roadkill » 15 Apr 2023, 10:47 am » wrote: ↑ "Parents have the right to decide what they want to do with their children"
Then why are some schools encouraging transgenderism behind the parents back? They even tell the kids not to tell their parents.
Explain that one Ode.
roadkill » 15 Apr 2023, 10:09 am » wrote: ↑ I asked the question, why are drag queens needed to read stories to little kids? I got no response. There's yer answer.
roadkill » 15 Apr 2023, 10:47 am » wrote: ↑ "Parents have the right to decide what they want to do with their children"
Then why are some schools encouraging transgenderism behind the parents back? They even tell the kids not to tell their parents.
Explain that one Ode.
OdeToJoy » 15 Apr 2023, 11:13 am » wrote: ↑ What Aboutism.
If people want to take their children to an activity; that is their business. Just like when parents escorted their children to see Kirk Cameron. Their business.
Oh, so that gives you an "out" from your SUPPORT of GAY SEX, Tranniesm, and all other forms of PERVERSION AND SIN IN GOD'S EYES! And that's NOT to mention your FULL SUPPORT to MURDER BABIES in their mother's womb!! What was it JESUS had to say about the little children??!OdeToJoy » 15 Apr 2023, 10:03 am » wrote: ↑ Actually, I am a devout Christian. Just not an Evangelical Nut Job.
The Strange Decline of US Evangelicalism
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/ ... 137169.htm
In July 2021 the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) published new data, as part of its '2020 Census of American Religion', that is very revealing. The PRRI data reveals what can only be described as an extraordinary decline in the number of white Americans who now identify as 'evangelical Christians.' As the PRRI report concludes: "Since 2006, white evangelical Protestants have experienced the most precipitous drop in affiliation, shrinking from 23% of Americans in 2006 to 14% in 2020."
The data, though, is even more surprising than this. What the PRRI statistics reveal is that, while white evangelicalism seems to be declining, the numbers of what might be called 'mainline Protestants' is increasing. This includes the Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran Church, etc. These churches now represent 16.4% of the US population. In contrast with declining evangelical numbers, this is a movement up from 13% in 2016. As a result, if PRRI is correct in its polling methodology, 'mainline Protestants' now constitute a larger group in US society than white evangelicals. There is evidence which suggests that some members of the latter have shifted to the former.
Not only this, but the PRRI research reveals that these white evangelicals constitute the oldest age-profile of any identifiable group of religious Americans. They have an average age of 56. In short, white US evangelicalism is both shrinking in size and failing to attract younger members. Or, as importantly, it is shedding its younger members who no longer wish to be classified as part of this group. If the current rate of decline continues, we could expect the number of US white evangelicals, as a percentage of the US adult population, to be in single figures by 2030. And they will also be old.
While all this has been going on, there occurred a further political move to the right among Republicans and their (older) evangelical allies. As Diana Butler Bass recently put it: "Evangelicalism became the religious right." It is this polarization of politics – with many evangelicals increasingly seen as the hard-right at prayer – that seems to have caused a gear-change in the process of decline between 2014 and 2021.
A leading US evangelical, in an off-the-record comment to me, described what has happened since November 2020 as "the continued departure by millions of young evangelicals who are disgusted with the toxic politicization of their spiritual community." And it is clear that it is not just the young who are moving out.
No, I haven't dodged it. It is for parents to decide which activities their children go to. A lot of parents decided they didn't like Kirk Cameron. It is up to them.roadkill » 15 Apr 2023, 11:15 am » wrote: ↑ You dodged my question which means yer not honest.
Then why are some schools encouraging transgenderism behind the parents back? They even tell the kids not to tell their parents.
Ode can't answer this question...and we know why.
OdeToJoy » 15 Apr 2023, 6:02 am » wrote: ↑ Parents are always at the Kirk Cameron's book readings. So, nothing happens there. We are all making a mountain out of a mole hill, etc...etc...
Question: Why do the parents need to be there if there is nothing to worry about? Book readings do not require parental permission or their presence. Teachers have been doing it for centuries.
I'm seeing a lot of parents at Kirk Cameron's book reading. Every child is accompanied by an adult. Should they be worried about the content? Do the children need to be protected from Kirk Cameron?
OdeToJoy » 15 Apr 2023, 11:28 am » wrote: ↑ No, I haven't dodged it. It is for parents to decide which activities their children go to. A lot of parents decided they didn't like Kirk Cameron. It is up to them.
You keep trying to deflect to a different subject.
The subject is pre school book readings.
OdeToJoy » 15 Apr 2023, 11:13 am » wrote: ↑ What Aboutism.
If people want to take their children to an activity; that is their business. Just like when parents escorted their children to see Kirk Cameron. Their business.
I fully support social programs that will allow women to keep and raise their babies: Expanded Medicaid, Universal Health Care, WIC, universal preschool at 2-3 years old, daycare, Foodstamps, nutrition programs, banning for profit companies from school lunch programs, job training programs for new moms, women receiving government stipend (the French do this) for staying home with young children, expanded Section 8 housing vouchers, county health nurses that monitor families after going home, drug, alcohol, and mental health programs, etc.Beekeeper » 15 Apr 2023, 11:26 am » wrote: ↑ Oh, so that gives you an "out" from your SUPPORT of GAY SEX, Tranniesm, and all other forms of PERVERSION AND SIN IN GOD'S EYES! And that's NOT to mention your FULL SUPPORT to MURDER BABIES in their mother's womb!! What was it JESUS had to say about the little children??!
Funny how GOD says you are A LIAR AND A SINNER for that, but you think you will get a pass and NOT have to account for it NOR atone for it??
Vegas » 15 Apr 2023, 11:36 am » wrote: ↑ Would you say the same if parents wanted to take their children to a reading by strippers or porn stars?
roadkill » 15 Apr 2023, 11:34 am » wrote: ↑ Then why are some schools encouraging transgenderism behind the parents back? They even tell the kids not to tell their parents.
It's OK Ode...you've already answered the question by way of omission.
OdeToJoy » 15 Apr 2023, 11:47 am » wrote: ↑ What aboutism.
This is at the library, and they are fully clothed
You said parents have the right to decide what their kids should be doing...then you dodged my question when I showed that schools undermining the parents behind their backs.
roadkill » 15 Apr 2023, 12:04 pm » wrote: ↑ You said parents have the right to decide what their kids should be doing...then you dodged my question when I showed that schools undermining the parents behind their backs.
Ode...yer a simple leftist coward.
OdeToJoy » 15 Apr 2023, 12:32 pm » wrote: ↑ We are talking about library book readings. Not What Abouts.
Deflection and distraction.
Glad to hear you support the Parents Bill of rights act that passed through the house recently. Call your state senators and tell them to support it.OdeToJoy » 15 Apr 2023, 11:28 am » wrote: ↑ It is for parents to decide which activities their children go to.
Nope. Both activities are being held at the library. Both activities are for pre school children. Both had parents accompanying their children at the events.Vegas » 15 Apr 2023, 11:49 am » wrote: ↑ Doesn't answer my question. You are the one that started the what aboutism when you brought up Cameron.
I forgot about your hypocrisy.
Jesus said that hypocrites are going to hell.
Ode is a hypocrite.
Therefore, Ode is going to hell.
roadkill » 15 Apr 2023, 12:34 pm » wrote: ↑ Ode is on the run. It wants its own narrative with no interruptions.