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Friday, December 23, 2016

Atheist Group Demands Stop to Christmas Drive for Needy

Atheist group the American Humanist Association (AHA) is demanding a stop to public school children participating in nonprofit Operation Christmas Child, which collects shoe boxes filled with toys, school supplies, toothpaste, and soap for needy children.

In an op-ed at the Huffington Post, Roy Speckhardt, executive director of AHA, charges that Operation Christmas Child’s goal is “converting each child to Christianity.”

He writes:

"Making matters worse, this program is conducted in public schools and endorsed by school administrators, using student labor to compile boxes of toys, to which booklets are added that include evangelical tracts, sermons, and written prayers — even a pledge card that the receiving children sign to become “God’s child.” These boxes of toys are essentially bribes used to pressure poor children living in developing countries to convert to Christianity. And Operation Christmas Child isn’t shy about their efforts, bragging about the thousands of kids they’ve converted.

“Operation Christmas Child thrives on the labor of students, and the tax dollars of their parents, who have a constitutional right to expect their kids to be free from religious intrusion,” Speckhardt fumes.

More here

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank God i am not an atheists.

Anonymous said...

Must be a real lowlife to not want to see a child smile
Coal for him

Anonymous said...

I feel badly for the atheists when the end times come.

Anonymous said...

rot

Anonymous said...

251
Those who do not believe in God will rejoice at the end!
This is the good news about Jesus Christ.
He died for ALL of us!

Whether you want it or not.
Whether you believe it or not.
All of us are God's children, we are all going to heaven.
Rejoice in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Thank you

Anonymous said...

5:24
Thank you, or better, thank Jesus Christ!
Merry Christmas