BattleCry: Christian Cult or Catalyst for Change?

by Actual News Geezer | March 22, 2007 at 01:41 pm | 1056 views | 1 comment

In precisely 22 days, 3 hours 27 minutes and 14 seconds, BattleCry Detroit will open in the cavernous Ford Field. If tt's anything like the March 9-10 event in San Francisco, it'll be wild - the air shrieking with 'battlecries" of a new generation of muscular, youthful Christians.

One of our NowPublic members has already written about the SF event, warning that BattleCry is "attempt to impose their narrow and repressive values on everyone..." and it's now "it's everyone’s duty to stand up, it becomes everyone’s duty to speak out, and it becomes everyone’s duty to take action."

Because there are now only 22 days, 3 hours 23 minutes and 50 seconds left (according to an enormous countdown clock on the BattleCry website) we do have some time to get more opinions on what is clearly a large-scale movement in the US.

If you have attended, we want to hear from you. Do you disagree with SquabbyDog? Post a comment below.

A stealthy enemy has infiltrated our country and is preying upon the hearts and minds of 33 million American teens. Corporations, media conglomerates, and purveyors of popular culture have spent billions to seduce and enslave our youth. So far, the enemy is winning. But there is plenty we can do. We need to take action. We need to answer the Battle Cry.

AT&T Park rang with more than 22,000 teens from across California shouting in worship to songs played by Christian rock bands. The talk was all about Jesus Christ, the cross, and taking a stand to save this generation.

"When you're ready to surrender, take up the sign of commitment ... by passionately – with everything you've got, with all the lights on, with no music and no emotionalism, just as if you just found the answer to all of your dreams – [jumping] to your feet and [screaming] as loud as you can: I want the cross!" Teen Mania founder Ron Luce, who spearheaded the BattleCry movement last year, exclaimed to the thousands of teens on Saturday.

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Actual News Geezer

at 12:15 on March 23rd, 2007

good stuff:

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With all the respect of your personal opinion, I for one completely disagree with your view. The God that battle Crypreached and I believe in is a God of love, very different than what you have equal to the god that instruct people to blow themselves up or fly planes into buildings.

I see that you have big problem with the money being collected, and I understand that would be a view of a skeptic. Skepticism doesn't make you wrong, but if you present your skepticism as fact without prove, that wrong. You also spend so much time on preaching your opinion without reporting anything that Battle Cry really teaches, that make this blog not very "news" worthy.

If for me to voice my opinion against violence on movie and songs, sex outside of a committed arriage, and other moral decay would make me a warrior in battle, I'm guilty as charge. I can only hope that you will personally experience the God of love that we believe in. "reason, reality and science" don't carry you very far to answer those void in your heart.