RE: A club exists at my school for the purpose of evangelizing students
May 6, 2013 at 5:06 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2013 at 5:16 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(May 5, 2013 at 6:56 pm)Drich Wrote:(May 3, 2013 at 10:48 pm)Marnie Wrote: These clubs exist in my area in high schools and middle schools. They are run by an outside missionary group located in the northern area of my state. The only purpose of this club is teaching evangelization to Christians and converting non-Christian students to Christianity. Kids are apparently invited to these clubs and presented the gospel and then made to confess Jesus as their savior. They sign a card saying they confess Jesus as their savior or they have more questions to ask before confessing. Group leaders are supposed to report to headquarters how many students have been converted to Christianity.
Good for them!
You know, although I wouldn't approve of an atheist group using these kinds of tactics in a grade school, the day is coming soon when minority religous groups like Muslims will. Using the same approach, they'll be able to get parents to sign their kids up without ever having to use the words 'Mohammed' or 'Qu'ran' or 'Allah'. They can just say it's an event for children to learn about God and good values after school. I don't approve of Muslims using those tactics either, but I can appreciate how quickly certain people will come to see why it might not be the best thing for religious groups to have free access to our first-graders.
(May 6, 2013 at 2:30 pm)Godschild Wrote: What I was referring to was the passing out of material that directly attacked the Christian Club, telling people they are ignorant IMO is an attack, especially if it's children.
You don't rescue people from ignorance by telling them they are ignorant. You rescue people from ignorance by giving them knowledge.
As a side note, Satanism IS a religion and the law that allows Good News Clubs to operate in grade schools allows the Temple of Satan or the Church of Set to do the same, and there's no legal recourse a school has in that situation but to shut down all of its extracurricular programs...and I think the Church of Set would still have a court case if it was done specifically to exclude them from inviting children from a meeting with baloons and cookies where they can learn lessons from the Bible (the Satanic Bible, of course).
