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Related: About this forumBible School Uses Hitler Quote To Promote Education For Children
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/bible-school-hitler-quote_n_5440205.htmlThe 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)Given it's use as a mantra by Michael and Debi Pearl
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Wow.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)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
cbayer
(146,218 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)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.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)They apparently really inflate their degree of influence.
http://jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com/2013/04/22/how-influential-are-michael-and-debi-pearl-and-how-harmful/
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)Did they really think it was ok?
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)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)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.