Ron Luce - an extremist rallying teenage workers to promote his agenda

I have been watching an incredible expose on christians and the extremist christian warriors forming in the USA. Christina Amanpour takes on the leaders of these sects in various religions, not only christianity.God's Warriors is the title of the series. If these little children, teenagers and cooked up parents are the warriors then I want to know who I am battling? Is it them?On to Ron Luce. I think that in the series it noted that he has a school, a bible school on 42hectares of land. His students pay $650 per month to be at this school.Ironic his name don't you think, Luce? Short for Lucifer? Interesting.Anyways, I digress. Luce, let's call him Luce, he charges these kids to attend his school where they can't listen to any secular music, watch any rated movies or programmes and cannot read anything that isn't approved. That is scary isn't it? I think so. I also think that it is shocking that Luce has provided each student at his school with a computer and headset and asks them to sit, everyday, and preach the word of his lord to anyone they can get hold of on the phone.That sounds incredibly to me like slave labour. Hell, it sounds worse than slave labour because at least slaves are paid. These kids are paying to be his slaves.Throughout the entire programme on CNN there was a distinct lack of parental presence. All that I saw was young children shouting about the word of the lord, angrily fighting with gay people in San Francisco, violently protesting for their beliefs. I think it's great that these kids are involved and believe in something. But I am vehemently against brainwashing of any sort. These kids looked brainwashed.I cannot believe that anything this propagated can be good for anyone, for children, teenagers or adults. In fact, religion has done nothing for our world other than to create wars that have lasted centuries. Palestinians and Jews, The Crusades, US war on Iraq and many others. All inherently religious based wars. Where is the good?Now we are roping in our youth without giving them a choice or an alternative. This scares me, the Battle Cry and God's Warriors scare me, it is all very worrying.

Don't Pump Petrol? What A Load Of KAK

What the hell is me not pumping petrol on a specific day going to do? Sure, there will be a few thousand people not pumping petrol, so fucking what?The petrol companies will lose a couple million, a couple hundred million? And then? Then the next day all the people who didn't pump petrol on that specific day will go the next day and pump their petrol and then give their money back to the people they are protestin.I know this sounds defeatist, but lets just be honest for a second, the big organisations don't give a royal shit about anything that any of us do.At the moment I can't really think of a better alternative to this sort of protest if it even counts as a protest but I am certain that this is not the best way to do it. If you are truly committed to the cause then go get yourself a hybrid car or start riding bicycles or catching public transport to ease up on the consumption of petrol but be logical about it.Can anyone think of a more effective way to combat the high petrol prices? Anyone?