christian fundamentalist kids in the us being taught genocide is ok

Don Quixote said:
the article speaks for itself...wtf

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/30/christian-fundamentalists-plan-teach-genocide
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Poison the minds of the young in preparation for the 'purge'....these are the same people that also teach that slavery is holy.

<snip>The story of the Amalekites has been used to justify genocide throughout the ages. According to Pennsylvania State University Professor Philip Jenkins, a contributing editor for the American Conservative, the Puritans used this passage when they wanted to get rid of the Native American tribes. Catholics used it against Protestants, Protestants against Catholics. "In Rwanda in 1994, Hutu preachers invoked King Saul's memory to justify the total slaughter of their Tutsi neighbors," writes Jenkins in his 2011 book, Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses (HarperCollins).

This fall, more than 100,000 American public school children, ranging in age from four to 12, are scheduled to receive instruction in the lessons of Saul and the Amalekites in the comfort of their own public school classrooms. The instruction, which features in the second week of a weekly "Bible study" course, will come from the Good News Club, an after-school program sponsored by a group called the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). The aim of the CEF is to convert young children to a fundamentalist form of the Christian faith and recruit their peers to the club.

There are now over 3,200 clubs in public elementary schools, up more than sevenfold since the 2001 supreme court decision, Good News Club v Milford Central School, effectively required schools to include such clubs in their after-school programing.

The CEF has been teaching the story of the Amalekites at least since 1973. In its earlier curriculum materials, CEF was euphemistic about the bloodshed, saying simply that "the Amalekites were completely defeated." In the most recent version of the curriculum, however, the group is quite eager to drive the message home to its elementary school students. The first thing the curriculum makes clear is that if God gives instructions to kill a group of people, you must kill every last one:

"You are to go and completely destroy the Amalekites (AM-uh-leck-ites) – people, animals, every living thing. Nothing shall be left."
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"That was pretty clear, wasn't it?" the manual tells the teachers to say to the kids.

Even more important, the Good News Club wants the children to know, the Amalakites were targeted for destruction on account of their religion, or lack of it. The instruction manual reads:

"The Amalekites had heard about Israel's true and living God many years before, but they refused to believe in him. The Amalekites refused to believe in God and God had promised punishment."
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The instruction manual goes on to champion obedience in all things. In fact, pretty much every lesson that the Good News Club gives involves reminding children that they must, at all costs, obey. If God tells you to kill nonbelievers, he really wants you to kill them all. No questions asked, no exceptions allowed.<snip>
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They'll make good little obedient fascists out of them yet....great teachings for a democracy don't you think?
 
I realize you didn't ask me....however.....I didn't read the entire article but we've exported our own brand of religious crazy to England among other places. I just finished the entire article and it is about American schools however I'm sure it exists in England and elsewhere. A true American export. You are correct...it's not about the UK.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Am I missing something? What does this have to do with the UK apart from quoting from a UK newspaper?
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No, this is happening in the US. The first hint was that the subtitle talked about the group subverting the separation of church & state. The UK has no such separation.
 


Its nonsense....not worth a serious retort....



Just another left wing attack on Christians thats been going on for a decade.....
 
General Rule: During school hours, outside religious organizations and clubs must not meet at public schools. After school hours, such groups may meet at a public school only if the school permits other outside clubs and organizations to meet at the same time and does not endorse the club's religious activity.

May religious clubs meet in public schools?
During school hours: An outside religious organization or club must not meet at public schools.

After school hours: An outside religious organization or club may meet at a public school under the following circumstances:
  • The group may meet only if the school allows other outside organizations or clubs to meet at the same time.
  • The school must assume the duty of ensuring that it does not appear to be endorsing or disapproving of religion.
  • The school district must proactively work to prevent even the perception that it may be endorsing the club's religious activity. In Good News Club v. Milford Central School, 533 U. S. 98 (2001), the U. S. Supreme Court found no perceived endorsement of a religious club's activities because the club meetings were not held in elementary school classrooms, the instructors were not school teachers, the students ranged in age, and the children who attended the club had obtained signed permission slips from their parents.
  • The school may not allow the club or organization to solicit students, unless it allows all groups to do so. If the school allows such solicitation, it must make sure that no proselytizing or religious message is part of the communication.
  • A school district must take extra care to make sure that students from minority religions are not teased or made to feel unwelcome or left out merely because they choose not to attend a religious club meeting.


Based on these rules, it looks like the sky is not falling after all.
 
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