Parenting: You're Doing it Wrong

[remuslives23]

To the parents of these children and every other adult in this church,

May all your shoes disappear, leaving you forever cursed to walk the earth barefoot. And for every step you take thereafter, may you step on a lego.

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Comments

[cassie_black12]

You know, I've seen this video linked all over the place the last couple of days, and I still can't bring myself to actually watch it.

Just hearing about it in the abstract makes me so angry I can't speak - and the fact that even after the widespread negative reaction to it, members of the church are still justifying their actions...GAH!!! It's like we take one step forward and then some morons like this set us back ten. It makes me so angry and so impotent, because you'll never be able to rationalise with people like this.

[remuslives23]

you'll never be able to rationalise with people like this.

I think that's the scariest part. They've gotten so caught up in hating what they don't understand that they've forgotten the fundamentals of everything they're supposed to hold dear and actually believe they're right in what they're doing. Christianity is supposed to be about love but it's been turned into something feared and ugly by these intolerant pricks who don't actually understand the book from which they're preaching.

[myprettycabinet]

I'm the same, I don't actually know what it's about, but I can make an educated guess. It's like that Fredrick Douglass quote going around -
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

[annjej76]

I totally agree and being a Christian myself these idiots are just pure bigots. I have many gay/lesbian/bi friends. I personally believe in loving people for who they are. Also judge lest ye be judged. The video is disgusting and vile and to have that come out of a child is just WRONG on so many fuckin' levels!!!!

(((HUGS)))

[remuslives23]

It's chilling to hear a child parroting such hate, knowing that he has no clue of the impact of his words.

*hugs back*

[wooly_bear]

I can't watch it. I don't want to fill my head with that ugliness. I used to think that education was the key to all things but the older I get and people like this still don't understand a single thing......I don't know. I've been very disheartened lately. :(

[remuslives23]

I couldn't watch more than 30 seconds of it. I just wanted to cry. This kid is going to grow up to be that same kind of hateful as his parents and keep this ridiculous attitude alive for another generation. It is disheartening to think that we're still sharing space with people like this.

[aviv_b]

I haven't been able to watch it either. To do this in a church is such an affront to decency, and obviously since the video was posted, everyone there thinks its totally ok.

[remuslives23]

I watched just past the first time the kid said those horrible words and... oh, god, they all cheered! Like they were watching the child achieve something, like they weren't watching this child spout ugly, bigoted crap about fellow human beings. It's just... every reason I don't attend church anymore wrapped up in one Youtube video. It's horrifying.

[ramie_k]

I couldn't watch it all the way through. To hear that hatred come out of a little kid's mouth and know he has no idea how horrible and ignorant what he's just said is...it's just devastating.

[remuslives23]

Neither could I. After they all started cheering... I just wanted to curl up in bed and cry. This child is going to take this ugly hatred with him through his life and pass it on to his children. It's just soul destroying.