Character Training Institute (this is not a science fiction story)

[donsu]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2450/

Cult of Character
How the 'secular' Character Training Institute is working to build evangelist Bill Gothard's vision of a First-Century Kingdom of God--one city, one state, one school board, one police force and one mind at a time.


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the 10-story Character Training Institute (CTI), which also serves as the headquarters of the International Association of Character Cities (IACC).

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He takes a polite moment to explain that this is a very important "Building Cities of Character" conference, sponsored by the IACC. Many people, he adds, have come from all over the world to be here.

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Inside the institute, Arizona state treasurer David Petersen takes to the conference podium to tell how his state's Family Services Committee passed "Character Education Legislation."

"All schools now have it implemented," he says proudly. "We're fighting for the soul of this nation." Petersen is not being hyperbolic. He attributes his passion for "character" to a personal meeting with evangelist Bill Gothard.
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read the rest of it and feel really bad

[TomInTib]

1. Ugh.. I thought it was BS until I got to the OKC jail part......

Onward Christian Soldiers.

Damn, this is unsettling.

[DBoon]

2. evangelical fundamentalism is 21st century stalinism

even to the point of using front groups to infiltrate legitimate organizations

[atommom]

3. These people really need to be watched. Their true desire is a

Dominionist government.

[maxsolomon]

4. remove their tax exempt status

and the Chrisian Right dissappears.