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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Delightful Children’s Book About Hell
Hey, there, all you sinners, apostates, reprobates, fornicators, sodomites, adulterers, whoremongers, and occasional jaywalkers! Time for another visit to Fundamentalist Land, with an enchanting little book for kids called The Cage: A Young Childrens Guide to the Biblical Teaching on Hell, by one C. Matthew McMahon, Ph.D., Th.D. Its published by an outfit called Puritan Publications out of Tennessee, and is aimed at helping your lovely little child understand that they are headed straight to the Eternal Fires of Hell, and will burn forever unless they are saved by the blood of Christ. We were initially intrigued to see a kids book titled The Cage, but extremely disappointed when it turned out to have nothing to do with the pilot episode of Star Trek. It might be the worst kids book weve ever seen, though its got some stiff competition.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/587678/sundays-with-the-christianists-heres-a-delightful-childrens-book-about-hell#zZkBTHRDoQpryD07.99
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A Delightful Children’s Book About Hell (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2015
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brooklynite
(94,588 posts)1. But if I understand things correctly, he put himself in the cage, right?
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)2. These fundies are sick; it makes me vomit
I hope they all get smashed by a comet.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)3. Look up Puritan Publications
It's some creepy shit.
They made the book and a video that explains the "doctrine of Hell."
dawg
(10,624 posts)4. That's straight from the Book of Genesis ....
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)5. Wait... where are the little demons with evil grins prodding the inmates of Hell with pitchforks?
What the hell has happened to Hell?
longship
(40,416 posts)6. ROFL! Here's your accordion!
And they pipe in Lawrence Welk music 24/7.
Love it!
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)7. Who are we to question or mock their deeply held beliefs?
Religion, after all, never ever motivates any negative actions. These authors are just mentally ill, or lack a social network or public safety net or something. Religion has nothing to do with threatening kids with eternal punishment for not being sycophantic toward invisible zombie Jewish carpenters.