Posted on 01/30/2015 3:13:15 PM PST by NYer
The "C-word" is, of course, Christ.
Anita Dittman survived Hitler and the Nazis. Born Jewish, she became a Christian during the Holocaust. And it's that part of her story which is verboten in public schools today.
WND
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Jews met their death, gave her cause to reflect once again on life under the Nazis.Sad. We silence Holocaust survivors because they have a message of hope in Christ.
Her message is different now, she says, much different than when she first went public in 1978 with her experience as a Holocaust survivor.
Could it happen here?
“When I started speaking in 1978-79, people would ask me, ‘Do you think it could happen here in this country?’ And I said, ‘Oh no, people are used to so much freedom in this country, it could never happen here,’” Ditmann told WND. “When they ask me that question now, I say, ‘It is already happening.’”
Americans are not “disappearing” as in Nazi Germany, but Dittman says something has changed.
“The country that I came to in 1946 was very different,” she said. “I can’t speak in public schools anymore. They won’t let me.”
When she informs educators that her message will contain strong Christian themes, she usually gets a few seconds of awkward silence. Then a polite rebuff.
See the story of a young Jewish girl discovering the Messiah’s faithfulness in the midst of the Holocaust, in “Trapped in Hitler’s Hell.”
One school administrator at a high school in northern Minnesota contacted her with an invitation to speak, saying she came highly recommended by some students who had heard her speak previously.
“I called him back and left a message and said I would be honored. Just let me know the date and time, and I will be there,” Dittman said.
“I said, I have to tell you, though, that Christ is in my message.”
“Well can’t you leave Christ out of it?” the man asked.
“He is the one who kept me safe. I can’t keep Him out,” Dittman responded.
“Well, I’m sorry then. You can’t come,” he said.
Many other doors have closed at the mention of the “C” word.
“The doors were always open to me when I first started out speaking. And I spoke sometimes three, four, five times a day at schools,” she said. “Once I spoke in five classes, and when I came out of the fourth one, the principal said you don’t have to speak to the fifth because they are a rowdy bunch. Well, I told him, the Holy Spirit can work wonders, and they ended up being the best class of all. The kids want to hear it, the teachers want to hear it. But higher up is problem.”
Some schools still allow her to speak but require parents to sign a form saying it’s OK for their child to sit through a presentation that contains religious themes.
But more often, the parents don’t even have a say in the matter, and she is barred upfront from speaking.
“It’s getting worse, I tell you,” she said. “It’s so dictating to the parents now. This is how it started in Russia and Germany.”
PING!
I bet it would perfectly acceptable to use the “M” word.
M as in Muslim?
There likewise needs to be gentlemen’s agreement between the conservative candidates. Everyone but the top two in Iowa needs to bow out. The loser of the remaining two bows out in New Hampshire.
The M word? Moslem? You mean the Pagan Moon God Allah and his pedophile sidekick Mohammed, (pigs be on him.)
Oh now you’ve gone and laid it out there, so similarly I would bet that if she had become an “L” during the Holocaust she would be welcomed to discuss it with kindergarten students on up!
When, as Neal Boortz coined the phrase ‘government school’ around 2003, and everybody went wacky, today, a scvhool administrator would proudly stand tall, and state, ‘Darn right!’
There is so much wrong with this country, because too many became lazy, or wanted to have ‘dah guvmint’ do it for them, that now it effects them, and they don’t get it, and never will!
In the ‘50’s, this country had anti-Communist laws?
Wha’ hoppen??
We’se all done got lazy, thinkin’ t’ain’t nevah gonna happen here!
Sorry, you can’t credit Neil with coining that term. Ask any longtime home educator. We started in 1995 and that was a common term then.
Of course, you’re spot on about the darn right part.
dear cyclotic,
(cute name)
I am one of those Americans who have been married, but due to working in electronic high power - high frequency transmission equipment manufacture and maintenance, never sired. So I have no clue about the whys, wherefores, or turnabouts of home schooling, and my education was all before Jimmy Cahtuh’s federal Dept. of Edjumacation.
That is why I quoted Neal Boortz.
It's over the top stupid because everyone knows and says in their mind EXACTLY the word you're pretending not to say.
**“It’s getting worse, I tell you,” she said. “It’s so dictating to the parents now. This is how it started in Russia and Germany.”
Sad. We silence Holocaust survivors because they have a message of hope in Christ.**
This is the second if not third time I have seen the reference to the message and how it started in Russia and Germany.
Warning Alert!
Which is worse? The C-word Christ or the H-word Hitler? Holocause survivors must be Jewish don’t you know!
I didn’t mean to offend you.
The two largest groups containing prisoners in the camps, both numbering in the millions, were the Polish Jews and the Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held without trial or judicial process. There were also large numbers of Roma (or Gypsies), ethnic Poles, Serbs, political prisoners, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic clergy, Eastern European intellectuals and others (including common criminals, as declared by the Nazis). In addition, a small number of Western Allied aviators were sent to concentration camps as spies.[19] Western Allied POWs who were Jews, or whom the Nazis believed to be Jewish, were usually sent to ordinary POW camps; however, a small number were sent to concentration camps under antisemitic policies.[20]
I thought the same thing! : )
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