From Zenoferox
Let's read a recent AiG fundraising letter for their "Creation Museum":
Let's read a recent AiG fundraising letter for their "Creation Museum":
We see the Lord's hand of blessing every day at AiG, including how so many young people are being impacted. Here is a recent, wonderful testimony about a young girl and her mother that we received through our website:“The AiG conference [near Knoxville] was wonderful. Ken [mentioned] one book in particular, A is for Adam, had more children come to know Jesus than any other [AiG book]. My ears perked up and I bought the book.
“My 4 1/2 year daughter and I read the book every day for a week. One day she looked up at me with tears in her eyes and said she didn't want to go to hell. She said she wanted to be where Jesus—and where her mommy and daddy—was going to be.
“My little girl bowed her head and prayed to ask Jesus into her heart that day. It was glorious. thank God for how you have touched our lives.”—G. D., Knoxville, TN
Compare this to:
Your average, every day fundies.
And these same stupid fuckers will turn around and watch Faux News when it shows the children in Jordan and Syria in school being taught to hate Israel and call it "brainwashing" without batting an eye. Irony so thick it isn't even funny. It would be sad if it was just an isolated incident, rather than a culture of ignorance and fear. But because it is, it's more than sad -- it's physically sickening, and inspires in me a righteous indignation.
Little Johnny, if you don't kiss God's ass enough, you'll go to an awful place where mommy and daddy won't be, and be tortured forever. You better tell God you're sorry, over and over and over, until God decides that's good enough and doesn't throw your worthless ass into the Pit. Doesn't God love you? Don't you love GAWD?
These are our "cultural competitors": this is what freethinkers are up against in the public square, to move our country in one direction or another, via politicians and public relations campaigns. They have massive organizations, fundraising drives, and the fear of hell to motivate them forward. This is the sort of thing they propagate -- fear and ignorance in little children. We need a kick in the pants sometimes to remind us that we are fighting a good fight against these sorts of people. We need to remember how immoral, how intellectually bankrupt, these kinds of people are. It will keep us motivated.
My "purpose" and "meaning" don't involve brainwashing my children to obey a magical invisible Sky Daddy out of fear. They involve teaching my children the value of goodness for goodness' sake, and how to think rationally and critically, and how to live in reality and make a change here, now.
Keep this "testimony" in mind the next time they shamelessly call themselves "pro-family" and "pro-values". The next time you see their slick suits and smiles, think of the tears in her eyes. Don't forget that.
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...the atheistic/humanistic FIG organization that opposed us was out to get kids themselves—to train them in a philosophy of hopelessness and purposelessness … and end up separated from God for eternity...What Ken Ham is referring to here at the last is Camp Quest. He brags that his organization brings a 4.5 year old to tears with the fear of hell and eternal separation from mommy and daddy, then denigrates a camp where children are taught science and the value of critical thinking. What kind of sick people take a "testimony" that a book containing lies and obvious scare tactics can "convert" a 4.5-year-old child and promote it on their fundraising letter? What kind of sick people are these?
PS: Can you believe that atheists are deliberately targeting young people with a message of hopelessness … with eternal consequences for the “good” of our children?
Your average, every day fundies.
And these same stupid fuckers will turn around and watch Faux News when it shows the children in Jordan and Syria in school being taught to hate Israel and call it "brainwashing" without batting an eye. Irony so thick it isn't even funny. It would be sad if it was just an isolated incident, rather than a culture of ignorance and fear. But because it is, it's more than sad -- it's physically sickening, and inspires in me a righteous indignation.
Little Johnny, if you don't kiss God's ass enough, you'll go to an awful place where mommy and daddy won't be, and be tortured forever. You better tell God you're sorry, over and over and over, until God decides that's good enough and doesn't throw your worthless ass into the Pit. Doesn't God love you? Don't you love GAWD?
These are our "cultural competitors": this is what freethinkers are up against in the public square, to move our country in one direction or another, via politicians and public relations campaigns. They have massive organizations, fundraising drives, and the fear of hell to motivate them forward. This is the sort of thing they propagate -- fear and ignorance in little children. We need a kick in the pants sometimes to remind us that we are fighting a good fight against these sorts of people. We need to remember how immoral, how intellectually bankrupt, these kinds of people are. It will keep us motivated.
My "purpose" and "meaning" don't involve brainwashing my children to obey a magical invisible Sky Daddy out of fear. They involve teaching my children the value of goodness for goodness' sake, and how to think rationally and critically, and how to live in reality and make a change here, now.
Keep this "testimony" in mind the next time they shamelessly call themselves "pro-family" and "pro-values". The next time you see their slick suits and smiles, think of the tears in her eyes. Don't forget that.
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