Oops. My post about “children disrespecting other children” has errors. Maybe it’s because my daughter’s public school is participating in this total sham that I got some of the names and words mixed up. So, here’s the corrected version - with all newly replaced words underlined.
Let’s try it, again…
This is a pretty unsettling story. And, surprisingly, it has been going on for a while.
There is an Christian minister, Franklin Graham, that you may have read about in the papers or seen on television. What you probably don’t know about him is that he and his Evangelical Christian organization have essentially infiltrated our schools for the purpose of turning non-Christian children (who he considers “infidels”) against the religions of their families. He is able to get away with it because he has been successful at disguising his work as a “charitable giving project,” but his own words give him away:
We will be a witness for God when we give away your shoe boxes… We are to be a witness. We are to tell the truth… Let’s use a shoe box…
The shoe boxes that he’s talking about are those that have been filled with toys and candy and good will by Western children who have been told that the boxes will go to “children in need, all over the world.” What Western children don’t know is that, once the boxes are received by Minister Graham’s organization, an attractive four-color copy of the Bible is added to the boxes, before they are distributed to those children in need.
After we give the children their gifts, we ask them to enroll in a 10-lesson study of the Bible. Hundreds of thousands of children have participated in our program.”
An empty shoe box.
Just last month, in an address to his followers, Minister Graham recalled one recent victory:
After receiving their bag gifts, three boys, all under the age of 10, confessed to being involved in witchcraft, repented of their sins, and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. One cult leader, after reading his son’s Bible lessons, renounced his false religion and surrendered his life to the Lord.
So, while he is very hostile to non-Christian religions, he harbors special contempt for the religion of Islam. Here are more of Minister Graham‘s actual words:
I believe that Islam is a very evil and wicked religion.
I don’t believe Islam is a wonderful, peaceful religion. When you read the Koran and you read the verses from the Koran, it teaches killing.
Maybe I’m just being “PC,” but I really don’t understand why, in pluralistic societies such as ours, religious bigotry such as this is allowed to breed under the guise of “charity.” For goodness’ sake, don’t you suppose that the children whose generosity and trusting natures are being exploited would be resentful if they were to find out what is being done in their names? I think so. It seems only right that we give children the unfiltered truth about this program and let them decide whether or not they’d like to participate.
I see what you did there.
Thanks for that :)
It’s my rather clumsy attempt to make a point. :)
He sure looks like his father . . .it actually startled me.
Even with the photo-chop job I did on his neck? Cool.
Brilliant theologian that I am, I was waiting for the other switcheroo shoe to drop.
Is that because we don’t hear about pushy Muslims pulling this kind of crap on kids, and the rest of us (assuming Mom and Dad had something to do with the goodies being donated), but the Muslims do the same crappy things? Or is it because Christians think they own the fucking world and can do anything they want, even in places where such behavior is prohibited by law?
Nance
Though evangelical Muslims don’t do the shopping bag thing, they do proselytize in the prisons. It’s one of Chuck Colson’s Prison Ministry’s scare tactics: Christians have to get to the prisoners before the ‘Islams’ do! :P
Ever since Girl’s school sent word home that they participate in this program, I’ve been looking into it. Very, very few people seem upset by it and those that are concerned are promptly and derisively branded “PC” and dismissed as cheerless misers with no heart for children. Even parents practicing the same “false” faiths as those targetted love and defend the program! There’s no getting through to people on this issue. Mr. Graham has himself a great gig.
I also believe, given their stronger sense of fairness, children would not appreciate learning the truth about what they’ve been doing. It’s only adults who can twist and distort meanings to make stuff like this sound admirable.
Tim Tebow does the Christian prison ministry thing too, sigh. The real human truth is that education, not anybody’s religious story presented as Truth, is what prisoners lack that gets them in, and what they need most to stay out. And to get education either before, during or after prison, they need society’s sincerely charitable help rather than a bunch of power-play preacher competition disguised as humble, selfless human love and giving. The Chronicle of Higher Education has been writing about that this week.
We all could get behind that if feeding needy minds rather than our own morbidly obese egos was the point. Now THAT would be practical, ethical, moral, charitable within the Golden Rule of all faiths and PC all at the same time! It would unite us rather than set us against each other — thus it seems clear Graham’s true purpose isn’t any of that. His scheme is left looking like plain old-fashioned flock-fleecing soul collection, racking up the points for his own claim to good works while breaking most of the rules he supposedly is teaching.
I had no idea that was what happened to the shoe boxes. 8-(
And Christians don’t proselytize in prisons?
Even if that is true, that leaves the rest of the world available to the Cs. Who are not, apparently, actually hindered by the “separation” thing.
Nance