This really really bothers me:
Christian Terrorists?
It is common today for schools to conduct “hostage drills” in order to prepare kids in the event of a terrorist attack. But you will never guess what group one high school portrayed as terrorists in a recent hostage drill: Conservative Christians.
A drill at Burlington Township High School in New Jersey involved police depicting mock gunmen described as “members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the ‘New Crusaders’ who don’t believe in the separation of church and state.” The mock gunmen were said to have been “seeking justice because the daughter of one [member] had been expelled for praying before class.” Give me a break!
We’ve grown accustomed to the public schools indoctrinating our children with politically correct views on moral issues. And now that every last vestige of faith has been abolished from the public schools, they’ve brought God back — but only to scare our children with the idea that conservative Christians are terrorists.
HT: Randy
Now THAT is a new one… sheesh… some people…
Great let’s add segregation and descrimination to a country that really doesn’t need that at the moment…
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I agree that was a really daft idea for a drill, but… Have you come across the Left Behind series before?
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I’ve actually read the entire series…twice.
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Then you know a lot more about it than I do. I’m given to understand that large chunks of the plot rely heavily on huge numbers of nonbelievers perishing messily, and that the associated computer game requires you to convert or kill the population of a major city.
If that perception is accurate, the drill we’re complaining about would appear to cover almost exactly the same ground as Left Behind does, as viewed from the other side of the fence. If my understanding is wrong, please correct me.
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The computer game enfuriates me. Just so you know.
In the series, yes a lot of nonbelievers die, as described in the book of Revelation. However, they do not die at the hands of humans. They die from natural disasters (earthquakes, famine, locust swarms, etc.). That’s still quite different than “Christian terrorism.”
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Oh, and mass quantities of believers die at the hands of the nonbelievers, as well.
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OK, thanks for the info. Kinda sucks that us lot are apparently supposed to go to war with you lot. Here’s hoping that the Apocalypse is a loooong way off.
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Two things to keep in mind:
(1) There is more likelihood of a Christian (or non-Christian) militant group being attacked by the U.S. government (Waco, Ruby Ridge) than a Christian militant group attacking anyone.
(2) Amanda is correct about who kills whom. However, note that the Left Behind series is the result of two authors’ fictional account of what the end times will be. They wrote it to impress upon non-believers the necessity of accepting Jesus as Christ. Not all Christian apologists interpret John’s writings in that way. The last book of the Bible can be discussed and debated without ignoring basic Christian tenets.
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Lifewish, you and Amanda wouldn’t necessarily go to war with one another.
In Revelation study, there are those who are “pre-tribulation”, “mid-tribulation”, and “post-tribulation”. Please don’t take insult if you know this already. Pre-trib is the belief that Believers, during the Rapture, will be taken before the horrible end times. Mid- and Post- are self-explanatory then. If pre-trib is correct, Amanda and I won’t be here during that awful time. But even if post-trib is correct, it doesn’t mean that you and Amanda would war with one another.
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