Don't Steal Your Kids Childhood, The Kekels Certainly Didn't Steal Their Kids Childhood!

This blog can be crazy sometimes. It causes me to give certain subjects entirely too much thought.

What I'm talking about here is the subject that we have been recently discussing throughout the previous thread; "the Kekels". I recently expressed my feelings about GK and how we should handle that subject. Well last night when I went to bed, I briefly (right before I went to sleep) gave the subject a little more thought.

This is an ever significant subject due to the fact that many of us were brainwashed and or psychologically manipulated into essentially stealing our kids childhood. We were taught that the only focus for our children should be that they serve GAWD throughout their entire life according to the NTCCs mandates, and that take precedence over any other career or recreational plans, unconditionally. We were taught that it was ultimately a waist of time to participate in activities other than "NTCC activities" such as soul winning and church services and conferences.

I know of an NTCC pastor who held his daughter back a year in school because her schooling interfered with his "NTCC" plans. Many parents didn't allow their children to participate in any extra curricular school activities because we were instructed not to by the NTCC leadership. It was preached and taught that in the eternal grand scheme of things, extra curricular activities or other activities such as sports, plays, martial arts, adult education, boy scouts, swim classes, sporting events, fairs, carnivals, theme parks, family outings, and anything else that didn't involve church services and soul winning was ultimately unimportant and a waist of the time that GAWD allocated us here on earth. And you know what? There are some biblical grounds to support such teachings but here is the problem and this goes back to my original point. "The Kekels".

The Kekels son was raised according to a whole different set of understood rules and standards. The Kekels son was allowed to participate in activities that the rest of us were taught were a waist of the time that GAWD allocated humans here on earth.

So you ask; "what is your point Jeff?" Some people who post here think we should back off GK because he is still kid living in his parents house. Others say "forget that, my kid was also a child when the NTCC leaders got all involved in my family business while occasionally openly humiliating my child in the process of doing everything they could to prevent me from allowing my child to have the same childhood that GK has been given all along."

Well I see both sides here and for that matter quite clearly. I believe that we should leave children (who are still in school, K-12) out of these discussions for the most part, but there is a problem if we categorically take that approach. The NTCC leaders and pastors never took that approach. The NTCC leaders stuck there hypocritical noses into every bit of our families business that they possibly could, while giving us guidance concerning our children that the Kekels never even followed. It's a slap in the face that some of us may very well never get over.

NTCC LEADERS: Because we trusted you, you took advantage of our trust and you stole our kids childhood with mandates that the Kekels never followed for their child. We thoroughly resent that and we won't forget. Believe it or not, in our lives, such events parallel 9-11. These are events that you just don't forget. You did more than just play games with us when you concocted all those rules, you messed with our children.

Jeff Collins