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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Thu Jul 24, 2014, 07:07 AM Jul 2014

Right-Wing Christians Tell Others' Kids 'Convert or Go to Hell,' .....

....Then Accuse Liberals of Indoctrinating Christian Kids...
Wait..WHAT?

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.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/right-wing-christians-tell-others-kids-convert-or-go-hell-then-accuse-liberals-indoctrinating

Hey I know, if you have to push your beliefs on others, it must not be too good of a product....just sayin'

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Right-Wing Christians Tell Others' Kids 'Convert or Go to Hell,' ..... (Original Post) doxydad Jul 2014 OP
your last sentence sums it up perfectly. hobbit709 Jul 2014 #1
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