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Originally Posted by ElsaMars
I don't think there is anything funny about forced indoctrination but I'm glad you got a laugh out of it at the end. I have a NO SOLICITOR sign on my front window but that doesn't stop them. Have my kids in public schools and that doesn't stop them from coming home with bibles, given to them by our friendly neighborhood enforced indoctrinationists. My son even had an assembly at a public school recently that was sponsored by the local church so afterwards, they invited everyone to come to their church after class. Insidious and not funny, ....I got a pamphlet recently and ripped it up immediately before some poor unsuspecting victim reads it.
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Dear ElsaMars, I am TOTALLY IN AGREEMENT with you about forced indoctrination and proselyting. (And oh, by the way -- it was not the proselytizing woman who I meant to say was funny -- it was my solution, based on Artchic's idea -- to ridicule the situation by having a mock-funeral for the woman's religious tract.) Do you live in USA? Is what you describe happening here, STILL????? I grew up in the 1940s and 50s in the South (East Texas, which is part of the South), and was rampant there. Sounds like what your kids are having going on. Before Junior Hi (7th grade), we kids took turns getting up in front of the class at the beginning of the school day, and had to say a prayer. In Jr Hi and high school, there were prayers on the speakers in each room, coming in from the office. On girl had a gorgeous voice, and she would often sing a Christian prayer over the speakers. Which was really weird because there were a lot of Jews in our school, and in the city where I lived. I guess the parents were terrified to speak out against it, just as my parents were "closet liberals" and did not dare share their political views in public. My parents would have lost their jobs, had they done so. In high school, there was "religious emphasis week" where one of the school choirs sang religious songs -- Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish, and the other choir did the same another day that week. The other three days, there were lectures by a minister/priest/rabbi. I knew from the before I was even in first grade that there was separation of church and state, and what was going on was illegal. Nowadays, where I live ( I fled Texas) some of the schools have pull-out groups where kids who have parental permission go to what I think is called the Good News Club, and get indoctrinated into extreme evangelical teachings. I taught in a school that had that, in the early 1960s. I hated it! Most of the kids in my class left school every Wednesday for the early part of the afternoon, and didn't get back but a few minutes the end of the day. Where I live now, there are a few people who are trying to stop this practice, and the local newspaper has written about it a couple of times. Gosh, ElsaMars, it is a bad situation for you and your children. But I imagine it's a good opportunity for you to help the kids see what's true and what's "advertising" or brainwashing.