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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homeschooling fight in NC
  • Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:54:38 -0800

I have friends in NC. In fact, in the same county. The husband has been anti this church from the get go.

I'm still on the mailing lists I was on when I worked in rehab. We had an acute psych wing and worked with a lot of kids who had been in cults, including the Twelve Tribes "church." Lots of physical abuse and brainwashing.

Sound Doctrine is on the "watch list" that I get. The notices on this one are that they preach what could almost be called a form self-hate and just about everything will get you to hell. One of the ones that is most curious is that if you do generic prayers like "now I lay me down to sleep" you'll go to hell.

I have to do some more reading on another peculiar angle they have which is bloomin' hard to explain. At anyrate, my muddled take on it is that Jesus isn't Jesus because he was kind and good and gave his life and that you can't be a Christian just because you try to be good and kind and read scriptures and try to live like Jesus. It is really bizarre to say the least!

"Only those who hate their lives, deny themselves and pick up their cross to follow Jesus are Christians."

"We believe in and practice Biblical church discipline." (This is one, of several, that the hubby voiced concerns over)

Now, I do have to wonder how they balance their church beliefs with women and homeschooling because they use the old Timothy quote ("I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent") a lot!

A lot of their teachings and the quotes they like to use are real close to the old "mortification of sin" routine (hair shirt, etc.).

There is another church that had the same name but they are in the process of changing their name legally because they don't want anyone to think they are in any way related to the one in NC.

Now, from what I've seen and heard so far, part of the reason for the public school thing (besides getting them away from the cult teachings) is split custody and "continuity of education." By the kids being in public school they will have the same schooling regardless of which parent they are with at any given time.

Most of what is out there was printed by World Nut Daily. All these outfits are getting their information from them. So, I went elsewhere for info.

And, not to condone the hubby's affair but one of the strictures of the church/cult is about sex being only for creating children. She wanted no more children, therefore abstinance for DH.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


Methinks there might be a lot more to this story that is not reported,
but that doesn't change my opinion that the judge overstepped his
authority. He could have simply denied support and ordered joint
custody without mandating public school. I'm not familiar with this
Sound Doctrine Church, but obviously some people believe it is a cult.
If the judge believed that, he may have mandated school as a means of
separating the children from what is in his view a cult influence. If
that were his true motivation, and I personally think it might be, then
his comments also make more sense. My feeling is that he was trying not
to be judgmental of another adult's religion, but perhaps saw this as a
middle ground??
I'm ambivalent about it, so maybe he was too???

B

DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:
I tend to agree Rob, and without knowing their income situations, it
is hard to judge this ourselves from the sidelines.


In a message dated 3/13/2009 7:11:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
waltonrp AT gmail.com writes:

The judge has two parents with differing opinions and can't really
throw out the view of one parent because they have admitted to a
sin. I don't think that that is legislating from the bench.
also
What I'd challenge in this story is how this is encouraged by the
Obama administration?



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I am having an out-of-money experience.
http://erthnsky.blogspot.com/
EarthNSky Farm, Northwest Georgia, USA
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