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Smilo

(1,944 posts)
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 06:42 PM Oct 2012

Invisible Children as a "Trojan Horse"

In 2005, 2007, and 2010, Invisible Children co-Founder Jason Russell made
appearances at the elite neo-fundamentalist funding confab known as The
Gathering, which brings together wealthy donors with leaders of
evangelical-right social engineering ministry efforts. Invisible
Children bills itself as secular, but in late 2011 Russell characterized
the venture
[http://www.alternet.org/story/154477/invisible_children_%22kony_2012%22_l
eader_suggests_it%27s_about_jesus_and_evangelizing], in a speech to
Liberty University students, as decidedly evangelical; and during his 2005
appearance at The Gathering [htttp://thegathering.com] (see description,
below transcript, on what The Gathering is), at a panel discussion titled
"Just Do It: The Next Generation of Missions", Russell described Invisible
Children as a "Trojan Horse" that could bring God's message into American
schools (see transcript).

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/10/4/8152/79475

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Invisible Children as a "Trojan Horse" (Original Post) Smilo Oct 2012 OP
Well that certainly was enlightening. cbayer Oct 2012 #1

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
1. Well that certainly was enlightening.
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 06:50 PM
Oct 2012

"Active donors must give yearly at least $200,000 dollars, but that's little problem for many Gathering investors."

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