ABERCROMBIE
& FITCH PUSHING PEDOPHILIA
Dear
OneMillionMoms.com member;
Known for using sex to reach the college age and
young teens with their softcore porn catalogs, Abercrombie and Fitch is
now going after pre-teens in the same manner with their thongs underwear.
A&F is pushing their thong underwear in children's sizes with the words
"eye candy" and "wink wink" printed on the front.
The rearless underwear comes in sizes for girls ages 10 to 16. The
smallest size can fit younger girls.
Hampton Carney, a spokesman for A&F, said of the pedophilia inciting
thongs: "It's cute and fun and sweet." But Lisa Maxwell, a parent,
said: "It's Frederick's of Hollywood for preteens and teenagers."
Carney countered by saying, "It's not appropriate for a 7 year old, but
it is appropriate for a 10 year old.." Abercrombie &Fitch is the
retailer which produces Playboy style catalogs which target the college
age and younger crowd.
Sexually
Stimulating to Adults
Brian Camenker of the Parents' Rights Coalition said, "A&F is selling
clothes to make children sexually stimulating to adults."
Some of the thongs have stripes, others are solid pink or blue. The solid
colored thongs have the words "eye candy" printed in a little pink
heart and "wink wink" in a small green box.
The company has caught criticism from the public before because of their
quarterly catalogs, which are filled with models who appeared to be
college age or younger in the nude, kissing and fondling each other. The
company defends its catalogs, calling them a celebration of a youthful
and spirited lifestyle.
Corinne Wood, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, and South Carolina
Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler, have both called for a boycott of the A&F
Company.
Some feel that A&F, through the promotion, is inciting pedophilia. Taking
offense at the idea, Carney contended the thongs were designed for girls
to enjoy, and no one else.
First A&F targeted our college kids and teenagers. Now they are
targeting our pre-teens. Let A&F hear from you today! Forward this
project on to your friends and family. If you get a bounce on an email, it
is because the box is full or A&F has turned off the box. But your letter
is being sent to several officials at A&F, so don't worry.
Thank you.
Donald E. Wildmon
Contact A&F at:
kids@abercrombie.com
A project of the American Family Association
From:
afa@afa.net
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millionmoms@lyris.afo.net
Facing Sin in Education
- Ronald W. Kirk
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August 2002 - Chalcedon Report
To neglect inherent sin in our own children is to fly
in the face of Christ's sacrifice for those dearest to us, with perhaps
dire consequences. On the other hand, the careful training and correction
that constitute education will help prepare the child to walk with Christ
for a life of service and positive influence for the Kingdom of God.
The ravages of sin among men ought to put Christian
parents on high alert. Because we have a natural predisposition toward it,
sin spreads like wildfire. To save mankind from the fatal influence of the
sin of the time, God, in the Great Flood, destroyed a population
conservatively estimated at over a billion.1From the ancient
Roman practice of crucifixion, to the medieval torture chambers, to the
mass murder perpetrated by twentieth-century communist regimes, grotesque
evil is quite the natural and historic norm. Parents ought to remember
that those capable of such horrendous acts were all once babies too.
Yet, the profoundly Biblical Faith of the Reformation
and early America inhibited the growth and spread of evil. Christian
influence, beginning with child training, produced a norm of goodness and
liberty. However, evil has once more become rampant. This should not be
surprising when the Biblical doctrine of sin scarcely gets airtime even
among Christians. Today, with Christ now reigning by the Holy Spirit from
the right hand of the Father and giving power to His saints to do good (2
Cor. 12:9; Eph. 1:19; 2:10), slothful complacency regarding sin has no
excuse.
Preparing Good Soil
Christ's Parable of the Sower declares that evangelism consists in two
parts. In this parable, the Seed is the Word of God proclaimed. The Seed
produces its effect in good soil. However, no good soil occurs in nature,
because it is fallen. Just so, no goodness naturally occurs in the heart
of man. Sin hardens the heart and chokes the gospel message. According to
God's providence, good soil results from toil both in nature and in the
human heart. Toil is an act of faith. God Himself then effectually brings
the crop or the saved soul to fruition. Such sacrificial work is the
Christian's reasonable service for the gift of grace. However, due to
historical pietism, for two hundred years the church has concentrated
almost solely upon a verbal evangelism.
