Thom Hartmann: The Plot to turn your Kids into Religious Warriors

[thomhartmann]

Katherine Stewart, Journalist / Author "The Good News Club" joins Thom Hartmann. The radical right is on a mission. But are they REALLY trying to use the public schools to turn your children into religious warriors?

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[Stephanie Kopf]

1. Kids Turned into Religious Warriors

This is an international occurence, I think. Germany might be another case.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. We must pass laws that would distincively disallow

any religious organization from using the public school space for ANY reason whatsover. In my school district, the wrong=right wing school board is pondering, or shall I say, pushing allowing the sales of adspace on the public school busses to religious organizations. The ACLU needed to intervene when the board passed the teaching of creationism alongside science in public schools. The state had to then override that decision by setting a strict standard of what science is and how it will be taught in the public schools.

These fundamentalists are dangerous radicals who believe their way is the only way, which of course, goes along with thier teachings (myths) that THEY are the only "saved" ones.

[freshwest]

4. They're doing it already with the charter schools. First it was vouchers to take the kid out. Now,

They've come back to take the public property, land and buildings and equipment as well. After kicking out the public school teachers first.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. Check out their website: Child Evangelism Fellowship

About Us:

Child Evangelism Fellowship® (CEF®) is a Bible-centered, worldwide organization that is dedicated to seeing every child reached with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, discipled and established in a local church.

http://www.cefonline.com/

If you look at their programs, you'll see they're not only targeting public school students, but also children of military families ("Want your dad to come back from Afghanistan? You'd better believe in Jesus!&quot , children of prisoners -- pretty much anywhere that a child is vulnerable to their brand of bullshit.

[bjobotts]

5. Another version of Jesus Camp.

"Give me a child for the 1st 7yrs of his life and I'll give you back a Catholic for life"
The audacity of installing faith through fear of punishment into a child's mind is Godless. This Christian mythology is pushed into these innocent minds as fact...as reality when it is really a belief system. At this early stage of child development this is just brainwashing...nothing holy about it...and in America.

Are we also gonna have a presidential debate again this election cycle monitored by tele-evangel preacher in a mega church...in America??? I am so sick of Christians of this sort who have been brainwashed to accept complete fantasies and insist on indoctrinating everyone who will listen closing their minds to any fact or information that doesn't fit into their "belief" system.

Here is the reality of God. To say I think is like saying I digest my food or beat my heart. Thinking happens. WE are not our thinking we are the observer of our thinking. Awakening happens as we learn to separate thinking from awareness.
Being in the present moment without thinking...is Being.
God doesn't do anything. He's God...there's nothing he needs and certainly nothing he 'forgot' to do. He's already done it. He just IS. Getting the picture...God just IS and awareness without thinking is Being and that is what God IS. When you are in the present moment without thinking...just being aware of your breathing...being here now...then you are beyond the world of form and one with all Being. Looking into a cloudless blue sky is formless infinity and just being aware...without thought is temporarily being one with God who just is...but then thinking takes over pulling us back into the world of forms...into our separation identity. This is the God reality.