{"id":557,"date":"2007-12-09T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/09\/child-are-you-going-to-hell-as\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T16:20:03","slug":"child-are-you-going-to-hell-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/child-are-you-going-to-hell-as\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Child, are you going to Hell?&#8221; asks North Dakota Middle School Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bad one, folks.<\/p>\n<p>In Simle North Dakota, at the Middle school, a<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;teacher is under investigation after showing a religious-themed video in health class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We acknowledge that a video clip was shown in a classroom that violated School Board policy and that a parent has submitted a letter of complaint,&#8221; said Superintendent Paul Johnson, reading a written statement. &#8220;We are investigating the incident and will decide on Monday what action to take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The teacher showed &#8220;A Letter from Hell,&#8221; off of Godtube.com to a health class Wednesday, according to a letter from Steven and Heather Balaban, who have a daughter in the class. Two messages at Steve Balaban&#8217;s law office were not returned, and a home number was not listed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarcktribune.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/09\/news\/local\/144099.txt\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My daugter came home the other day &#8230; she&#8217;s in middle school &#8230; and mentioned that the teacher in her health class showed a video about Adam and Eve.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut just as I was dialing the number for the ACLU (speed dial number 7 on my cell phone) she leaped across the room and wrestled the phone from me, and clicked it off.  She preferes to handle these things herself.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the video in question, from GodTube.com, is here:<\/p>\n<p>Heavy stuff.  The first lesson of this video is that if you die before you take Jesus into your heart, you will go to hell and suffer eternal damnation.  The second lesson is that if you have already taken Jesus into your heart, then your job, under thread of suffering in hell yourself, is to impose this concept &#8230; the Jesus thing &#8230;   onto your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Nice message for a public middle school.  This teacher should be flayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bad one, folks. In Simle North Dakota, at the Middle school, a &#8230;teacher is under investigation after showing a religious-themed video in health class. &#8220;We acknowledge that a video clip was shown in a classroom that violated School Board policy and that a parent has submitted a letter of complaint,&#8221; said Superintendent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/child-are-you-going-to-hell-as\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Child, are you going to Hell?&#8221; asks North Dakota Middle School Teacher<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}