Biblically- and evangelically-minded Christians ought
once more to confront sin through godly influence. In this work, there is
no more important frontier for the gospel than our own homes. Effectual
evangelization of our children must include effacing the effects of sin
through the educational process. Such training will not only prepare
families for salvation, but will also prepare the children to have a godly
influence in a society in desperate need, and contribute to the gospel
preparation of others. Successfully rearing one child for Christ can
produce a multiplicative effect toward the salvation of many. Therefore,
as an essential part of education, let us face the sin of our children.
Here is the essential psychology and educational
premise of the Scriptures: While created in God's image, the child is
fallen into sin. Although he possesses an inherent value, he is lazy and
recalcitrant against God's requirement to take dominion over the earth,
independent of his achievement or contribution. In God's likeness, he
possesses great potential. Yet the child requires correction and
redemption. Children are sons of Adam and possess the same deeply
rebellious nature. The natural child, a slave to sin, races headlong
toward death. Sin scrambles the child's very faculties. Parents will
either prepare the soil of the heart and mind of the pliable young child
to receive God's grace, or condemn him to the school of hard knocks in the
world of sin, presuming upon God to chasten the child through the harsh
experiences of life "on the streets." Though there is no condemnation to
those in Christ Jesus, correction is a way of life, and we parents must
rise to the call.
The message of Ephesians 4:20-29 declares that
Christians need discipline, that is, directed practice. Passages such as
Galatians 3:24-4:3 and Proverbs 22:6 indicate the child needs training.
Consistent practice forms habits of conduct for good or evil. Like a
slave, the child must be told what to do and how, and be directed into
proper practice. Otherwise, he will slavishly obey the flesh and
not what is right. Rev. Rushdoony says, "We are not permitted to call our
stubbornness and rebellion anything but sin."2 But, the child
who is trained to cast off sin and embrace Christ, like the shedding of a
catepillar's chrysalis, grows to become a beautiful butterfly able to
carry grace in a worthy manner.
"Minor" Manifestations of a Rebel Heart
Children are capable of great and godly appreciation for spiritual things,
but not if the flesh is in control. Therefore, parents must minutely
correct, not out of irritation or other selfish reasons, but because
parenting is a holy trust with eternal consequences before God. Every time
a child smirks, he shows his contempt of authority and love. Every time he
avoids a parent's gaze, every time he speaks or acts rudely, he expresses
the sin of Adam, which, if it hardens becomes ever more difficult to
correct. The loving parent will address the heart of the child through
requiring confession and, according to the child's ability, explaining the
Biblical reasons for correction. It is a good idea to teach the child to
thank the parent (or teacher) for correction. Such a practice will prepare
a habit of gratitude to Christ for His correcting work. Children who laugh
or cry uncontrollably are bound by foolishness (Pr. 22:15) and must
be corrected for God's glory and their good. Habitual frenzy is an evil to
the child, which may easily harden into habit and perhaps lead to worse
behavioral problems such as ADHD or bipolar disorder. Likewise, teachers
who allow sloppy learning habits encourage hardening into permanent
character the natural short-circuiting of the human faculties under the
curse of the Fall. The perfectionist child or one who otherwise refuses to
attempt to learn must be corrected. Perfectionism in the child is sin,
disallowing the correction and growth that amounts to true education.
Children of Christian parents often learn to look righteous, but
find sneaky ways to exert independence and autonomy. Eye rolling indicates
an attitude of the heart toward rightful authority ultimately God's
authority. Small signs reveal the heart of the child. Children must learn
to respect parental authority so that they will respect God's authority.
Parents must correct even innocent appearing actions, if, as conduct
habituates, something less than godly love is the result. What a child
lives and practices becomes his character. Parents who refuse to correct
their children lovingly and minutely destine them to sinful habits and
dispositions.
Sin resists the investment of training because it
constitutes work. Children are naturally lazy. Children must accept
the economy of difficulty in this life under the curse, so they may work
by faith and have their faith imputed as righteousness. Child-centered
educational views that allow the child to determine the magnitude and
direction of his educational effort encourage the child in his natural
disposition to laziness.
Men, including very young ones, naturally and
sinfully hold women in contempt. In the manner of the Fall, men blame
women (Gen. 3:12). Throughout history, men have therefore naturally
subjugated and humiliated women. In answer, the father must require the
son to respect and obey his mother. The child must accept the teaching and
correction of the mother as well as the father. If he shows disrespect, he
will answer to dad. Single mothers suffer a pointed disadvantage in this
regard. To compensate, single mothers should muster a suitable toughness.
