I used to teach environmental education (the real thing, not b.s.) I did an astronomy program in 2011 or so. At that time, the 2012 doomsday crap was going on. I showed the kids a map of America, made by George Michael Scallion, that showed the US cut in half by the Mississippi, CA gone and half of Ohio under water. As we lived in Ohio, …
I used to teach environmental education (the real thing, not b.s.) I did an astronomy program in 2011 or so. At that time, the 2012 doomsday crap was going on. I showed the kids a map of America, made by George Michael Scallion, that showed the US cut in half by the Mississippi, CA gone and half of Ohio under water. As we lived in Ohio, I asked the kids if Ohio looked like that. They said no. I then asked them what year they thought that map was supposed to be. They agreed 2012. I asked them if anyone was afraid of 2012 and one little shy girl bravely raised her hand. I told them that the map was supposed to be the year 1993 (or 4, can't remember) and asked the adults if the US looked like that then. They all said no. I told the kids there was nothing to be afraid of and told the girl it was ok - she should not feel bad because she had been lied to by people who sounded very convincing. I told them the only thing that has been consistent form the beginning of time is people predicting the end of time, and they have always been wrong. Edit: I also asked the adults if the same hysteria had happened around the year 2000, and they all said yes. None of those kids were alive then (or were very young) but they all understood that clearly the world had not ended in 2000.
Only Yahweh knows when His creation will END - not even The Son knows. He is waiting for the Father to once again send Him to earth--but this time He will be the RIGHTEOUS WARRIOR and not the BABE IN THE MANGER.
In 4th grade when I taught all of the reading material in the common core curriculum we were using was about natural disasters and went into detail how destructive and awful they are and were and scared the shit out of the kids. I didn’t use them in my own classroom, but did during student teaching. What happened to real literature?? Seriously…
"I told them the only thing that has been consistent form the beginning of time is people predicting the end of time, and they have always been wrong."
Exactly, and the church has been as guilty of this as everyone else.
25 or so years ago, I was in a staff meeting at an office job. We were discussing various disasters in the world - small talk before the actual meeting. This woman said that this was the work of the anti Christ and the world was going to end in the next few years - her church said so. None of us wanted to be rude to her but obviously that didn't happen. That church taught the woman to live in fear.
I used to teach environmental education (the real thing, not b.s.) I did an astronomy program in 2011 or so. At that time, the 2012 doomsday crap was going on. I showed the kids a map of America, made by George Michael Scallion, that showed the US cut in half by the Mississippi, CA gone and half of Ohio under water. As we lived in Ohio, I asked the kids if Ohio looked like that. They said no. I then asked them what year they thought that map was supposed to be. They agreed 2012. I asked them if anyone was afraid of 2012 and one little shy girl bravely raised her hand. I told them that the map was supposed to be the year 1993 (or 4, can't remember) and asked the adults if the US looked like that then. They all said no. I told the kids there was nothing to be afraid of and told the girl it was ok - she should not feel bad because she had been lied to by people who sounded very convincing. I told them the only thing that has been consistent form the beginning of time is people predicting the end of time, and they have always been wrong. Edit: I also asked the adults if the same hysteria had happened around the year 2000, and they all said yes. None of those kids were alive then (or were very young) but they all understood that clearly the world had not ended in 2000.
Only Yahweh knows when His creation will END - not even The Son knows. He is waiting for the Father to once again send Him to earth--but this time He will be the RIGHTEOUS WARRIOR and not the BABE IN THE MANGER.
The Day of the Lord is coming.
In 4th grade when I taught all of the reading material in the common core curriculum we were using was about natural disasters and went into detail how destructive and awful they are and were and scared the shit out of the kids. I didn’t use them in my own classroom, but did during student teaching. What happened to real literature?? Seriously…
"I told them the only thing that has been consistent form the beginning of time is people predicting the end of time, and they have always been wrong."
Exactly, and the church has been as guilty of this as everyone else.
25 or so years ago, I was in a staff meeting at an office job. We were discussing various disasters in the world - small talk before the actual meeting. This woman said that this was the work of the anti Christ and the world was going to end in the next few years - her church said so. None of us wanted to be rude to her but obviously that didn't happen. That church taught the woman to live in fear.
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Wow good for you!!