Tapping Clergy Again

[ebonypearl]

It looks like the government is tapping the clergy again to encourage the pastors to guide their congregations into passivity and compliance with illegal governmental operations, and to be a conduit of information from the congregations to the government.

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[laughterdance]

Hmmm. Interesting. Psycho warfare against your own. You're right, tho, some of it did seem good.

They really said that violence against women was appropriate, to be expected, and should be accepted? That's so backwards it's scary. All that is actually in the document is the Bible story.

Whoever posted that document left the county name on one of the pages, in case you know them and would like to point it out.

[ebonypearl]

Yeah, the pamphlet and other print documents were relatively (if highly Christo-centric) reasonable, it's the seminar accompanying it to teach how to use the material that was disturbing - the phrases we were to emphasize, the bible passages and prayer quotes we were to use, the redefinition of words (like "community center" - that one will anger me for a very long time), the preaching of submissiveness to governmental authority, and so on.

[dulcinbradbury]

hey really said that violence against women was appropriate, to be expected, and should be accepted? That's so backwards it's scary. All that is actually in the document is the Bible story.

I know, that was tough judging *solely* from the document. Honestly, I wasn't sure *what* the point of the story was. While violence against women may increase during a crisis (statistically speaking), I can't imagine condoning it. There's a difference between saying "Okay, this is likely to happen, so I should be prepared to help people through the aftermath" and "Well... people get upset & rape is just an outlet that people should get over." Or whatever bullshit justification they were giving.

[ebonypearl]

According to the presenters, the purpose of the story was to show how violence against women could be used to weaken the enemy. Whatever harm women take is acceptable because that harm can be used to get back at the enemy, or to lure them out to be discovered. They never came right out and said it, but I got the feeling that women were to be viewed as expnedable tools, not people.

And really, they weren't much better towards men - men were to either become submissive to governmental authority which would exert their strength on behalf of the weak meek citizens.

[dulcinbradbury]

That is so very sick.