MissScripture Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 A middle school teacher at a local middle school showed [url="http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1b5bd6e3e034d00b4f73&page=1&viewtype=&category=mv"]this[/url] video from GodTube, and got in a lot of trouble. If this isn't Jesus shoved down your throat, I don't know what is. I'd just like to know how a public school teacher justified showing this to a class (a health class, to be precise). Apparently, this teacher is now on unpaid leave and has to write letters of apology to all the students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starets Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 high-pressure guilt tactics like that are one of the reasons why I am no longer fundamentalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathoholic_anonymous Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 None of that has anything to do with Jesus. If you place that video alongside Jesus' own teaching - the Sermon on the Mount, His parables, the way He behaved with His friends - it's impossible to see any similarities between them at all. I don't even recognise the God that the video talks about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpugh Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I didn't really watch it... i just skimmed it... it sounds like a scare tactic... none of the depictions from the friend's letter sounded like the hell we know about... hell is a choice... not a "oh an angel locked me up in here... and they're coming to throw me in the lake of fire! ohh help me! I want to be in heaven!!" and so on... it's distorted... what is wrong w/ these people!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaime Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 The letter was postmarked from Cleveland I can understand the confusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathoholic_anonymous Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 [quote name='hot stuff' post='1432852' date='Dec 11 2007, 07:32 PM']The letter was postmarked from Cleveland I can understand the confusion[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S][N Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 ...Ughh..."This is not meant as a scare tactic."...Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight... These people should be locked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prose Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Wow. I would be more than a little angry if someone showed some garbage like that to my kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissScripture Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Yeah. I don't understand how anyone in their right mind would find it okay to show that to a room full of jr. high students. Not to mention at a public school! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XIX Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Geesh, I don't even see any "filpping tables in the Temple" Jesus in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starets Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 This has more to do with american fundamentalism and its approach to evangelization and catechising than it does of the Gospel message. Salvation is reduced to (Hell)fire insurance, the "unsaved" are reduced to tallies in spreadsheets, catechism is reduced to high pressure sales tactics, and Christianity itself becomes little more than a glorified MLM scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XIX Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 [quote name='hot stuff' post='1432852' date='Dec 11 2007, 02:32 PM']The letter was postmarked from Cleveland I can understand the confusion[/quote] That was awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpugh Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Man, that's one of the only times I didn't find hot stuff funny when he was tryin. I'm almost dissapointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaime Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 [quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1433052' date='Dec 11 2007, 10:05 PM']Man, that's one of the only times I didn't find hot stuff funny when he was tryin. I'm almost dissapointed.[/quote] I'm sorry I let you down dude If it helps at all, knightofChrist gave me boobs in the "I've been elfed" thread. Maybe he can fill in until my funny comes back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st-annes Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 ...So, now there's a post office in hell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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