News – Authorities Find a Bed in the Gleaming White Temple at the Raided Polygamist Compound in Texas.
Another story on how some people use religion to dominate others as they see fit and proper.
I think that as long we fail to educate prople on ALL religions, in school with proper and unbiased textbooks, this will be but one instance of abuse come to light. Education gives strength.
I wish I could say that I'm shocked, but, not even close. Its sad to watch religion being perverted and used over and over again to dominate weak individuals.
your public school solution would be great, if these kids attended public schools. part of the problem is religious based schools and home schooling, which limit the exposure to other ideas about morality.
I agree with your point of view. You're absolutely right, that in many instances the kids wouldn't receive the exposure.
I do think there are many instances where children/adults, armed with knowledge given them in school would avoid falling into the trap of promises these demagogues put forth to those not allready in a particular sect/religious group.
It is a fine balance act, to give proper education and respect an individuals religious belief. I think we need to find that balance though, in order to restrengthen our society, and to some degree bring back the current lack of morals, direction and religious guidance so apparently void in many today.
No offense, but by the looks of the world's condition today, religious guideance is the last thing they need... We've got Pat Robertson preaching that Chavez needs to be "taken out," GW, who claims to read the Bible daily, then goes out and orders more killing, trying to lead us to the rapture before he gets voted out of office, lunatic churches picketing funerals with "God hates fags" placards, and suicide bombers blowing up anyone around them indiscriminately, with no regard as to who any of them are, and Catholic priests molesting little kids and mentally retarded adults as fast as they can be served up. No, I don't really think that "religious guidance" is exactly what we need. Matter of fact, it sounds more like the last thing we need.
None taken.
Contrary to many peoples opinion, I don't consider P. Robertson and his bethrem to be religious leaders. They are sect leaders, using religion to enrich themselves.
As to GW, well ........
If you look at the landscape of American religion, there are quite a few very good men of God out there, preaching tolerance, morals and His word the way it was intended. Just about all of them are miles away from the limelight, and they do not seek it. Talk to their parishioners, and the story you hear is all about using your faith in a positive maner. These are the religious leaders I'm talking about.
Unfortunately, the limelight allways seems to fall on the few rotten apples, thus giving the impression that the whole barrel is bad. I wish we the people had the smarts to throw away the rotten ones, but in to many instances they aren't recognised as such untill something bad happens.
I know, my biggest fault is being an idealist, with all those traps.
I think we need to find that balance though, in order to restrengthen our society, and to some degree bring back the current lack of morals, direction and religious guidance so apparently void in many today.>>>>>
That balance doesn't require religion to find. It requires ethics be taught by parents & society. Ethics should be taught in every school, and when children show a lack of them, their parents should be suspect.
You can't blame all religion on this. Once again we have someone or in the case a group of leaders usurping a religion. No where in the Christian Bible does it endorse the raping of children or forced "marriages." Like the Catholic priests, it wasn't that many but it only takes a few to destroy 2000 years of credibility.
I think in today's atmosphere, I wouldn't want to see the public schools teaching religion. In Milwaukee, with the MPS sex ed programs, we're seeing around 50% of the female student population getting pregnant. I think this should stay something the family works on together.
Got a link to those stats? Personally I don't believe them.
"Got a link to those stats? Personally I don't believe them."
I just moved from Milwaukee, and I find it highly believable. Milwaukee Public Schools are a cesspool. Unemployment among blacks in Milwaukee also is about 50 percent.
"On average, 60% of Milwaukee Public Schools high schoolers and 30% of middle schoolers are sexually active, said Judy Gerrity, project coordinator for the MPS teen pregnancy prevention education program."
That's from the April 3 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. If 60 percent admit to being active, how many girls do you think will go 4 years without getting pregnant? How many do you think will wind up with STDs?
BB64, you might want to do some searching and see if there is anything that does refer to the act of raping in the Bible.
I came across Zechariah 14:2. There were others but they were referring more to taking the women as wives. I cannot say if rape was allowed there.
With the rest of your comment, I fully agree. It seems like anything that the government or school systems try to do to address these issues only seems to increase the problem, like they are actually introducing the subject to kids and making them more curious.
"I think that as long we fail to educate prople on ALL religions, in school with proper and unbiased textbooks, this will be but one instance of abuse come to light. Education gives strength."
Public schools are not the place for studying religion.
And apparently some places of worship are not either.
And yes, public schools are the place to educate kids about different religions but not the place to promote or favor one religion over another. But the most important thing schools could teach (as was previously said by jordan11) is ethics. Seems our country is lacking much in that respect.
This is definately a wakeup call!!! If it's a church in Texas, not mainstream, the church grounds is a 'compound.'
The fact bad things happened in the 'compound' caused over 400 children to lose their home, culture and everything they believed in - surely there were some adults in there behaving in an adult manner - couldn't they stay with them?.
Now the children are free to be exploited by our culture - thongs, anal/oral 'not sex', drugs, violent video games and, of course rap - everything we have to offer our children today. I'm overjoyed at the chances they have now!!!
Maybe they can be coaxed into going down the street to the Catholic 'compounds' where priests had their way with little boys for years and years - wait - that's a religion!!! We can't send in the storm troopers and arrest all the moms and dads who sent their children to that den of eniquity and take the children away from them!!!
Do we have a double standard somewhere?
God help the children....we won't....
You seem to think that their "culture," those things they had been instructed to believe, was worth continuing. I disagree. I think that the enslavement of human beings is evil, and the use of "religion" as a cloak behind which those who dominate them can hide is reprehensible.
"God help the children," you say. "We won't"
I think that is exactly what is wrong with our society. There are too many, like you, who won't help others. You are so blinded by hatred that you are useless to either yourself or these who need education and support.
Get out of our way, and let us try. We may not always be successful, but what we do is better than abandoning our fellow humans.
Its no wonder that people get the wrong impression of religion. With all these false prophets causing all this trouble. They are not true Christians. just an mirror copy of the original and not a very good copy at that. But they will pay one day for their deceit and leading people astray. It saddens me that the innocent and uneducated in christian values will be the ones to pay. Like a wolf in sheeps clothing waiting until they can pounce on and devour the unprotected.
complete Perversion again under the guise of religion. No wonder there are athiests in the world. Round up all of these poligamists and put them in confined worker programs where every dime they make goes to support their victims ( wifes and children) Sell off all of theri assests. House them in jail for the rest of their lifes. Provide Psychiatric help for the wifes and children to main stream them back into society. Under no circumstaces let them continue to get awya withthis. Impeachall of the Senators and Congressional reps in these poligamist states that have been covering for these sadistic perverts. Get rid or Orin Hatch, and Romney too. The country needs to send a message to this Cult religion.
In my native Sweden, while searching for white & black siberian huskies, I ran in to a kinky AMERICAN web site 'Blacks & Whites'.
I saw some of the most disgusting pictures & videos of black people (some of them appeared to have shed their tail and jumped off a tree somewhere, if you know what I mean) having sex with blonde girls.
Myself and my community were successful in making our local cable TV service block this most disgusting web site.
We were wondering if these blondes were captured somewhere and forced to do the thing.
Du amerikaner är galen könsbestämmer knarkare. Dina ska blondiner går med något, som ser likt ett male organ, även en lappa av trä. Uppehälle din äckliga böjelse till ditt egna land.
Nice try.
That doesn't make any sense in Swedish.
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UNBEIEVABLE!! --- but no surprise
I wouldn't have been surprised if it were a flattened cardboard box and a dirty blanket on the floor.
Sort of brings new meaning to the phrase "I'm coming to Jesus".
(Well, someone had to say it.)