A Louisiana school gave kids a biblical advice book comparing sex to slavery

[Nevilledog]

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-louisiana-school-gave-kids-a-biblical

Elementary school students in Louisiana were given books equating premarital sex to slavery and urging them to convert to Christianity, all because a local church was given permission to come on school property and target children.

All of this happened in early April at Lessie Moore Elementary, part of the Rapides Parish School District, in Pineville. Members of Journey Church in the same city were apparently given the green light to distribute literature on school property, which they did shortly after students were finished with breakfast one day—which is to say, during school hours.

Making matters worse, the book they distributed was “The Life Book.”

You may be more familiar with the organization behind this book, Gideons International, the same ministry that puts bibles in hotel rooms. Perhaps aware that no one’s reading those bibles (or the miniature versions of them), Gideons began publishing The Life Book in 2009 specifically to attract teenagers. Rather than bore kids with Bible verses, the book offers hip, cool summaries of Bible stories—or at least what a bunch of adults think kids would find hip and cool—along with advice on dealing with teenage issues. It includes “annotations” from different fictional kids so you can see their “reactions” to what’s printed.

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[Solly Mack]

1. Damn

[niyad]

2. I thought the little fundies were freaked about kids even being

exposed to the word "sex", let alone reading about it?

[Permanut]

3. Let's count the ways this is screwed up.

On second thought, let's not.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Grooming, Conservative style. Next will be the introduction of volunteer Christian youth counselors.

[Takket]

5. we literally have thousands upon thousands of buildings in this country where religion can freely be preached

they are called churches. A school is not a church. This is unconscionable.

[NickB79]

6. With Roe gone, it kinda is now, for women

And that's the plan. Knock women down to 2nd class citizens ala The Handmaid's Tale. Sex leads to pregnancy, which leads to a lifetime of being dependent on your man.

The Republican dream.

[dalton99a]

7. Gideons International: Go get a motel room and read our Bible

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Well, Southern slaveholders spent 1820-1850 swaying the public to accept slavery, so sex should be OK too.

They bribed Baptist and Presbyterian revivalist tour and Northern minsters to move south with promises of property, churches, money and daughters to marry to push the narrative that slavery was fine and the slaveholders were doing God's will by introducing savage people to Christianity. Slaveholders went from pariahs to revered public citizens in one generation. (We see how it took just one generation to convert Republicans to the Pro-Putin Party.) Before the 1830s, slaveholders where shunned in the South. What makes matter worse was that this was not true, slaves were not being introduced to Christ, well, that is until there was a slave uprising. The slaveholders and ministers decided to also have separate church services for the slaves to teach them why they should be good slaves while the ministers would take what little money they had. Those descendants would then embrace the very churches that aided in their ancestors suppression throughout the years.