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Berit Kjos is afundamentalist Christianauthor who has written several books. She runs the website Kjos Ministries, and has also worked withCutting Edge Ministries.^[1]

Kjos Ministries[edit]

One of the main draws to Kjos' site was originally her body of work attacking popular culture, although she eventually curtailed these articles around the mid-2000s. Unusually, Kjos took requests from her readers, and so alongside popular targets such asHarry Potter,Dungeons and Dragons andPokemon she denounced less frequently-attacked productions, includingDragonball Z^[2] and theSpider-Man film.^[3]

Anybody expecting a rich vein of fundamentalist lunacy is likely to be disappointed, however. Considering that her associates at Cutting Edge have claimed that J.K. Rowling's books are evil because they include the colour green,^[4] Kjos' writing is remarkably tame. This excerpt from her article "Twelve reasonsnot to see Harry Potter movies" is fairly typical:

Harry and his friends... model how to lie and steal and get away with it. Their examples only add to the cultural relativism embraced by most children today who are honest when it doesn't cost anything, but who lie and cheat when it serves their purpose."^[5]

This, meanwhile, comes from the conclusion of her article deconstructing the animated filmThe Ant Bully:

Around the world, people are being trained in UNESCO ideology. They learn to resist contrary (politically incorrect) facts at every stage in life, for UNESCO's "lifelong learning" means cradle-to-grave mind control. Year after year, compliant human ants will practice the habit of following crowds led by well trained facilitators, managers, and media moguls. A key part of this social transformation is "praxis" -- a concept central to Soviet brainwashing.^[6]

In the end, Kjos' articles on popular entertainment are usually pretty much interchangeable, beginning with minor variations of "it's got magic and vampires and stuff in it, so grrr" before descending into lengthy filibusters about left-wing economic policies and the state of contemporary education. Thereal gems on her site, then, are to be found in the letters section.

Here, for example, is one of the e-mails she received in support of her article condemningTeletubbies:

The British media is - especially theBBC - in the hands of extremist liberal immoral atheisticfascists. Dont believe the lies about independence ; it is tied to the coat tails of theLabour Party, Labour/ Trades Unions and positive discrimination industry. This tide of effluent entered into all structures of the media, local and national government, Civil Service and Education during the 1980's whenMargret Thatcher was in power).

Teletubbies is the simple outcome ofBolshevism, and the ideas ofLeon Trotsky in particular.^[7]

Fundies Say the Darndest Things has racked up an impressive collection of Kjos Ministries quotes, mostly from her readers.^[8]

If her supporters' postings are hilarious, however, the messages from Kjos' critics can be just plain depressing. A look through the responses section of her site, particularly the part devoted to anime,^[9] will reveal reams of material from strange individuals who manage to be just as sad and deluded as the fundamentalist Christians they're attacking. Just look at this post from "Cubone, the Lonely Pokemon":

Misato wasn't forgiven. She paid the ultimate price, like you probably would have wanted. Justice, right? Well, I hope it makes you happy to know that justice has been done in your eyes. Because someone has to come out of all this happy, and it's not me. Every night I cry thinking of her final moments in this world. Every morning I wake up, and the world's still there, but it's like there's this little part of it that will always be empty, cold, dark, colorless.

So I do hope you are happy that your God has done his justice. Be proud, for your battle is won, and upon your shoulders rest the corpses of the slain for all eternity. Amen.^[10]

From reading the above, you would be forgiven for thinking that Misato was this person's wife or daughter. In actual fact, she is a fictional character from the anime seriesNeon Genesis Evangelion.

When you've managed to make Berit Kjos look like one of the less nutty people in the room, then something has clearly gone horribly wrong.

Books[edit]

Kjos' bibliography includesUnder the Spell of Mother Earth, condemning the occulting undercurrent of theenvironmentalist movement;^[11]Your Child and the New Age, aTurmoil in the Toybox wannabe;^[12] andA Twist of Faith, attackingfeminist influences on religion.^[13]

Best of all isThe Invisible War, a novel for children.^[14] It stars two boys named Tom and Peter who live in the Kingdom of Troth, and shows how they were lured away from the King (representingGod) by the Baron (Satan, obviously) after they and their secular friend Colin find a secret tunnel filled with fantasy novels, books onastrology, role-playing games and aouija board. After encounters with the Baron's servantsOdin andRama, and a bizarre chapter in which Colin becomesdemonically possessed, the children abandon morally and intellectually bankrupt fantasy fiction forever and instead dedicate their lives to the Holy Bible.

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• Kjos Ministries

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