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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 10:05 AM Jun 2014

Bible School Uses Hitler Quote To Promote Education For Children

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/bible-school-hitler-quote_n_5440205.html

The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz

Posted: 06/03/2014 3:55 pm EDT Updated: 06/03/2014 3:59 pm EDT


Blaker Hooper

Alabama-based Life-Savers Ministries (LSM) has admitted that it was probably a poor decision to select a quote from Adolf Hitler for use on a billboard supporting children's education, reports Raw Story.

The large sign depicted a diverse group of smiling kids and incongruously declared, "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future," attributing the quote to Hitler. Hitler said the phrase in 1935 during a speech at the Reichsparteitag in order to encourage young people to join the Hitler Youth.

Below the Hitler quote was a Bible verse which said, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

James Anderegg, founder of LSM, told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that he was taking down the sign and "certainly never intended to cause confusion." He added, "Herbert Hoover would have been a far better one to quote when he said, 'Children are our most valuable resource.' We are a children's organization and had honorable intentions and nothing less."

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intaglio

(8,170 posts)
1. I find the quote from Proverbs just as objectionable
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 10:09 AM
Jun 2014

Given it's use as a mantra by Michael and Debi Pearl

intaglio

(8,170 posts)
4. and they've taken the worst stuff offline
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 12:10 PM
Jun 2014

Apparently 1/4" plumbers line is ideal for thrashing your kids, a child who bites whilst suckling should have their hair pulled sharply and a kid who wriggles when sitting on daddies lap should be spanked until they sit still

intaglio

(8,170 posts)
7. Not sure, but I have been told
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 12:26 PM
Jun 2014

that a sizable minority of fundamentalists take them seriously. For a self published book their work does seem to sell pretty well and has garnered 1300 5* reviews on Amazon as well as 3000 1* reviews

Debi has also published a work "Created to be His Helpmeet" though, personally, I think she has spelled the meet/meat incorrectly.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
2. Life-Savers Ministries (LSM) bible school needs the striped uniforms for their children in training'
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 10:13 AM
Jun 2014

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
6. I can't even fathom what they were thinking when they did this.
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 12:12 PM
Jun 2014

Did they really think it was ok?

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
9. Billboard featuring Hitler quote next to Bible verse covered Tuesday morning
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 10:36 PM
Jun 2014

Erin Edgemon
June 03, 2014 at 10:22 AM
updated June 03, 2014 at 2:23 PM

AUBURN, Alabama -- Before noon today, Lamar Advertising covered up a billboard featuring a quote from Adolf Hitler next to image of five smiling children.

The company made the change per the request of the Opelika-based Life Savers Ministries who paid for it ...


http://www.al.com/news/montgomery/index.ssf/2014/06/billboard_featuring_hitler_quo.html

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
10. When I clicked on this thread, I fully expected to find some
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 11:15 AM
Jun 2014

unfortunate accidental use of a phrase that Hitler also happened to say, which can happen from time to time.


I'm staggered that he was intentionally cited by the people responsible.

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