FSTDT is still making me smile a little...

[desertvixen]

 Not as much as previously, due to what's going on in my life.  But it can still be worth a snicker or two.

OHNOES CRITICAL THINKING

What you want to avoid are:

* Materials that encourage the student to challenge biblical authorities. Typically, critical thinking materials urge children to ignore the teaching of parents and church authorities. They call this "thinking for yourself." But this is not real thinking, simply knee-jerk rebellion.

* Materials that encourage general confusion and skepticism. Eighth grade is not the time or place to ponder the nature of reality.

* Materials that dwell at length on a particular view of the future -- typically, one in which Christianity is irrelevant and a one-world government will solve all human problems.

* Materials that introduce "closed" dilemmas. The most famous is probably the story of the hapless husband who doesn't have money for needed medicine for his dying wife. Is it OK for him to rob the pharmacy to get her medicine? When Christian students try to point out in their public school classrooms that the husband can always pray, and that God can either heal the wife directly or bring in unexpected money, the teacher tells them that this solution is impermissible. Only choices that leave God out of the picture are OK. But in real life God is always in the picture, so we never have to face this kind of phony dilemma.

I'll give them one point - eighth grade is not the time or place to ponder the nature of reality.  Especially if it's during algebra class.

Hopefully, people start thinking before eighth grade.

ANTI-CATHOLIC WANK

Catholicism is not Christianity. Catholicism is a cult that teaches a false gospel of works ("sacraments") that leads to eternal hell (Galatians 1:6-9).

Catholicism cannot save. Only Jesus saves.

The only way to go to heaven and not to eternal hell is by believing in this life that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Believe this and you are saved!

Please pray now: "Jesus, please forgive me of my sins. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins and You rose again. Thank You for eternal life!" You will be in heaven with Him forever when you die :)

I know, oldie but goodie.  It's like a Chick tract, with no pictures.

DV

Comments

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I have been soooo tempted to find a full Penguin-style nun's habit (think the Blues Brothers) to break out when the Witnesses come a-bothering.

Either that, or sic the California Province of the Society of Jesus on them ;).