RE: Kountze cheerleaders happily breaking down the barrier between church and state.
September 27, 2012 at 2:56 pm
(September 27, 2012 at 1:29 am)apophenia Wrote:
Well, if the kids initiate it, it's legal. But that's not really what's happening.
Wikipedia Wrote:The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a non-profit interdenominational Christian organization founded in 1954 and that has been based in Kansas City, Missouri since 1956. It falls within the tradition of Muscular Christianity. Although established by evangelical Protestants, the concept has spread to where chapters have been opened in several Catholic schools. Members are encouraged, but not required, to be athletes.
A religious organization, FCA uses the influence of coaches and athletes as a means of Christian evangelism. The group operates chapters based in schools, and operates camps, workshops and conferences. FCA currently has about 600 paid employees.
Our schools in America — particularly grade schools — have become the latest avenue of opportunism for evangelicals (where they refer to the masses of unsaved as "harvest fields," a phrase the I couldn't help linking to the machines in The Matrix growing and harvesting humans for use as human energy generators, only in this case they are harvesting souls).
An interesting analogy there.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
