![]() Instead of medically accurate information and thoughtful conversation about intimacy and childbearing, teens get promise rings and slut shame. Thanks to their influence, straight-faced educators tell teens that a girl who has had sex is a licked lollipop. government just spent a decade and a billion dollars on failed abstinence-only education programs concocted by Bible believers who live in some delusional world where prohibition works and virginity is next to godliness. ![]() Denying young people accurate information about their bodies is evil.The U.S. What many fail to acknowledge is that their insistence on elevating religion above universal ethical principles, human rights, and secular laws regularly costs children their lives, not just children with Muslim parents governed by Muslim theocracies, but also children with Christian parents in towns across America.Ģ. When a Muslim father in Tunisia recently burned his 13 year old daughter to death for walking home with a male classmate, Christians were rightfully appalled. Laws that give rights to children go head to head with biblical texts which say in no uncertain terms that children are the property of their fathers, to be punished or even killed in accordance with the father’s religious beliefs and other priorities. Why? Because the Bible instructs parents to hit their children, among other things. stands alone with Somalia in failing to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Opposing protections and rights for children is evil.Thanks to the influence of biblical Christianity, the U.S. A huge part of the antagonism that even moderate Christians face from outsiders is due to the fact that too many devout believers claim a righteous mandate to say and do things that are truly horrible.ġ. Far fewer people would be entertaining themselves with fantasies about lions if more Christians took this little nugget seriously. This advice is not only profoundly moral it is profoundly self-protective. Modern day followers pick and choose, but one piece that often gets ignored is this: Be harmless as doves. In the book of Matthew, Jesus gives his disciples a lot of contradictory advice. And don’t let your co-religionists get away with being evil either. ![]() But for Christians who are truly concerned about hostility toward their faith, I have a bit of advice: Don’t be evil. Modern American Christians are not persecuted or under attack. ![]() The Christian persecution complex is absurd. In 2012 a youth pastor in Pennsylvania made international news by staging the kidnapping of his young charges to help prepare them for the horrors to come. Recently one former Baptist told how his high school youth group had been divided into two groups, assigned to play the roles of persecutors and martyrs. Stuff Fundies Likeis a blog by and for people coming out of the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist tradition. Titles include, “ Expect to be Persecuted” “ Persecution Equals Reward” and “ Adventure Game-Persecution of Christians and Paul of Tarsus.” Web resources abound for church youth leaders who want to make sure their young charges are ready when the lions come for them. But that hasn’t stopped Bible believers from preparing their children for martyrdom. Congress and, as we all were reminded recently, the Supreme Court. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.Ĭhristians may be a super majority in the U.S.
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