And We Throw Stones At Islam?

Indoctrination. 

That big scary word was bandied about by the right wing when President Obama was going to give his first address to the nation's schools (LIKE SO MANY PRESIDENTS BEFORE HIM) about the importance of working hard, staying in school, doing your best - you know, liberal, socialist, Marxist, Communist ideas.

Glenn Beck made sure to add it to the Word O' The Day verbal toilet paper he unrolled for his mASSES each day.  Filling his audience with the fear of indoctrination camps being set up across the nation.

Rick Santorum loved the word, too.  He used it to describe colleges.  You know, those places where a young person's mind is polluted with liberal things like FACTS and INFORMATION.  (Let's not even get started on old Frothy attending 3 colleges himself.  They failed miserably at filling him with anything but beer and pomposity.)

And the fearmongers of the nation love to point their chewed nailed, stubby fingers across the globe at the MIddle East and drone on about how they - you know, brown people who aren't Christian - indoctrinate their children to hate America, to believe in Islam, to want to kill everything with a pulse.

THEY.

It's always THEY.

The elusive, scary, morally bankrupt and bereft of values THEY.

And none of them realize THEY live a lot closer.  In fact, THEY live right in THEIR mirrors.

Today's example of the Christian Taliban:

You explain to me how THIS is not indoctrination?  This tiny child singing with conviction about homos not getting into heaven. 

This child did not come into this world knowing the word "homo," let alone some bullshit, manmade requirements to obtain a Fastpass for the Golden Gate and St. Peter's Wild Ride.

Your children came to you as blank slates.  Empty vessels. 

Take a good look. What have you written on them?  What hatred have you filled them, INDOCTRINATED them with?  It is abuse just as much as if you shot them up with heroin or stuffed a case of Marlboros in their mouth and lit it with a flamethrower.

If they are hating another group of people, then you have failed.  Utterly, completely, and you are as far from the ideas of Jesus as is humanly possible.

WWJD?

Kick you in your sorry, hating, ignorant ass.

Comments

[Chrissy]

This just breaks my heart. Really, there's nothing else to say.

[Kerry]

I saw this today too, and didn't even have the energy to comment or bitch about it on FB because I couldn't bear to even give these people one more minute of airtime. Disgusting.

[Robin in NM]

"You've got to be taught
before It's too late
to hate all the people
your family hates...."

Sound familar?

[Tom]

I started trying to decide whether it's worse that the kid has been taught to hate at such a young age or that the mass of dumbass church attendees were clapping and cheering him on. My head started to hurt, so I quit trying to decide - and started wishing that God smite the entire sorry lot.

[Nikki]

Wow. Just wow. Now what happens to this kid -- and he could not be more than 5 -- if he grows up to be gay? It could happen cuz it does happen. Even to "good Christians" like these people will most assuredly tell you they are. I guess if one of these kiddies turns out to be gay he will be rode out of his hometown of Dumbf*ckville on a rail. And all those nitwits cheering them on. Nothing like a good dose of hate on a sunny Sunday morning to get yourself right with the Lord.

[Another Lori in TX]

I doubt this child even knows what he is saying - he's just singing the words he's been taught.
What a sad, sorry state of affairs that has adults cheering and clapping for those hateful words. They are the people who give "Christians" a bad reputation.

[Lisa]

This makes me sick to my stomach and so very, very sad....

[Rick]

Linda, I have to comment. Let me preface what I say by saying I do call myself Christian and yes I'm one of them that believes the Bible to be clear in saying homosexuality is sinful. HOWEVER, hatred in any form is also. I have taught children at my church for many years. I know how they can absorb, memorize, and repeat for the approval of their families and people in their church. The danger of mindless indoctrination is always present. The applause and laughter is what these boys will remember as long as they just keep repeating "ain't no homos gonna make it to heaven." Truly heartbreaking and not what my church or any other I've been to or known would condone.

[Donna]

Whatever happened to it being God who would judge us for our sins and we were to treat our neighbors as we wanted to be treated. When I was in church, I assumed that meant all neighbors, not just the ones that were "Good"
Donna