Satanic image found in Pearland, Texas, school (courtesy KHOU-TV)
Posted on 12/12/2004 11:26:33 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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Satanic image found in Pearland, Texas, school (courtesy KHOU-TV) |
Local school officials in a suburb of Houston, Texas, are investigating how it was possible that a school police officer handed out calendars to students that featured explicit details on satanic and sexual rituals for every day of the month.
Parents in Pearland are demanding answers, according to a news report on KHOU-TV.
The school police officer who handed out the calendars was supposed to deliver a positive anti-gang message to the students last Monday, according to the report.
"September 20th is a 'midnight host' whatever that is," said one unidentified parent reading from the calendar. "You should have a blood-type ritual. September 23rd is the fall equinox – you should have an orgy. Activity group sex, any age, any sex."
The father did not want to be identified because he feared his daughter would be punished.
"They shouldn't be teaching the kids, at 12 years of age, a calendar of satanism. It's just not right," he said.
Pearland school officials say some 25 students at the junior high received the calendars.
"It clearly was a mistake," said Renea Ivy, Pearland ISD spokesperson. "We don't want it to happen again and so – it was not done with malice, it was not done to promote satanism in any way on the campus. It was just a mistake."
The officer said he got the packets from a anti-gang training course he took. Officials say he neglected to take out the adult material. The police officer remains on duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
Anti-gang training provides you with examples of material that may be associated with gang activities.
It gets crazier everyday.
One might not believe in Satan but, Satanists exist. And, they leave traces of their activities. Curiously, the nation with the highest percentage in the population is Italy, although Bulgaria may still be on the rise. If you travel along the main north-south highway from the austrian border to Brindisi, nearly every rest stop has their markings on it.
Actually, there is a very short history of Christians committing persecution and a very long history of Christians being subjected to it.
The constant warfare between the Socialist left and Christian right is tearing this country apart.
Not to pick at nits, but started by which side?
It's OK if you believe it doesn't really matter where the chips fall, but I disagree.
Shalom.
Spoken like someone who doesn't care enough to understand what he is talking about.
Shalom.
We're homeschooling up here. When the legislature was trying to make the PA law look more like the Texas law we got involved. I actually had a homeschooling parent say that it was necessary for the state to oversee homeschooling to make sure the parents did a good job.
And, no, she wasn't being sarcastic!
I think it's something in the water.
Shalom.
You're starting to sound like a nutcase. I appreciate the Constitution and I wish we would follow it better, but it's hardly a holy document.
No other "Holy" book of any faith grants freedom for all of God's children.
Have you bothered to read the New Testament?
Shalom.
Don't foret the ACLUists (Libertarians?) persecuting others.
Shalom.
Phelps is a whack job and the vast majority of people who identify themselves as Christians utterly repudiate him.
Including those who believe in the Constitution who want to force their dogma on others.
Can you truly not distinguish between someone who believes he is right and someone who is a zealot?
Maybe not - you sure sound like a zealot.
Shalom.
You are right to point out that fanatics who wage war do so from a religious base; however, not all fanatics wage war (at least not in a material sense).
Read this to find out about Hitler:
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/pinkswastika.hold/book.html
Of course horrible crimes have been committed in the name of religion. In the case of Christianity, it's not God's fault or Jesus Christ's fault, it's the fault of fallible people who either were using religion as a cloak to commit atrocities.
Islam, OTOH, seems to have tenets that mandate forcing itself on others, so that's a different situation.
Anyone can call themselves a Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, or Sikh. Doesn't mean they are living up to the codes and teachings of their religions, or that they are even sincere. Some are just crooks, scoundrels or criminals; wolves in sheeps' clothing.
It sounds as though you know very little about what the founders of this country actually thought and believed. How about this one from Jefferson:
"Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests
of society require the observation of those moral precepts ... in
which all religions agree." --Thomas Jefferson
And those moral precepts are remarkably congruent.
Should read:
"the fault of fallible people who were using religion as a cloak to commit atrocities."
No, he wasn't. He was a worshipper of Thor. He found most of the Bible "entirely too Jewish," and banned certain scriptures' being taught is the state-sanctioned "church," known as "die deutsche Kirche." Many a priest or minister was killed for speaking out against the use of pagan rituals at military funerals - which they were obliged to attend. At least that's what I learned studying church history at a state university in Germany. I don't mean to brag. I just want you to know that you are mistaken on an important point.
Dr. Ellis: The panic affected much of the English-speaking world from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s. Not only the United States, but Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and even South Africa and Zimbabwe were touched in some way by the rumors. The gist is that a large number of underground organizations were brainwashing members, often through initiation rituals of mind-numbing depravity, and then encouraging them to go out and commit heinous crimes including child abduction, rape, and murder. The contemporary version called these groups “Satanic cults,” but the ideas they were based on had been recycled from earlier conspiracy theories in which the bad guys had been Communists, Jews, Masons, etc.
