Children in India beaten, forced to convert to Christianity. I guess some things never do change.

Courtesy of the Hindustan Times:

Forcibly converted to Christianity, hung by the wrists from a ceiling fan, starved for days and beaten mercilessly for failing to recite Bible passages — this is what a nine-year-old boy said he had to endure at an illegal shelter. 

He was among 30 children, all from poor families, rescued on December 29 after police raided two homes run by the Emmanuel Seva Group in Greater Noida and Meerut. The child, who along with his younger sister and brother had been confined to the home for three years, said their stay was like a “jail term” during which his name was also changed. 

“I was allowed to meet my parents once a month for only 15 minutes. The only thing I was taught was the Bible. They forced me to memorise its passages,” the boy told HT on Thursday and added that the children were forced to consume buffalo meat and “paraded” before potential donors. “They gave us good clothes whenever visitors came. 

They made us stand in line and recite Bible passages. Faltering meant a beating with sticks and belts later,” he said. “Once the guests left, the shelter in-charge snatched away our clothes, sweets and gifts and we were back in rags again.”

I am always amused by Christians who seem to believe that their religion spread because of its inherent truth, or that people were compelled to convert by the word of their god and not the pressure they were put under to do so.

If you believe this to be an isolated incident, or that even harsher tactics were not used in times past, then you are either purposefully ignorant or simply ignorant.

Even as recently as sixty or seventy years ago the native children of Alaska were stripped of their cultural identity, beaten for speaking their native tongue, and forced to change their names to those found within the Bible, all in the name of saving their eternal soul.

Like I said, things never change.

Boise woman tries to convert Jewish friend by stomping on her neck. Must make Jesus proud.

Courtesy of KTVB:  

A Boise woman is facing felony charges after police say she attacked a Jewish acquaintance, stomping on the woman's neck as part of a bizarre bid to convert her to Christianity. 

Margurite Dawn Haragan, 58, has been charged with two counts of malicious harassment in an attack police have labeled a hate crime. 

Prosecutors say the incident started when Haragan showed up at the victim's home Feb. 5. It's not clear how the two women know each other. 

"The defendant was banging on the front window yelling at her that she better believe in Jesus and she was not going to leave until she did believe in Jesus," Ada County Prosecutor Dave Rothcheck said. He said the victim, identified in court only as "A.G.," opened her door to tell Haragan to leave and to write down her license plate number. 

That's when the suspect slapped her in the face and dragged her to the ground by her hair, Roscheck said. 

"The defendant began kicking the victim in the stomach and thigh area," he said. "During this time the defendant was screaming at the victim that she better accept Jesus or she would not let up."

I must have skipped that part after the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus waded into the crowd and started bitch slapping them toward salvation. 

So I guess it's not JUST Muslims who will kick your ass for not converting to their faith.

Good to know.

Minister brags that he "punched a kid" as hard as he could in order to get him to accept Jesus Christ as his savior. You know because violence and Jesus Christ go hand in hand.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

A pastor at the Bible Baptist Church in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey is coming under fire after his church posted a video of him claiming to have converted a “smart aleck” youth by “punching him in the chest as hard as I could.” 

Pastor Eric Dammann begins by saying that he met a young man in Calgary named “Ben,” who was “a nice kid, but one of those — he was a real smart aleck. He was a bright kid, which didn’t help things — made him more dangerous.” 

“We were outside one day at youth group,” Dammann continues, “and he was just trying to push my buttons. He was just kind of not taking the Lord serious [sic].” 

“So I walked over to him and went BAM! Punched him in the chest as hard as I could. I crumpled the kid. I just crumpled him.” 

“Then I leaned over and said, ‘Ben, when are you going to stop playing games with God?’ I led that man to the Lord right there,” he concludes.

I found it enlightening that this guy identified the boy's intelligence as making him "dangerous." And responded by using violence in order to overcome the boy's resistance.

Sounds to me as if this guy did not have a great deal of faith in his religion if he felt the need to beat a child up in order to sell him on his particular brand of Christianity.

You know I have worked with kids for most of my adult life, in one form or another, and if I had EVER put my hands on a child the way this guy is describing they would have not only fired me but thrown my ass in jail.

Where, by the way, I would have deserved to go. 

Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson respects the Jewish people so much he'd like to make them all Christians.

"As long as they're Christians." There fixed it for you.

Courtesy of Haaretz: 

Patriarch of A&E's Duck Dynasty, Phil Robertson, who has caused controversy in the past with homophobic and racist remarks, is on a mission to bring Jews closer to the Christian faith. 

According to WebProNews, Robertson and his son, Alan, are taking part in an event organized by the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute. The group's stated aim is to "bring Jewish people into a personal relationship of faith with Yeshua the Messiah, knowing their acceptance will eventually mean life from the dead (Romans 11:15).” 

“The MJBI equips leaders who will establish Messianic Jewish congregations and ministries in Jewish communities worldwide. Additionally, the MJBI seeks to equip the Church in its responsibility to take the Good News to the Jew first (Romans 1:16). Like Paul, the MJBI helps educate Christians in their role to provoke the Jewish people to jealousy and thus save some of them (Romans 11:11-14),” the group's website says. 

The event, titled "A Tale of Two Ducks," will take place at the Fort Worth Convention Center on November 1, with tickets costing between $100 to $10,000.

As we have covered many, many times here on IM, the Fundamentalists only respect the Jewish community and support Israel for what they represent to them. Tools needed to help usher in the End Times.

In the end Israel itself is supposed to undergo a mass conversion to Christianity, which will essentially make it all one big born again theme park.

Robertson is just getting a jump start on what he, and his ilk, see as the eventual outcome anyhow.

Why wait? Eschew your traditions, and the religion of your people, and join the Christo-fascists now.

I understand that the first one hundred will get a genuine Duck Dynasty duck caller, useful for calling pagan ducks to Jesus Christ or luring them close and blowing their feathered asses away if they refuse to submit.