?????Gospel Literacy Program????? Insiduous indoctrination.
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_Fence Sitter
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Re: “Gospel Literacy Program” Insiduous indoctrination.
It's okay that they are using illiteracy as a means to indoctrinate people in religion. These same people will eventually learn to use a computer and the internet and we know how that will end for religion like Mormonism.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
Re: “Gospel Literacy Program” Insiduous indoctrination.
Stocks wrote:Like any other church program, it starts out by serving members.
And in regions where the need is great, guess what, magically more people who need are becoming members to gain access!
So who would be taking advantage of who?
Bingo. Two birds with one stone. Right?
If the church really cared about solving illiteracy, as in REALLY cared, would it offer that training for free to everyone with no strings, or just to members?
Good question if they are willing to teach non-members. I suppose they get to decide who they will offer it to. One could make an argument that they are less moral if they have the resources to teach many non-members but refuse to do so because they are not members, but is that happening?
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Church manages, via Ensign Peak, a portfolio of monetary investments worth somewhere between $50-100 billion. This is on top of buildings and land. If put to good use, the church could be the single largest humanitarian service charity in the world.
But instead, we serve our own and hoard the cash. When we do serve others, it is in relatively tiny chunks, carefully designed to be seen.
Maybe I am being petty. It’s the Lords money after all. Right? Given as tithes to help prepare the world for the second coming, right?
But instead, we serve our own and hoard the cash. When we do serve others, it is in relatively tiny chunks, carefully designed to be seen.
Maybe I am being petty. It’s the Lords money after all. Right? Given as tithes to help prepare the world for the second coming, right?
… the only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong. -- Edwin Lefevre
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Stocks wrote:
Maybe I am being petty. It’s the Lords money after all. Right? Given as tithes to help prepare the world for the second coming, right?
No, God has no claim on the money. They can spend it as they like.
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Re: “Gospel Literacy Program” Insiduous indoctrination.
“Gospel literacy is about learning to read and write so you can understand … the principles of the gospel so that you can teach your own children or your neighbors,” said Project Manager Melissa Hawkley.
So, if the members in Sierra Leone need to learn to read and write so that they can understand Gospel Principles, on what basis have they been baptised into the Church?
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
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Re: “Gospel Literacy Program” Insiduous indoctrination.
“The Baseball Baptism” program was an insidious way of attracting people into being baptised in the Church. Simply put, missionaries set up games of baseball with members, their non member friends and passers by, saw the baseball games and wanted to join in. Over a short period of time they coerced these visitors into being baptised. The Baseball Games were a baited hook to lure the unsuspecting. It was a mask of the missionaries real intentions.
It’s the same methodology the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang uses.
The Gospel Literacy Program is a rinse and repeat of that methodology. Poor people will see their neighbours becoming more literate (a huge advantage in that community), and will also want to be taught to read and write. The way the program has been deliberately set up means that a person being taught to read and write is conditional on them being indoctrinated. That’s insidious indoctrination.
It’s the same methodology the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang uses.
The Gospel Literacy Program is a rinse and repeat of that methodology. Poor people will see their neighbours becoming more literate (a huge advantage in that community), and will also want to be taught to read and write. The way the program has been deliberately set up means that a person being taught to read and write is conditional on them being indoctrinated. That’s insidious indoctrination.
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“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
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Re: “Gospel Literacy Program” Insiduous indoctrination.
“OK, class, for our next lesson we’re going to practice reading something from one of our greatest prophets, Brigham Young. Remember, our prophets are the mouthpieces of God on Earth, at least until they’re dead and then, well, whatever, but this prophet is so revered that we named our great university after him. That’s him in that portrait on the wall. Let’s read together, shall we?
'You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth...' Let’s stop there a second — that last word is tricky: uncouth. Does anyone know what that means? Amina? Yes, that’s right, it means being uncivilized, rude or vulgar. Let’s read it together again, shall we? Repeat after me…
“OK, for your homework assignment I’d like you to take home this quote that we’ve been working on. There is some more good vocabulary in it that our great prophet used to describe black people like you, like “odious” — we’ll go over it all together next week.”
Reading Comprehension Assignment:
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants;' and they will be, until that curse is removed.”
~m#9
'You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth...' Let’s stop there a second — that last word is tricky: uncouth. Does anyone know what that means? Amina? Yes, that’s right, it means being uncivilized, rude or vulgar. Let’s read it together again, shall we? Repeat after me…
“OK, for your homework assignment I’d like you to take home this quote that we’ve been working on. There is some more good vocabulary in it that our great prophet used to describe black people like you, like “odious” — we’ll go over it all together next week.”
Reading Comprehension Assignment:
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants;' and they will be, until that curse is removed.”
~m#9
Re: “Gospel Literacy Program” Insiduous indoctrination.
When I was on my mission in Japan we would offer free weekly English conversation classes. It was supposed to be a community service, but we were to use it to pick up investigators. I remember we were told to try to get rid of the students that were not interested in the church after they had attended for a few months.
We were eventually told we needed to use the Book of Mormon as our only textbook. Even the missionaries thought that was ridiculous. Can you imagine people learning to speak English from the Book of Mormon? I think most missionaries ignored the rule and just taught modern English instead of Book of Mormon English.
We were eventually told we needed to use the Book of Mormon as our only textbook. Even the missionaries thought that was ridiculous. Can you imagine people learning to speak English from the Book of Mormon? I think most missionaries ignored the rule and just taught modern English instead of Book of Mormon English.