Protesters pass out flyers at Christian event in Winston-Salem [View all]
Source: Winston-Salem Journal
The gap between protesters and participants in a religious program for children could be measured in yards, but the gulf between them was obviously wider than that Saturday morning at the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds.
The protesters carried signs that accused the Child Evangelism Fellowship of using threats and fear to teach children about Christianity.
Flyers passed out on the sidewalk accused the CEF’s Good News Clubs of teaching children that they deserve to die and go to hell.
The people running the Children’s Good News Spectacular on Saturday in the Education Building at the fairgrounds said that’s not how they teach kids about God.
“Their reason for saying this is because it sounds terrible,” said Bob Fowler, one of the event organizers, speaking about the protesters. “They think we are browbeating children.”....
Varlamov said that club lessons teach children violent stories, such as accounts of the “genocide” of the Amalekites or the mauling of disrespectful children by bears in the Old Testament. Protesters say that abundant references on the Internet and videos on YouTube demonstrate that the message of the Good News Clubs is “dark.”
To that, Fowler maintains that the critics are taking materials from teaching manuals out of context.
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