Oops: Church Group Puts Hitler Quote on Billboard
Context is important. If a normal person said to you, “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future,’’ it could sound like a reasonable notion about supporting kids.
It sounds a lot different when you realize it’s a quote from Adolf Hitler.
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Life Savers Ministries missed the subtleties of context when it included that quote on an Alabama billboard.
According to East Alabama’s Ledger-Enquirer:
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It’s not like the group was hurting for a pro-kids quote. They have one on the very same billboard. A bible quote, no less: “Train up a child in the way he should go. Even when he is old, he will not depart from it.’’
That’s a good, old-timey quote from Proverbs, but somehow it got second billing to the Führer.
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