The Pagan Olympics...

[allenehatherell12]

I am not sure how exposed you all are to the Olympics, happening here in Beijing soon. I am sure some of you are able to steer well clear and how very fortunate you are!! but I just thought I would mention a couple of things about them as it has been shown to me recently there is a lot of ignorance about the whole pagan show. Many Christians I know here are very excited about them and are buying tickets to go. It is pagan, and it is all about money...Thousands of people suffered compulsory relocation so that a 3.50 thousand dollar stadium could be built in Beijing. And that was just one stadium of the many that have been errected in under 3 years....yet millions of Chinese still live without toilets and running water in their homes. Its common in rural areas to not have access to schools, medical clinics and even a proper roof over their heads. Will the average man in the street ever set foot in such a stadium? No. The whole system of sports is riddled with drugs and corruption. Its is also a fact that here in China children are removed from their homes at aged 2 and 3 and placed in training camps if they show the slightest sign of being supple, tall for their age or having good posture. The parents have no choice. These training schools are often hundreds of miles from their homes and they will see their families from then on, if they are lucky, once a year for 3 days...imagine. The harsh snow storms that fell this past winter meant many will have to wait another year to see their loved ones....2 years without seeing their families, holidays are national only, you cannot just take a couple of days off and travel. No choice. The methods used to groom these children for national success is barbaric. Yes, there is drug testing in the sporting world now, how sad that this is the norm....but the attitude to this is to find a way to avoid the testing....and they call this sport. On the track women now run in no more than bras and pants....all lycra, and many men tune in not for the athletes performances but for the amount of flesh on display. Sundays? they do not matter if you are an athlete. My son was not able to continue playing in his soccer league as games were on a Sunday....he was ridiculed for that, can God not be glorified on the pitch? did God not give him the skill for a purpose? etc. And this was from ''Christians''. To be honest, I get the most criticism from Christians. Now we hear the olympic torch, costing thousands of dollars to ''run'' around the world, will go through Chengdhu, site of the earthquake....I am sure all those parents who lost their children in the 7000 schools that collapsed, will stand cheering outside the government buildings and party members palatial homes that did not crumble into dust at the first tremour. Sister Allene <>< PS. The added tradgedy is that for most women, there is no choice to have another child...sterilisation is routinely done without concent or the womens knowledge, when they have their ''medically advised'' caesarian sections.

[mitchell]

Sister Allene,

How well I remember, back in grade school we actually were allowed to at least give a nod to the Holy Scriptures, memorizing the 100th Psalms around the Thanksgiving holiday. By the time I was a senior in high school, the liberal control over the education system had asserted itself sufficiently to where we were required to study "Greek Mythology", masquerading as "literature" in English class - nothing in the world but a bunch of pagan hogwash old wives tales and so-called intellectuals' fantasies. Of course, my parents came from the era of the one-room schoolhouse and the McGuffey Reader, so they were babes in the woods about such "learned and erudite" stuff as "Greek Mythology". They were betrayed by the system, and I also feel like I was as well.

The "Sports Program" has pretty much always been, as long as I can remember, raised to the level of just about a religion. (If you want to know the real religion of an area, just watch for the spillover of automobiles parked at the local high school on just about every Friday night.) The little boys are early on indoctrinated to be the perfect little sports heroes, the girls to act butch and "excel" in sports - some even feeling their oats playing soccer and football, the girls who can't play some sport are encouraged to either "compete" with the other girls in their class to be a cheerleader or else dance in the horrible "dance squad", in which all are dressed skimpily and gyrating and tumbling in disgusting simulations of all types of "sexy" moves.

It's pretty much well, disgusting, to see the old men (a lot of them city "fathers" who have set up these sports manic programs at the times when they served on this or that board of education and whatnot) - to see them sitting and drooling over the little girls prancing about scantily clad, twirling batons and waving pompoms. Can I say, it's disgusting again? I've seen enough of it to last a lifetime, having been a cheerleader as early as grade school, thankfully having escaped it by high school. Then, when my husband's brother's children were in high school sports, we went to watch them march in the band and play football (I would just flat refuse now. One sometimes just goes along to get along, I suppose.) Thankfully, that's over, and I do refuse to go to any more of those sports events. I've decided that if my husband wants to go, he can just go on by himself. He doesn't now, but was under pressure to attend soccer games where we attended church. The greatest pressure came from his father, who was a "sportsaholic", and he felt the pressure to go with his father to the games so as to "be with him before he got too old and died".

I have to ask, "why do kids need all this frantic activity all the time??" What is wrong with just being at home with the family and enjoying leisurely, nutritious meals and kind and uncompetitive games with their family? Why must children be forced into cutthroat competition with their peers?

I must tell you that I cannot express enough how sad it is to watch parents buying into all this fol de rol, hook, line and sinker. No wonder kids are so depressed and stressed by the time they're in high school!

Oh, and I don't like the Olympics either. It is the biggest lot of roody pooh, but say a word against it, even to professing Christians in some cases, and you've labeled yourself as ignorant and uninformed.

Homeschooling now and homeschooling forever! Christian people need to stand up and tell themselves the truth about all this worldly stuff and get some control of things, under Christ.

Wanda