Klan, pedophiles, Al Quada in government schools? I'd imagine he wouldn't, nor would most people. So obviously he wouldn't define "diversity" as equal exposure to all points of view, yet he isn't all that clear on which points of view he'd exclude. 

"When, all of a sudden, did we get this horrible fear about education and what was taught?" he asked. 

As dumb as his brother, isn't he. When they started teaching perversion as acceptable, dude! That's when.

"I don't think I would have enjoyed hearing from my mom, every day, five days a week. Would she have done a good a job or would there have been an agenda? I wouldn't have had a better view of trying to accept and understand everyone's diversity in thinking." 

LOL, everyone's diversity. Is he actually deluded enough to think that government school allow children to hear all sides? When was the last time you heard of a government school having a former homosexual speak to the students? For decades now we've been trying to get the government schools to simply make the slightest mention that there are real, legitimate, authentic scientists that have problems with Darwinism, but that's been censored all along.

He fears his mom might have an agenda, but the NEA, he's okay with. Where do they find these people.

Posted by Danny Carlton at December 21, 2006 8:13 AM