Terrorizing Children in the Name of God is Legal in the U.S.
I ran across this site (link below) while doing research on authoritarian religion, adverse childhood experiences, and early brain development. Posted was a story being taught to young children from Grace Baptist Church in California. It’s a lesson adapted from II Kings 2:23-25. Take special note of "The Curse" and following lesson. It's about a 3-minute read.
Brace yourself, it's exceedingly alarming.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Seem ironic that the poster above has the scouts that will not allow Atheists to join.
Charliesey
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Feb 8, 2019
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I do not know if Catholics still use this prayer (I hope not). It is what we were taught to say while on our knees before crawling into bed: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." Really gives you the warm fuzzies.
MikeEC
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Apr 27, 2018
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Abuse of power is bad, be it parents, preachers, teachers, politicians, organisations, corporations. But I must admit sometimes I wish I could get bears to eat people!
girlwithsmiles
Level 8
Apr 27, 2018
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The bear looking like "Smokey is quite a touch! I have a friend who lives in Israel. She and her husband started one of the first Kibbutz there in the late forties. I sent this to her for her opinion.
Angelface
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Apr 22, 2018
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I heard back from my Israeli friend. She lives in an area that has almost daily suicide bombers and discovered tunnels and knife-wielding assailants, so she lives on the front lines of instilled hate from brainwashed Palestinians.
While she is not religious and not demonic as many attempt to paint her merely for her nationality, she is proud of and lives by her heritage. She grew up in the Belgian Congo and was in boarding school in Paris in the early days of WWII. She is also a survivor of the kindred Jewish ships that were denied safe harbor at many Western ports due to her being a Jewish child. So she had direct experience of hate and calculated misinformation and propaganda.
She stated that the sermon was made up of calculated lies, entirely untrue according to Jewish texts concerning both prophets. She did say they had something similar there with strict Hassidic and other strict orthodox Jewry.
Is that the scariest picture of a bear they could find?
Coffeo
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Apr 14, 2018
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@VictoriaNotes Yes, I recognized Smoky. He looks nice.
@VictoriaNotes It depends. What age group is expected to see this poster? Who produced it? I may be missing something.
@VictoriaNotes Got it!
I have told this story Christians who insist I am making it up, and when I show them it in the bible they insist it is either not a "proper bible" or I get the "even the Devil can site scripture" cliché
LenHazell53
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Apr 12, 2018
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Yep, scare the kids into saying they believe, give them nightmares until they are old enough to rebel against such cruel scare tactics and enlightened enough to see it for what it is. Do these ignorants actually believe scaring little children will make them love and respect God? There is no doubt in my mind this is child abuse.
misstuffy
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Apr 11, 2018
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Sounds like a preacher was offended by kids falling asleep while he was preaching (egocentric?) and decided to terrorize the children by telling them a story of how his "God" hates kids. Religious are in denial when it comes to hateful behavior by their god. "God doesn't hate", yet the stories to support their view of discipline are filled with hate! This is all tied up with the paternal archetype of God/god. "Spare the rod, spoil the child!" My father said this in my childhood at least once that I can remember. And not sparing the rod is deep in a child's mind. Maybe they never experienced carporal punishment, that doesn't mean they don't understand the concept of a angry father lashing out at his children. A child is aware of their physical vulnerability with a father much larger then they are. All it takes is a father raising his voice and threatening with physical harm to get the idea across. So "the Bible is always real"? In closing, the cruel, vicious, thoughtless, selfish behavior perpetrated by religious appalls me!
I_dont_know
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Apr 11, 2018
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I am sure that bears have indeed eaten children... and adults. Humans also eat bears.
Nature is kinda rough that way. I don't buy the fiery horses though, or the bit about god.
If I am eaten soon, my wife will post here in case anyone needs to rethink the whole god business. Think I am gonna be fine though.
I am taking a real risk here for science, people.
arnies
Level 7
Apr 11, 2018
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Why should this surprise anyone? This kind of brainwashing is far too common. Anything to get the kids hooked and the earlier the better. Eventually, even the adults believe this crap.
BTW, the issue of the magazine "Trumpet" which I posted several months ago, has similar nonesense but for adults. Too many adults believe this. I just got my latest FFRF newsletter and my letter on this was printed. To the religious there is a war on and no one is immune especially children.
JackPedigo
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Apr 10, 2018
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@VictoriaNotes Yes, I have heard of all of them. Funny you should mention Chick-fil-A (where did that name come from?). On my recent trip with my daughter they stopped in one of these drive-ins. I made a comment about it but they said they didn't care - they just liked the food! I will send your link to them.
@AncientNight Fortunately, the German people had a completely different political system. I had a very good friend who was in an American POW camp and he said learning about democracy changed his life. Our system is supposed to protect us from such criminals and some parts are starting to work.
@AncientNight this is very common but unfortunately, ignorance of what goes on in war only beats more wars.
My uncle, a German, fought for 4 years in a tank on the Russian front. He got captured and sent to a gulag in Siberia. He wrote a book and even added some illustrations. One copy was translated which I have. The reason for the book was he compiled a long list of those who died and he wanted some of those names to get out.
He felt no guilt because it was war.
@AncientNight My family always thought our uncle was a Nazi, this is a common misconception. Hitler gave special emphasis on Tank people and gave them black uniforms.He had a picture of himself in this uniform and they automatically thought he was SS. I had to point out he was not in the Nazi party (it is not like here in that they had to actually join) and he didn't have the double haken on his uniform. They know nothing of the history and culture of the time and I don't think they fully believed me. He lived the last 40 years of his life in Dallas, Tx. and identified as a Democrat.
Holy shit is all I can say. Inventing bible stories to control children and their obedience training like a dog. Sad.
sassygirl3869
Level 9
Apr 10, 2018
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That is sick! I don't have a vomit emoji, sorry.
Sarahroo29
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Apr 10, 2018
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it's called 'Religion'....been doing it for centuries across the globe.
DrewShourd
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Apr 10, 2018
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Elijah, like most other christians, he went to heaven.
I wonder how many other jews the grace baptist church thinks were christians?
Uncorrugated
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Apr 10, 2018
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