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Board Game Teaches Kids To “fight Tyranny”
The entrepreneurs behind a new board game combine fun, engaging play with an unmistakably patriotic message in an effort to teach traditional American values too often avoided by today’s educators.
I recently had the pleasure of hearing about the venture from co-creator Robert Snizek, who explained the idea for “We the People” came when he realized the next generation’s dearth of knowledge concerning the basic principles of Capitalism.
During a game of Monopoly with his young children, Snizek said he illustrated the game’s roots in teaching the free market system to post-Depression adolescents.
“I started laughing as I compared the principles of Capitalism to the ones we were being taught by the media and advocates of big government today,” he said. “When I had to explain the humor to my kids, I realized that they are oblivious to what America has traditionally stood for in the world.”
That experience led Snizek to develop “a game that taught history but also taught the difference between the Founders’ vision of a small, limited government and the various systems of big government that exist throughout the world today.”
The resulting game is intended to reach kids of all ages and assist parents in sharing a message vital in today’s culture.
“Our primary purpose for creating this game was to make a tool parents can use to teach American history and the different political systems of government in an entertaining way,” Snizek said.
He explained this generation of youth is especially distracted by technology; and thus, it can be much more difficult for a board game to make an impact.
“Today’s youth … live in a fast-paced wold of text messages, tweets, and Facebook comments,” he said, noting his game “presents the Founders’ words, deeds, and beliefs as well as the documents and events surrounding the Revolution through modern-day America in the form of tweets, not chapters and chapters of information.”
He said each short, researched bit of information “encourages discussion to facilitate learning and interest.”
A source listed on each card provides further information for more in-depth discussion of any topic.
Gameplay of “We the People” involves three decks of cards – History, Social Justice, and Disappoint Big Brother.
According to Snizek, the bulk of information is contained among the 500 history cards; but the other two decks help create the opportunity for teaching by example.
“Social Justice cards [and] spaces cause the player to lose their winnings to other players – redistribution – or to the Pork Barrel,” he said, explaining “they also provide comic relief in the game.”
Disappoint Big Brother cards give players rewards “for doing patriotic, moral acts, or good deeds in their everyday lives and for modeling self-reliant behaviors,” he explained.
Though the object of any game is to provide an entertaining diversion, Snizek said he hopes his also serves a higher calling.
In distributing “We the People,” Snizek said he wants to help create “an informed American people. We want America to remain independent and free by reaching the rising generation and those who may be undecided.”
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism
A Case For Conservative Christianity
Over a century ago, the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church vehemently spoke out against socialism as the movement started to gain some prominence in the church,
“It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder…The first and most fundamental principle…must be the inviolability of private property.” The Rerum Novarum encyclical of Leo XIII (1891).
‘Social Justice’ has become a popular catchphrase. It’s a movement that fits well in today’s PC culture.
Coincidently, a whole Christian culture has emerged primarily devoted to a zealous pursuit of economic and social equality. The conservative principles of Biblical Christianity are quickly becoming a thing of the past. While social justice, a phenomenon embraced and championed by Modern Christianity, has emerged as the hallmark of contemporary faith. Where does that leave a compassionate conservative like me, and those of my ilk?
Very frustrated.
Despite its repackaging, socialism has found new life among Christianity.
Many of the liberal Christians I have spoken to often reveal a hidden agenda which has more to do with a type of innate wealth envy. The Christian socialist wholeheartedly embraces taxes as a punitive measure to ‘even the playing field’, a type of retribution against the rich.
According to the socialist, the wealthy are actively contributing to an ever growing social inequality. They perceive the rich as enjoying a type of success worthy of contempt and condemnation.
If this sounds like the liberalism of the secular progressives, well, basically it is!
Can government ever deliver somebody from a life of poverty?
The conservative cries foul in response to such a notion, firmly believing the only way to be delivered from poverty is by securing a steady job.
The Christian conservative understands the needs of the poor will be best served by the Church, in an effort to rehab the whole person, body and soul.
By embracing liberal spending policies and forced monetary redistribution, modern Christendom is seemingly putting faith in man to right wrongs that run much deeper than issues of governmental policy, shared dependency and equal results.
Ultimately, the Christian conservative warns against supporting policies and programs that run contrary to God’s law and His grace. We must refrain from coveting the personal resources and wealth of others. We must reject the promise of unsustainable government-sponsored comprehensive support.
According to Theologian Douglas Wilson, when it comes to political ideology the choice is clear,
“Belief in the lordship of Jesus Christ obligates us to a position that honors the concept of limited government…to take personal responsibility, honor the property of others, respect and follow the sexual ethic of Scripture, refrain from taking the blood of innocents, remember the poor with our own funds (as distinct from funds we stole from others), and respect the need for the civil magistrate to stay within his appointed bounds. Now, take those positions and bundle them all together. What do you …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism