in order to celebrate this awesome event, i have taken the liberty of drawing up a sample curriculum.
- we don't have to talk about anything uncomfortable. (lesson on ezekiel 3)
- we are better than the people we cast out! (lesson on 1 corinthians 11)
- god wants us to exclude people. (lesson on isaiah 56)
- jesus only welcomes SOME of us. (lesson on the gospel of luke)
and there will be practical life skills taught, too, every day.
the church will be teaching the young and old alike that when YOU are assaulted, you must keep quiet about it, because while we forgive you for having been touched inappropriately and we will forgive you for being stalked by the perpetrator, we will NOT forgive you if you tell, because it is not ok to cause disturbances in the church by telling what happened.
so you better keep all that to yourself. you better not try to claim any dignity back for yourself, and you better not stand up to the perpetrator when the pastor (who has known about the assault for over a year) decides to have him stand over you during a service with the collection plate.
if only you had kept quiet, not told, not cracked when he followed you around, not tried to take back your own dignity it would have been all right because we forgive you for letting yourself get assaulted, but we will NOT forgive you for speaking up.
we will turn you away and you will be outcast forever. you will not be welcome at the Lord's Table, even though the fraudulent pastor will say the words "radical welcome", even though the church says ALL ARE WELCOME on all its materials.
it is a lie.
part of the church school curriculum has been the central lie: all are welcome, but they are not.
it could happen to you. you'd better keep quiet about it, because all are not really welcome. you'd better be quiet. you'd better behave.
Jesus loves and welcomes all.
except those who speak up.
it is a dangerous indoctrination.
i'll see you on the streetcorner.
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