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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:53 PM Apr 2014

SC GOP candidate urges Christians to remove children from godless ‘Pharaoh’s schools’

By Travis Gettys
Monday, April 21, 2014 13:06 EDT

A Republican candidate for South Carolina lieutenant governor says Christians should remove their children from public schools.

“It’s our hope and prayer that a fresh obedience by Christian families and educating their children according to biblical commands will prove to be a key for the revival of our families, our churches, and our nation,” said Ray Moore, a retired Army Reserves chaplain and president of Frontline Ministries.

Moore told a gathering of Tea Party activists at the April 12 Liberty Rally that Christians must leave the “Pharaoh’s school system” for religious schools or home schools.

“We cannot win this war we’re in as long as we keep handing our children over to the enemy to educate,” he told the crowd.

Moore announced his candidacy last month, and he’ll face real estate developer Pat McKinney, attorney Bakari Sellers, and GOP activist Mike Campbell in the Republican primary.

He questions spending additional money for “students living in poverty” or to improve school technology in South Carolina, saying the public education model has been proven a failure.

“All of the symptoms, the things that we’re fighting and complaining about today has been caused because the culture has changed,” Moore said. “The culture has turned against God, against the Constitution, and against traditional values.”

Moore, who founded the Exodus Mandate organization and backs the “School Risk Audit” of LGBT tolerance in schools, claims 40 percent of public school students turn away from the church by the end of elementary school, and he claims that number jumps to 80 percent by the end of high school.

“It’s fundamentally and largely responsible because of the public school system we’ve had (for) six or seven generations, when most of us have put our children in the godless, pagan school system,” Moore said. “It cannot be fixed, the socialistic model, and we need to abandon that. As conservatives and Christians, if you think you’re going to win this war you’re in, and leave your children in those schools, it will not happen.”

Watch Moore speak in this video posted online by Dennis Wenger:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/21/sc-gop-candidate-urges-christians-to-remove-children-from-godless-pharaohs-schools/

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SC GOP candidate urges Christians to remove children from godless ‘Pharaoh’s schools’ (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2014 OP
South Carolina: too small to be a country, KamaAina Apr 2014 #1
at least they won't be introducing creationism or abstinence-only in public schools anymore. alp227 Apr 2014 #2
The Pharoah's schools??? 3catwoman3 Apr 2014 #3
Today's Tea Party: Because the 12th Century was really good. louis-t Apr 2014 #4
Fostering a society of ignorant incurious sheep Zambero Apr 2014 #5
To be honest, the Pharaohs are kind of a bad influence for kids Blue_Tires Apr 2014 #6
What an asp! nt pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #7
Yikes. Good way to create a Christian underclass. DirkGently Apr 2014 #8
Again…turn away from which ????? church. Tikki Apr 2014 #9

alp227

(32,037 posts)
2. at least they won't be introducing creationism or abstinence-only in public schools anymore.
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:59 PM
Apr 2014

They get to exercise the right to be stupid without disrupting everyone else's public education. Good for them.

3catwoman3

(24,009 posts)
3. The Pharoah's schools???
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 03:01 PM
Apr 2014

WHT is this loon talking about?

I just ate lunch, so I am going to pass on watching, as I would probably hurl.

Zambero

(8,965 posts)
5. Fostering a society of ignorant incurious sheep
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 03:05 PM
Apr 2014

Much easier to lead them this way or that way, according to one's archaic cultural and religious beliefs, as well as promoting a steadfast denial of scientific knowledge.

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)
8. Yikes. Good way to create a Christian underclass.
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 03:14 PM
Apr 2014

Yank 'em out of school and teach them lots of intolerance. Maybe throw in some textbooks about how electricity and the Moon are religious mysteries and evolution is a tenuous "theory."

In a few decades, you'd have a much bigger problem in the Christian populace than graduates from the "godless, Pagan" school system.

Tikki

(14,558 posts)
9. Again…turn away from which ????? church.
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 03:17 PM
Apr 2014

Politicians of this guy's ilk like to use the words 'the Church' when they are talking their agenda
but when it gets right down to it…they have a certain Christian religion in mind and
'the Church' doesn't fit all Christian religions.
They want you to pay them to brainwash your children 35 static hours a week.


Tikki

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