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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/30/christian-fundamentalists-plan-teach-genocide
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)"Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast" [Reflections on Religion, 1906]
Mark Twain
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Anyone teaching this poisonous insanity, much less to children, should be dropped at the South Pole with shorts and mosquito netting. Why do we have to read about this madness in a British paper? Fundamentalist religion will be the literal death of humanity if it is not stopped.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Part of the instruction is a very explicit reference to the biblical story of Saul and the Amalekites:
Saul dutifully exterminated the women, the children, the babies and all of the men but then he spared the king. He also saved some of the tastier looking calves and lambs. God was furious with him for his failure to finish the job.
//snip
"That was pretty clear, wasn't it?" the manual tells the teachers to say to the kids.
//snip
And finally, when does a religious group qualify as a "hate group"?
Mister Ed
(5,940 posts)PDJane
(10,103 posts)I'm convinced that this kind of religion should be annihilated wherever they show up. No mercy. This isn't civilized. It's time to drop the stuff that was used to frighten the kids into obedience and belief thousands of years ago.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. " -- Karl Popper
PDJane
(10,103 posts)And any woman who relies on birth control or wants an abortion. It's time to end this.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)The danger of religious fundamentalism and eliminationism is underrated by most liberal and mainstream Americans.