(The men of the church community can help in this regard.) The young man
quickly assumes a self-appointed leadership role in the home, but without
firm training, does so upon a sinful basis. Adolescent young men believe
in their autonomy even against the authority of an involved father. It is
part of growing up. God made men to go head on with the world to take
leadership and dominion. Consequently He made men tough-minded masculine.
However, natural sin inclines the young man's hard-headedness toward
destruction. Likewise, parents must correct children who exhibit fawning,
slavish compliance while harboring an attitude of rebellion. Parents and
teachers must be tough enough to correct corrupted expressions of conduct,
so that tough-mindedness finally resides in God's righteousness, initially
trained and subsequently fulfilled by grace.
No time is too early to start training a child. When
parents say, "Don't touch that hot stove!" what does the toddler do but
touch the stove? A baby will seek to "liberate" himself from the embrace
of his mother, though a fall means injury or worse. The same baby will
roll himself out of his mother's hands and off his changing table. We must
take sin seriously. Parents must resist and correct manifest sin
particularly in young children. The remediation of sin will be much less
painful than if we allow the weeds and the woods of the radical sin nature
to establish and prosper. Young oak trees on the California coast are
naturally gawky and awkward in form. If left to a natural growth, the
young tree remains ungainly for a long time. To correct the form requires
a chain saw. It is sweaty work and leaves scars, but it is far easier to
pinch wayward branches from the seedling and train the form from the
start.
Love rules with godly mercy. A practice designed to
efface the effect of natural sin does not recommend harshness and
severity. An arbitrary standard of accomplishment rather than a standard
of progress and growth frustrates the child and gives him an excuse to
rebel. If the child cannot please his parents, why try? Parents must
accept their children and grant them affection unconditionally. Indeed,
the more the child requires discipline, the more unconditional affection
we owe. Consider Jesus' disposition of patience and mercy toward us in
this regard.
Parents and teachers who simultaneously correct the
sinful and direct the educational process toward the attitudes, character,
wisdom, and skills to support a gospel life will go far to hasten the day
we see His will done on earth as it is in heaven.
Notes
1. John C.
Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record
and Its Scientific Implications (Philipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and
Reformed Publishing Co.: 1961), p. 26.
2. Rousas J. Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law (Vallecito, CA:
Ross House Books, 1973), p. 69.
Ronald Kirk is engaged in research and development promoting
Chalcedon's work to the Christian education market
Aliens, Monsters &
Creepy Creatures
What do they teach
our children?
Berit Kjos <crossroad.to>
"The experience of a
close encounter with a UFO is a shattering physical and mental ordeal. The
trauma has effects that go far beyond what the witness recalls
consciously. New types of behavior are conditioned, and new types of
beliefs are promoted. The social, political and religious consequences of
the experience are enormous...."[1] Astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallee
"Our generation won't be shocked by the
demonic invasion. They are actually anticipating that extraterrestrial
intelligent beings, who look very different
from us, will some day contact the earth and help us with ecological,
monetary, and political problems."[2]
Larry McLean
The invasion of monsters began decades ago, and it
quickly transformed the world of entertainment. With little resistance, an
army of cute-ugly creatures swept into toy stores, television and movies.
They now adorn children's clothes, bedding, wallpaper, lunchboxes and
books. And many have pushed their way into children's hearts on the backs
of seductive myths that mold their thoughts and manipulate their
imagination.
Some of these monsters
are crude and cool like Stitch, Shrek and the serpentine aliens of Men
in Black. Others appear wise and honorable like Yoda in Star Wars. But the creatures that win the prize for
thrills and chills are the dark and deadly ones like Darth Maul, Tolkien's
Orcs and the ominous aliens in Signs.
They all serve a set of strategic social and
spiritual goals: They entertain. They shift a person's attention from the
real world to a more titillating realm created by those who write the
myths and steer the imagination. They tempt Christians fans to re-imagine
both God and themselves in the new context - thus bending the old
realities to fit the new myths. They desensitize their fans to mystical
images and symbols of evil. And they stir a craving for more intense
excitement of the same kind.
Eventually the real world of nature, families,
work and Biblical truth becomes too boring to be enjoyed. Who cares about
truth and facts when myths and fantasies seem far more
exhilarating?
