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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Thu Jul 24, 2014, 05:37 AM Jul 2014

Right-Wing Christians Tell Others' Kids 'Convert or Go to Hell,' Then Accuse Liberals of Indoctrinat

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Right-Wing Christians Tell Others' Kids 'Convert or Go to Hell,' Then Accuse Liberals of Indoctrinating Christian Kids



For the masochists among us who tune into right-wing media, you soon learn that the all-time favorite fear pundits and preachers love to trot out is that “they” are coming for your children.

Whether it’s liberal college professors supposedly turning kids to Marxism or gay people who are accused of recruiting, over and over you hear the claim that the children of conservatives are in serious danger of being talked into everything from voting for Democrats to getting gay-married.

It’s a peculiar thing to obsess over, and not just because it suggests conservatives have an unhealthy unwillingness to allow their children to grow up and think for themselves. It’s because the imagined conspiracies of liberals trying to “indoctrinate” kids are total phantoms. A little digging shows that accusations of indoctrination are usually aimed at attempts to educate or simply offer support and acceptance. While there are always a few rigid ideologues who are out to recruit, by and large liberals are, well, liberal: More interested in arguing and engaging than trying to mold young people into unthinking automatons.

But I think I know where conservatives get the idea that other people are sneaking around trying to indoctrinate children into unthinking ideologies. It’s because they themselves are totally guilty of it, both in terms of trying to recruit other people’s children and trying to frighten their own children about the dangers of exploring thoughts outside of the ones approved by their own rigid ideologies.
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Right-Wing Christians Tell Others' Kids 'Convert or Go to Hell,' Then Accuse Liberals of Indoctrinat (Original Post) xchrom Jul 2014 OP
They project like a drive-in JHB Jul 2014 #1
And, isn't just this particular issue, either Cosmocat Jul 2014 #4
Their way or no way malaise Jul 2014 #2
Their definition of persecution is being told they can't force their beliefs on others. Arkansas Granny Jul 2014 #5
Last week I ran into three friends in a supermarket malaise Jul 2014 #6
I have an old friend - guy I worked with for 25 years - who's a Born Again. Every holiday Flatulo Jul 2014 #3
Religion is an excuse for idiots amuse bouche Jul 2014 #7
There needs to be a blurbish meme on this Android3.14 Jul 2014 #8

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
4. And, isn't just this particular issue, either
Thu Jul 24, 2014, 06:48 AM
Jul 2014

they have become so pathologically deranged, on almost EVERY issue, they project what they do/want on the evil liberal boogyman, and sadly have devolved to such an extent that not only can they not see it, you can't even try to calmly explain it to them.

This kind of shit has only gotten worse in the least quarter century ...

Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
5. Their definition of persecution is being told they can't force their beliefs on others.
Thu Jul 24, 2014, 06:52 AM
Jul 2014

It has nothing to do with religious freedom, as they claim.

malaise

(267,824 posts)
6. Last week I ran into three friends in a supermarket
Thu Jul 24, 2014, 07:06 AM
Jul 2014

The uncle of one of them had just been buried after suffering for ages from cigarette related lung cancer. So we got to talking about euthanasia. Another friend joined us and she had this lady with her who I didn't know. So she jumps in with the only person who decides when you die is gawd. Turns out she is one of these born again loonies.

Did we ever put her in her place. "How dare you attempt to impose your views on the rest of us", I asked before walking away and leaving her talking to herself. Seriously they are rude and obnoxious.

 

Flatulo

(5,005 posts)
3. I have an old friend - guy I worked with for 25 years - who's a Born Again. Every holiday
Thu Jul 24, 2014, 06:43 AM
Jul 2014

season he sends out an impassioned email to his work friends, begging them to find Jesus lest their immortal souls burn in hell for all eternity.

I've always kind of side-stepped the appeal, replying with something like 'Thanks, bro - I hope you and your family have a lovely Christmas and New Year.'

This year I responded that Sorry, I just didn't have any religious beliefs, and if I were to pretend that I did, it would be meaningless and insincere, because in fact I'm an atheist.

I haven't heard from him since. He probably wants to avoid the blast crater.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
8. There needs to be a blurbish meme on this
Thu Jul 24, 2014, 08:36 AM
Jul 2014

Something like a picture of a kid talking to another kid with a speech balloon, "You want to know the Truth?" and beneath it "When a Christian does it, they call it evangelizing. When an atheist does it, they call it indoctrination. Stop religious hypocrisy."

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