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TWO EXCLUSIVE: Invisible Children Promoted By Jason Russell As Gods Trojan Horse
Posted April 5th, 2012 by Wayne Besen
This audio clip incontrovertibly shows Invisible Childrens invisible agenda, said Truth Wins Outs Executive Director Wayne Besen. It is not simply about Kony, but being phony and concealing the motivation behind its deceptive campaign.
Truth Wins Out has obtained exclusive audiotape from a 2005 Christian conference in San Antonio where Invisible Childrens co-founder Jason Russell calls his organization a Trojan Horse to introduce the secular realm to his groups version of Christian fundamentalism. The audiotape reveals that that his organization is particularly focused on targeting youth in public high schools. According to Russells remarks (0:44):
Coming in January we are trying to hit as many high schools, churches, and colleges as possible with this movie. We are able to be the Trojan Horse in a sense, going into a secular realm and saying, guess what life is about orphans, and its about the widow. Its about the oppressed. Thats Gods heart. And to sit in a public high school and tell them about that has been life-changing. Because they get so excited. And its not driven by guilt, its driven by an adventure and the adventure is Gods.
Invisible Children is the group that launched a viral video, KONY 2012, that reached millions of viewers worldwide and became an Internet sensation. The ostensible reason for the video was to highlight the brutality of Ugandan LRA leader Joseph Kony.
However, the group raised alarms after researcher Bruce Wilson showed the group was funded by the National Christian Foundation, a fundamentalist outfit that finances extremist right wing organizations and anti-gay groups.
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http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2012/04/23987/
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(36,418 posts)Why not? L. Ron Hubbard turned a corporate business model into a tax-exempt religion. Why can't an entrepreneurial televangelist turn a viral web-based campaign against genocide into profit and a platform for personal prophecy?