Children need three square meals of Bible stories every day. You don’t need to sit down and read a book or arrange some formal religious event. Recount the truths of God in conversation all day long. Deliberately cause them to know the Bible from beginning to end, so that when an important issue comes up, you can draw upon those events to illustrate any point you need to make. They should be caused to view the world through God’s Bible glasses. This is not indoctrination.
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This is what my parents tried to do to my siblings and I. I'm Wiccan. My sister is atheist. My brother is agnostic.
So yes, some do escape the brainwashing. And yes, it is brainwashing.
I would totally tell my children Bible stories.
The Bible has some of the best sex scenes of any book, except maybe the Kamasutra, but I don't think there's as much story in that one.
Well, I think so, Michael, but wouldn't three round meals a day be easier to swallow?
"This is not indoctrination."
when an important issue comes up, you can draw upon those events to illustrate any point you need to make
I like the one about the kids who made fun of the bald headed guy, so some bears came out of the woods and ate them. Haaar Harr harr. That'll put some monsters under the kids' beds.
To this bastard, it isn't indoctrination because he thinks it is the absolute truth. If Jesus ever existed I doubt that even he'd want people to carry on that way.
I feel sorry for the children this fucker comes in contact with.
"Children need three square meals of Bible stories every day."
I tried that once. It didn't work out. Paper just tastes terrible, and let's not even get started on those hard covers.
Children need three square meals of Bible stories every day.
The KJV, now full of all the vitamins and minerals a growing child needs :)
Deliberately cause them to know the Bible from beginning to end, so that when an important issue comes up, you can draw upon those events to illustrate any point you need to make.
Don't you also have to have to teach your children the necessary mental gymnastics to condemn anything by quoting bible verses out of context?
"They should be caused to view the world through God’s Bible glasses. This is not indoctrination."
Repeat after me, "This is not indoctrination."
"thisisnotindoctrination"
I can't hear you!
"This is not indoctrination."
Louder!
"This is not indoctrination!"
Again!
"This is not indoctrination!"
Once more with feeling?
"This is not indoctrination!"
Good. Just you remember that!
Don't forget to tell them about the daughters of Lot being offered for fucking to the men of Sodom, even though they were virgins at the time. You'll have to explain what a virgin is while your at it - someone who has never fucked/been fucked.
Then remember the man of Gibeah who gave his slavegirl to the men of that town and they fucked her to death.
Oh, and back to Lot's daughters who got him drunk and fucked him and had children by this incest.
And how eating shellfish is as great an abomination as lying with another man... etc etc.
What a way to fuck up a childs mind. I think this counts as child abuse and hypocrisy - hypocrisy because of the fact that there is more horror and sex in the bible than in any cinema or on the TV.
From advice letters on their site: "If throwing a fit caused more painnot lessthe child would wisely stop throwing fits. If running away from sweet, tender Mama with a little-bitty switch meant running into a lion, she would welcome the switch as her savior."
Sweet, tender Mama with a "little-bitty SWITCH"??? WTF??
I truly hope all people, but especially those with special needs children, do not listen to these idiots.
That man and his "ministries" need to be blown off the planet. They're disgusting examples of the human condition.
What's worse, they actually have people convinced they're right. People who believe their insane trash and implement it with their own children.
This goes on daily, and my former neighbor, who left her 10 & 8 year olds home alone so she could go to work, got her kids taken away for neglect. The kids had neighbors right next door - me and my roommate. We agreed to keep an eye on them. The house was clean. Food was cooked and fed before the mother left. It was the middle of summer when the kids were running around playing anyway. The sitter canceled at the last minute and the mother needed to support her children; so she ended up battling the system for months to get her children back, and only then with "supervision". While these people go on, day in and day out, abusing children, tormenting children, brainwashing children, and teaching others to do the same.
It makes me beyond sick.
To Damen (RE: "You're either a liar or the dumbest mother fucker on the face of the earth." ):
I had trouble deciding between the two, so I'm going to have to say both apply here.
This is not indoctrination.
also from their site, in a warning about the dangers of being tolerant:
"Jocelyn, our first born, is now a little over two and a half, and Lori and I think she’s borderline genius. We’re probably the only ones who do, but she’s certainly learning quicker than we are."
I doubt anyone would argue that point.
Including Lot drunkenly shagging his own daughters, David doing in his mistress' husband, Samson murdering thirty strangers because he lost a party game and the commandments to kill disobedient kids? Or do you save those till they're older?
Nope! Agreeing with everyone who said "brainwashing". This is more insidious than obvious indoctrination.
No, they save the hardcore stuff for when they're older.
The Pearls (Michael and his wife) frighten me. No so much because of what they say, but because they sound so sure of themselves and are looked upto as leaders who give excellent advice.
May FSM have mercy on their souls for all the children they've messed up with their "wisdom"
Ok, here's my one square meal.
Here children, is an extract from a fundie website. The last sentence is a lie.
Discuss.
"Deliberately cause them to know the Bible from beginning to end," You sure you want to do that, Michael Pearl?
I thought you wanted to ENCOURAGE them to be Christians, not discourage them.
First off, force-feeding them tidbits of bible all day isn't square meal, it's grazing.
Also, making someone think a certain way through constant teaching of that way and only that way is indeed indoctrination. I couldn't even not use the word indoctrination when trying to write this up, that's how much it is.
No that's the definition of indoctrination.
And really? Are you sure? All of it? Even the incest? And the genocide of other peoples by the Israelites? And the parts where Jesus says he didn't come to Earth to bring peace and is going to tear families apart?
Children need three square meals of Just So stories every day. You don’t need to sit down and read a book or arrange some formal literary event. Recount the truths of Kipling in conversation all day long. Deliberately cause them to know the Just So stories from beginning to end, so that when an important issue comes up, you can draw upon those events to illustrate any point you need to make. They should be caused to view the world through Kipling’s Just So glasses. This is not indoctrination.
Fixed.
And if they wanna read anything else in the world, beat the shit out of 'em with a nice, narrow PVC pipe, right, Michael?
Now, if you're teaching them to read it right , then it's not, and you're absolutely correct. See, the Bible, when read properly, is the best tool for creating atheists that ever existed.
Somehow, I doubt that's what you mean, thought.
If you have God in conversations all day long, how is that three square meals? It looks like one very long (and boring) meal to me.
No, you're wrong; that is the very epitome of indoctrination.
Do YOU know the Bible from beginning to end, Mikey? What do you say about the Song of Songs?
Knowing this prick, I'll bet he doesn't feed his kids anything but Bible. Literally. Food? How dare you ask for vile earthly food when you could be feasting on the Word of God? Vile heathen! Kill the child, before he starts to question us!
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