Posted on 06/24/2023 2:53:43 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Parents of an Ohio fifth-grader say their son’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was coerced during class into making a pagan idol, that is, the likeness of a spirit worshiped by Native Americans.
Students at one of Lexington Local Schools’ elementary institutions were instructed in class to make a Kachina doll, used by the Hopi Indians as a “sacred object” to teach children about spirits believed to have “special powers,” such as curing the sick, as the class worksheet explains.
“What type of luck does your doll bring?” says the worksheet, which instructs the students to create the doll using the outline of a mask and then to “write about your Kachina doll’s powers.”
Benjamin and Amie Mutti practice the Messianic Jewish faith, according to which creating idols is a grave violation of God’s Commandments.
A website on Native American culture explains that “Kachina dolls are made in the image of various kachina spirits which the Hopi worship” and that Hopi children “are taught to regard the kachinas with a deep religious awe.”
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PING
Sorry but Kachina dolls are NOT idols, this is just clickbait to enrage people who have no knowledge of kachina dolls
Idols are vessels for demonic worship.
You know nothing about this subject and are showing it.
kachina dolls are not idols
Hang them all over your house and get back to me in 2 months. Report back on how “good” your life is.
Double dare...
Now let's try: "What do you wish Muhammed had said? Write your own sura."
“the dolls are not religious objects. They are not idols. The Hopi do not worship Kachina dolls.”
https://chimayotrading.com/2021/02/05/about-kachina-dolls/
Put your money where your mouth is.
Prove me wrong.
Hang them all over your house and post back to me in two months how awesome your life is.
You do that and you open the world of hell to your life.
I’m not clicking on your link. I know about this, but you seem to be a stubborn adolescent who thinks they know what they are dabbling with.
***Sorry but Kachina dolls are NOT idols***
I understand the MASKS are where the power is among the Hopis. Any way, all the idols did not help them keep from being defeated by the Europeans.
“I’m not clicking on your link”
Yeah because you hate seeing the truth and facts and reality
Johnny, explaining his idol figure: “My pagan idol has the power to drink until he falls down completely drunk and is arrested by the town sheriff.”
I remember reading all the Greek myths in fifth grade but it was books checked out of the library.
School back then was readin, ritin’ n rithmatic.
I don’t remember any class on religious studies even in HS. Okay, not even college.
I get it that the Left is trying to push an agenda. But it wasn't always like this in the past.
Seriously my brutha, who TF called in the Hopi Nation PR firm and the Ultimate Northern Hemisphere Gang of the Enlightened and Open-Minded Pantywaists to make fine distinctions about what "idols" are. This is pagan spirit junk, which is exactly how they have been presented to the children.
Here's what Kachina Dolls--Native American Vault says about kachina dolls:
Native American Kachina Dolls are representations of spirits or personifications of things in the real world. They are not worshipped but are viewed as powerful beings who can bring goodness to the world through healing, fertility, protection, even rainfall. There are many concepts for Kachinas such as those for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, among others. They are also understood as having human-like relationships, since they can marry and have children, uncles, aunts, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers.
https://www.nativeamericanvault.com/collections/kachina_dolls
We’re clearly in a massive spiritual war.
You went to school in the “good old days”.
Hopi Kachina (Katsina) Native American Art Hand-Carved Dolls: Meanings, Collecting, and Appreciation
Hopi Katsinam are crafted to acknowledge celestial beings, significant animals to the Hopi people, and the ancestors who help with their harvest, raising their spirits as well as raising their children. The Hopi people believe that the Katsina dancers possess supernatural powers, though they are men from the village wearing masks and feathered costumes
Native American Katsina and Kachina Dolls
In Native American culture, a kachina is the spirit of a deity, natural element, animal, or ancestor.
Kachina dolls were made in the image of the spirits worshipped by the tribe. They were not toys to play with, but religious icons to celebrate and contemplate.
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