An open letter to Battle Cry Youth by World Can’t Wait- Drive out the Bush Regime Bay Area Student and Youth. Click here for a report on a protest World Can’t Wait organized in to oppose the theocratic message and goals of the Battle Cry organization.
The Open Letter to Battle Cry Youth is a great example of chapters writing articles and letters that contribute to the battle to Drive out the Bush Regime and to be utilized by organizers in this movement.
Letter below. Click here for PDF.
OPEN LETTER TO BATTLECRY YOUTH
From Youth in The World Can’t Wait ( Drive Out the Bush Regime!
May 2006
Dear Battlecry People,
You think you know what this ‘BattleCry for a Generation’ thing is all about) but you have no idea! You think it’s about worshipping Jesus and listening to some cool Christian music. You think it’s about ’empowering teens.’ You see a world full of greed and decadence, where corporations sell sex, drugs, and alcohol to make a buck, and traditional ways of life are being destroyed by powers beyond our control ( a violent world, torn by war. You think you are standing up for what’s right) but you have no idea what you are getting into!
The people who have organized ‘BattleCry’ are backed by greedy corporations. Even worse, they are backed by the same forces responsible for chaos and war all over the globe ( THE BUSH REGIME. This is a fact. Bush and Ron Luce want to create an army of mindless, unthinking footsoldiers that they can send to fight and die in unjust wars. Why else would Luce have all those army fatigues and equipment — and even images of automatic weapons — decorating Battlecry concerts??
Ron Luce wants America to be a ‘Bible-based society’ where everybody lives by ‘God’s instruction book’ (as interpreted by Ron Luce, like George Bush, Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson). And these ‘leaders’ do not want you to question. Don’t question your Church ( don’t question your ‘leaders’ ( and don’t question the Bush regime.
WE, THE YOUTH IN THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT MOVEMENT, ARE NOT AGAINST RELIGION. BUT WE ARE AGAINST THEOCRACY ( the system of government ruled by a religion.
What does this mean? What would a Bible-based society (a Christian theocracy based on a literal interpretation of the Bible) really look like? And would you want to live there?
First of all, Bush, or someone like Bush, would be president ( claiming he talks to God, and God tells him what countries to bomb and what lies to tell. Second, women would not only be kept from having abortions or contraception ( they would literally be slaves belonging to their husbands (Ephesians 5:22)! Brides whose fathers can’t prove they are virgins get stoned to death (Deuteronomy 22:13-21). Holy wars would be launched against all non-Christian peoples. God’s armies would burn down villages, rape the women, and bash babies’ heads open against the rocks (Deuteronomy 20; Deuteronomy 32; Numbers 34; Psalm 137.) Kids who disobey their parents would get stoned to death (Leviticus 25:45). Gay people would be executed (Leviticus 20:13). And immigrants would be enslaved (Deuteronomy 22:28-29).
THIS IS ALL IN THE BIBLE! Is this the kind of society you would want to live in? We didn’t think so! The Bible taken literally is a horror!
We too hate seeing a world where people get trapped in the horrors of greed and war, drug addiction, and hopelessness. We share your longing for a better way for people to live together and help each other. But we do not want to go backward, to a time when the Bible ruled everything. We want to move forward, to a world we’d all want to live in.
Rise up and say NO to Ron Luce’s ‘Bible-based society’ ( NO to the Bush Regime. Join us in mobilizing for October 5, a massive day of resistance to the whole Bush program!
WE KNOW YOUR BATTLECRY LEADERS AND CHURCH LEADERS TELL YOU NOT TO ENGAGE WITH US. DO NOT BE AFRAID TO LISTEN TO US, TALK WITH US — DO NOT BE AFRAID TO THINK FOR YOURSELF.
READ OUR CALL. GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUTH WORKING WITH THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT. WE ALSO KNOW EX-BATTLECRY YOUTH WHO HAVE SEEN THE TRUTH ABOUT RON LUCE’S OPERATION AND REFUSED TO LET THEMSELVES BE USED BY BATTLECRY ANYMORE.
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN.
WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US!
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