You Deserve to Die:
The Shameful Things the "Good News Club" Tells Elementary Schoolchildren

by Eric Cernyar

Wednesday, November 28, 2012         7:00 to 9:00 PM

Penrose Public Library Adult Meeting Room

20 North Cascade Street

Colorado Springs, Colorado 

For many years, an evangelical program called the "Good News Club" has taken a surprising approach to proseltyzing - offering after school programs in public schools that teach children of pre-school age and up that they were born with "dark" and "sinful hearts," and that they "deserve to die" and "go to Hell."  The November 2012 speaker has direct personal experience with these clubs, attending them as a child and working to defend them in court as an adult.  Becoming a parent changed his point of view about the value of teaching very young children the "good news" about hell, sin, and eternal damnation in the public schools (see www.intrinsicdignity.com).  

Eric W. Cernyar is a patent attorney from Cripple Creek, Colorado. Raised in an evangelical bubble, indoctrinated in scores of Good News Club lessons, and groomed to become a defender of the faith, Mr. Cernyar donated hundreds of hours to evangelical legal causes over the past decade (including two Good News Club cases).

Everything began to change four years ago, when Mr. Cernyar became an adoptive father. Looking into the tender eyes of his son and observing his live-in-the-moment capacity to enjoy life, Mr. Cernyar realized how badly faith had robbed him, from early childhood, of the joy and innocence of life. Now, Mr. Cernyar aims to defend children from the unconscionable shame and fear manipulation of the Religious Right.

Please join the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs on November 28, 2012 at 7:00 PM as we welcome Eric Cernyar and his presentation discussing his work in opposition to "stealth" evangelical proseltyzing in public schools that appears to threaten the emotional and psychological well being of public school children who attend these Good News Clubs.    

Please visit www.intrinsicdignity.com for more information about the Child Evangelism Fellowship, Good News Clubs, and approaches designed to prevent apparent evangelical "authoritarian conditioning," "traumatic bonding," and "shame indoctrination" from taking place in America's public schools.