"For the time will come," wrote the apostle Paul
almost two millennia ago, "when they will not endure sound doctrine, but
according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will
heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from
the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all
things...." (2 Timothy 4:3-5)
Today's postmodern world has little tolerance for
Biblical watchfulness. Instead, it embraces its mythical heroes with a
driving passion that often eclipses both family and reality. The more
shocking, crude and ugly, the more cool and captivating the product.
Hollywood and toy makers know that well.
Perhaps
you remember the
Madballs from the late eighties. The grotesque bouncing
heads bore matching names like Wolf Breath, Swine Sucker and
Screamin'
Meenie. With shrewd foresight, their inventor,
Ralph Shaffer, suggested that his successful
minispheres would "take the world of cute-ugly into a new
direction."[3]
He was right. The
ugly-ugly as well as the cute-ugly was turning the corner and pulling
Western culture with them. Grotesque, demonic-looking creatures with fiery
eyes invaded toy stores, then stayed. Many were mutants - part animal and
part human, or a mixture of various animals and monster. And most could
wield the kind of supernatural power prescribed by their built-in myths
and stories.
They won
incredible popularity. Children quickly overcame their natural aversion to
scary images and learned to treasure these ugly,
hybrid, mutant supernaturals.
Few noticed their resemblance to the demonic creatures described in the
Bible.
One of those early
creatures of darkness, Black Star, would ride on a green horse with
huge bat-like wings and a long dragon tail. Its eyes were glowing red and
a long tongue dangled from its mouth. Another popular invader,
Dark Dragon, had black wings
and a huge tail with red scales along the sides. Hiding a skull in its
chest, it had a lion's mouth, teeth, and claws. Its
eyes were glowing red, and out of the center of its forehead shone
a large, green third eye.
In a lecture titled "The
Rising Interest in the Supernatural," Larry McLean, coauthor of
The Early Earth, compares
today's grotesque toys to historical images representing ancient gods:
"These [creatures] that
show up in archeology and what we would call mythology were not just
figments of the imagination. They were literal physical demonic entities
that appeared to civilizations of the past. These types of demigods or
demonic beings were represented as part human and part animal in their
characteristics like this bird-human of the Assyrians. [They can be]
horse-and-human like centaurs. Or fish-and-human like the god Dagon of
the Philistines ... or part jaguar and part human.
"Notice
that tongue hanging out over the chin -- which is a universal symbol of
demonic possession ... One of the most popular combinations
is human and serpent. You can find them on the toy shelves. It's not
surprising that pagan religions worshiped serpents and dragons, for the
Bible tells us in Revelation 12 that the old serpent, the dragon, is
Satan the devil."[4]
Nor should today's growing
popularity of devilish images surprise us. The Bible prophesies that
demonic activities will escalate before and during the reign of the
Antichrist. Could the multiplication of demonic-looking, alien images be
part of Satan's plan to prepare us for these awful future events? Even for
an invasion of demons?
Don't laugh. There is plenty of evidence that a
sizable percentage of UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop circles and
other extraterrestrial manifestations fit into the realm of the
supernatural. According to John Ankerberg and John Weldon, "UFOs
constitute a spiritistic (demonic) phenomenon."[5]
In their book, The Facts on UFO's and other Supernatural Phenomena,
they tell us that -
"...few unbiased researchers can logically deny that UFO experiences are
of an occult nature. If we catalog the basic characteristics of the
occult and compare them to UFO phenomena, we discover an essential
similarity....
"After 20 years of
research, we believe that the demonic theory dovetails extremely well
with the totality of UFO phenomena.... In fact, we know of no UFO
contactee who is not basically a spiritistic medium. In addition, we
have read hundreds of articles from the oldest and most respected UFO
journal, the British Flying Saucer Review, that indicate the
psychic and/or non-extraterrestrial aspects of UFOs which, given their
actions and messages, indicate probable demonic origin."[6]
"The UFO phenomenon simply does not
behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order
to fit a given culture.... [The] goal seems to be psychological and
social manipulation."[7]
These threats have not escaped notice. According to
"Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up" by Timothy Good,
"the ubiquitous UFO phenomenon... [is] a phenomenon that has caused grave
concern at high levels of many of the world's governments, despite their
statements to the contrary."[8]
Ankerberg and Weldon came to the same conclusion.