Watchman: Recently animal slayings in Ohio were blamed on Satanic ritual slayings but the media later abandoned that theory as false. Is there a stereotype of Satanism and so-called “satanic ritual crime” that continues to play a part in American culture?
Dr. Ellis: Sadly, yes. Probably the most widespread stereotype is that “Satanic cults” can be identified through some sort of shared set of symbols or predictable holidays. Scott Peterson’s attorneys made much of the fact that Laci was reported missing on Christmas Eve, supposedly a “Grand Climax” in a Satanic calendar. Previously, a woman had disappeared on May 1, another “Grand Climax” date, and was subsequently found murdered in ways similar to Laci Peterson. This correlation superficially makes sense until you begin to look closely at the alleged Satanic calendars. First, none of these have ever been traced to the practice of any observable or documented cult. The calendars appeared first in 1987, as part of an overblown article in Passport Magazine alleging a nationwide conspiracy of ordinary-seeming citizens in the ritual abduction and murder of two million children per year. (If true, this meant that over half the children born in the US every year died in Satanic cult sacrifices.) As critics later pointed out, the dates were borrowed uncritically from a wide range of sources, including the 15th century witch-hunters’ manual, the Malleus Malificarum.
Even if we take the calendar seriously, critics have noted that it covers some 123 days out of the year, or one out of every three days. Given the uncertainty of when a given crime was committed (police think Laci Peterson might have been killed on December 23 and reported missing the next day), it’s possible to link just about any crime to a “Satanic holiday.” In any case, is it likely that any cult would be able to fulfill the prescribed numbers of abductions, rapes, and ritual murders without drawing police and (more importantly) media attention to the pattern?
Sadly, the calendar is available from over a hundred websites, nearly all Christian in orientation. In at least one case, a pedophile was apprehended with a copy of this document in his pocket: he was not a Satanist, but had gotten the list from a Christian-sponsored public event supposedly warning against cults. Yet as the calendar had recommended sexual abuse of a child on an upcoming date, he had carried it out to the letter. Christian organizations need to ask whether the information they circulate in fact discourages evil acts or, paradoxically, could encourage some people to commit the crimes we decry.
http://www.watchman.org/occult/ellisinterview.htm
"Even though DARE programs have done more harm than good, they are continued because they benefit special interests. Why are you defending these programs?"
Please...show me how I gave you the impression that I "defend" these programs. I DON'T! DARE has consumed vast sums of taxpayer money & not one single "study" done on the effectiveness of the program in deterring drug use in children has been able to show that it does. DARE & the Anti-gang/Anti-violence programs are a collosal waste of time & policing resources. I have spoken out against both at both school board meetings & as the coordinator for our local Police Auxilliary. Then you say:
"Who else besides a religious group would be interested in warning against satanism, and who else but the government would be stupid enough to fund it?"
That statement clearly demonstrates the type of closed-mindedness evident in athiests & agnostics. Which are you? The fact is, there are a number of secular organizations that have sprung up in the last 30-35 years (going all the way back to the days of the Moonies, Jim Jones, & the Love Israel groups) whose only mission is to educate the public about the dangers of cults & to attempt to rescue individuals who've been sucked into them. In the past decade, satanic cults have become the dominant problem, evident in the "Goth" activities among school-age kids & graduating to Wicca, Witchcraft, or Druidry as young adults. The brochure in question is much more likely to have originated with one such group, or even with a grant-funded Justice Department initiative developed by some Criminology Dept. at a major university, than from a religious (Church) group. There is but one exception...the Jehovah's Witnesses tend to produce anti-Satan comic-book style literature. I suppose they could have produced such a calendar, but I rather doubt it. First of all, NO police dept. would partner with the J.W.'s. For that matter, the J.W.'s wouldn't partner with the cops, either. Secondly, the J.W.'s would NEVER solicit or accept government money for any reason - not to teach cops about Satanic cults or to publish a calendar.
Look, I'm not trying to blow smoke up your behind. I do happen to know a thing or two about policing, crime deterrence programs, & "religious groups." I'm a 2000 graduate of Wash. State University with a B.A. in Criminal Justice. I am also a Christian. Under what credentials do you make such outlandish accusations?
Sure is more work on the home schooling parent to keep the records they require in PA .....
Agree with your thoughts on keeping state out of homeschooling - however I have seen some parents who are doing a sloppy on/off job of homeschooling - so....which is best - an official agency to test or deal with more uneducated young people?
"It was just a mistake."
They got that right!
Houston PING
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