Is Your Church Teaching Pagan Earth Worship In Sunday School?

CFP ^ | January 17, 2005 | American Policy Center

[MikeEdwards]

Many parents have sought to protect their children from the behavior-modification programs that have taken the place of academic education in public schools. To escape the assault of Outcome-Based Education (OBE), multi-culturalism, and workforce training programs, parents in ever-increasing numbers are placing their children in private schools or are home-schooling.

Public schools, and even some private schools, spend valuable classroom time engaged in "cooperative" learning (group learning) encounter sessions and discussion groups that employ pop psychology that teachers are simply not qualified to apply. These programs are designed for a very specific purpose–to change the attitudes, values and beliefs of your children in order to prepare them to be proper environmental citizens in the "sustainable" global village. Such behavior-modification programs are the very root of the destruction of America's public education system.

In spite of the "school wars," parents have felt safe taking their children to Sunday School to help build a solid moral foundation. But, have you looked at your church's Sunday School curriculum lately? You may be shocked to find tree-hugging, earth-worshipping paganism intermixed in the Christian lessons.

Many churches are now using a Sunday School curriculum created by an organization in Colorado called "Group." There is nothing in Group's publications that tells who they are, what they believe in, or anything about the backgrounds of the creators of the materials. But Group curriculum is now sold in most Christian bookstores. The Group material offers "Hands-on Bible curriculum" and advocates a "new approach to learning." . . . .

[AppyPappy]

I teach my Sunday School class and we don't have any pagan gobblygook in the material.

[sonsofliberty2000]

Same here. Churches spend too much time however worrying about outside influence while bringing trojan horses into their walls.

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Patriot Paradox

[txzman]

So is this message for people on Democratic Underground who can't tell whether or not they understand the Bible?

[maestro]

Is Your Church Teaching Pagan Earth Worship In Sunday School?

.....better,....SONday school!

:-)

[TommyDale]

Any church that would use a curriculum from an unknown and undocumented source such as this should not be in operation. What are these people thinking?

[cyclotic]

Not as long as I or my co-teacher are involved.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I have no respect for a religion that has believers bow to the ground.

Even the ancient Egyptians favored the sun god, Ra, and looked skyward for deliverance.

[Spok]

After churches lose tax exempt status and are forced to recognize gay marriage and gay behavior as acceptable, this will be next, all in the name of fairness and diversity.

[lightman]

Mike, I am not familiar with the particular Sunday School curriculum in this article. But I am very familiar and extremely satisfied with Group publishing's Vacation Bible School (VBS) kits. My congregation hasn't used anything else since Group first introduced their VBS curriculum about seven years ago.

Why>

FIRST, everything is integrated with the lessons. It is 100%
teaching 100% of the time, and this is a very needed antidote
to the compartmentalization of our society. Other kits tend to
segregate "snack time" from "game time" and "craft time" with
no connection from one to the other, and, worse yet, little or no
connection to "lesson time". What does that teach? Well,
without intending to do so, it teaches that Christian learning,
prayer, and Bible study is just one little bitty slice of life safely
out of the way, not influencing anything else, and certainly not
the center and focus of all of life. Tony Compolo says that
either Jesus is Lord of all of life or He is Lord of none of it!

SECOND, every year one of the featured lessons is Jesus's
death and Resurrection. I simply can't understand that the
denomination kits and especially the so called "fundamentalist"
kits often overlook the very reason of our existence!.

Of the kids who come to our VBS, probably 30-40% are
unchurched; another 20-30% are "C & E" (Christmas and
Easter) Christians at best, and the remainder are truly active in
this or another congregation. So many parents think that 5
sessions of VBS will make up for 52 Sundays of
neglect....that's why coming to cross and resurrection are
essential.

And almost every year the other publishes omit this most important lesson from their packages!

[TexasKamaAina]

These lesson plans are so lame they almost sound like satire. They have kids literally hug trees!

[Prov3456]

Just curious: what denomination are you in?

[pamlet]

I can't say I'm familiar with the publishing house, but found their site. Their statement of faith is that of true Christianity.

I think as Conservatives we often shy away from anything that smacks of "Environmentalism" and make the mistake of thinking that it is automatically one of extremist views. I think often Conservative Christians do not take their responsibility of steward ship of the earth seriously due to fear or misunderstanding of what that stewardship means.

[roylene]

So true!

[atomic_dog]

Someones googlefu is stale. A quick search easily turned up
http://www.grouppublishing.com/

[lightman]

Conservative wing of the ELCA--and embattled minority!

[Hi Heels]

Ya know, I read it myself before I teach it. Just a silly precaution, I know......

[lightman]

How can we confess that we believe in "God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth..." and not have an ethic of stewardship of the earth?

[Esther Ruth]

Great to see this article. I first saw this SS Curriculum over three years ago at the church we were at, no longer there, but I had the K and 1st graders. Did not like it at all. At first I could not put my finger on what it was about it, so touchy feely, a kind of bringing God down to such a level that I didn't think he belonged, in their attempt to try to communicate spiritual concepts to children they where changing the nature of how great He was, who He was to a blasphemous level I believe. Thought it would be just one or two lessons but continued to bother me, lesson after lesson. This was at an Evangelical Free Church. Another case of the church looking to copy the world in the ways it does things, so it did with education.

[SierraWasp]

Well, Mike! Isn't most of Christianity a compost of compromise with Paganism since the days of Constantine, anyway? I see it rampant in all the idolitry, rituals and pagentry... the idolization of the mother goddess as in "holy Mary," etc., even the Easter/Christmas holidays just smack of Paganism to the max!!!

The early Christians worshipped on the Saturday Sabbath, not on the Pagan SUNday. There's been a whole lot of "dirt worshipping" been slipped into to worship of Christ that doesn't really belong there, but has become so comfortable to a vast majority of clerics and compromised Christians!!!