They found that "in the U.S. alone, tens of millions of dollars have been
spent in official UFO investigations by the CIA, FBI, U.S. Army
Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, and other organizations." They quote
astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallee who describes UFOs as "a bizarre,
seductive, and often terrifying phenomenon reported by many witnesses as
contact with an alien form of intelligence."[9]
Naturally, many UFO enthusiasts and New Age leaders would disagree. Some
began to circulate a far-out notion decades ago: A group of benevolent
aliens or ascended masters would suddenly appear on the earth and cleanse
it from all who resist its spiritual evolution toward global oneness. At
the same time, they would prepare humanity to receive the prophesied New
Age "Christ."
To some New Age
followers, those expected aliens would illustrate "the beautiful side of
evil" rather than the grotesque images of occult idols. But either way,
these "masters"[10]
represent a hierarchy of warring demons that match the warning in
Ephesians 6:12:
"...we do not wrestle against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of
wickedness in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12
Different versions of those seductive deceptions have
spread around the world through the writings of countless occultists.
Their numbers include the infamous satanist Aleister Crowley as well as
Alice Bailey, whose channeled messages from spirit guide Djwhal Khul
inspired United Nations and education leaders such as
Robert Muller and
Dr.
Shirley McCune.
But God's Word shows us
the truths behind those illusions. Revelation 9:1-11 foresees a day when
the Abyss (the bottomless pit where Satan will be cast) will open with a
burst of smoke and release an army of powerful, deadly creatures onto the
earth. They will look like a mixture of man, horse and locust with wings.
They will have stinging "tails like scorpions," and their commander will
be Satan himself. Our sovereign God will allow it; for man's evil - as in
the days of Noah - and God's eternal justice will call forth His judgment.
Though children are born
with a natural fear of hideous, shocking and evil-looking creatures, this
God-given protection has been dulled by America's massive media marketing
system. Children are being conditioned to embrace demonic manifestations,
whether they come as intelligent rescuers from outer space or as evolved
mutations from earth itself.
Why wouldn’t most
children accept these lies? Today's belief in evolution leads them to
trust that other forms of life must have evolved elsewhere. After all,
humanist dreamers tell us, there is no God, but if He existed, He
wouldn't have created the whole universe just for earthlings.
Maybe He would. Maybe God,
who sent His own Son to die for us, would create a universe so vast that
man's ego - which wants to explain every mystery without God's help -
could not be satisfied. Maybe He did it to show us the immeasurable
greatness of His sovereign, creative powers and the infinite width,
length, height, and depth of His magnificent love. I believe He did.
"Oh, the depth of the riches
of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His
judgments and His ways past finding out!
For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has become His counselor?"
Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?"
For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things,
to whom be glory forever."
Romans 11:33-36
How can we
encourage our children to follow God and make wise choices
in these
challenging times? Find practical suggestions in -
Your Child and the New Age and
Bewitched by Harry Potter
Endnotes:
1. Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts
and Cults (Berkeley, CA: And Or Press, 1979) pp. 9-10. Cited by John
Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on UFO's and Other Supernatural
Phenomena (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1992), page 9.
2. Larry McLean, from tape of lecture titled, "The Rising
Interest in the Supernatural," given at the Seventh Mid-America Prophecy
Conference, Oklahoma City, 27 July 1988.
3. Ralph
Shaffer, the director of new-product development at General Mills Toy
Group (which included Kenner and Parker Brothers back in the late
seventies) worked with
Bernard Loomis, who conceived
the idea of sets of action figures "with lots of characters and a story
tying them together." Promoted through television, these toys required
little personal imagination since they came with built in myths and
pre-designed personalities.
Read the interesting history by
David Owen, in
"Where Toys Come From,"
The Atlantic Monthly, October 1986.
4.Larry McLean, from tape of lecture titled, "The Rising Interest in the
Supernatural" given at the Seventh Mid-America Prophecy Conference,
Oklahoma City, 27 July 1988.
5. John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on UFO's and
Other Supernatural Phenomena (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers,
1992), page 6.
6. Ibid., page 14-15.
7.Ibid., page 10.
8.Timothy Good, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO
Cover-up (New York: Morrow, 1988), page 12. Cited by John Ankerberg &
John Weldon, The Facts on UFO's and Other Supernatural Phenomena,
page 6.
9. Ibid., page 5, 18.
10. Do a search for "Theosophy" on this
website using our search engine. Or find "Theosophy" on these pages:
Atlantis,
A
Twist of Faith, Chapter 10,
A New Way of Thinking,
Conversations with [a] "god". You will find many other influential
Theosophists who twist the Bible and anticipate a New World Order without
Christianity.
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