Berit Kjos is a well-known Christian writer in many news sites. She had three sons and two grandchildren and lived with a husband, Andy Kjos.

She is the creator of the website crossroad.to about christianity, prayer, culture and education reform.

Her criticism of video games, role-playing games and movies has also drawn the attention of critics of her views.

Broadcasts

Berit is a frequent guest on national radio and television programs; Kjos has been interviewed several times on The 700 Club, Point of View (Marlin Maddoux), Bible Answer Man, Beverly LaHaye Live, Crosstalk and Family Radio Network. She has also been a guest on "Talk Back Live" (CNN) and other secular radio and TV networks.

Crossroad.to

Media entertainment

Berit's website covers many topics. Among these are articles critical of many popular movies and cartoons. These have included Sailor Moon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Dragon Ball. Even Christian inspired books like Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings are questioned for their use of mythological beasts and monsters inspired by non-Christian beliefs. Role-playing games like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons have also caught her attention. Here were some of the articles presented in 2006:

Marketing the occult: Harry's impact on "Christian" values

Karate, Kids, and the Culture: Your Child and the Martial Arts

Role-Playing Games & Popular Occultism

Answers to questions about occult entertainment

Lord of the Rings: When an Obsession Is an Idol

Movie Magic and Unconscious Learning

Horror movie characters are also a target, including Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. Such characters, in her view, promote witchcraft. Predictably, Harry Potter with a situation plot based entirely around witchcraft also falls under question, as does Pokemon, which are based on monsters.

Virtuous virtual entertainment

Violent and morally dubious entertainment such as Grand Theft Auto have been targeted by Berit Kjos. Like Jack Thompson, she calls such games as "murder simulators" and moulding the minds of both toddler and youth to destructive behaviours in adulthood. According to Berit Kjos, " "The training methods militaries use are brutalization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and role modeling. ... Just as the army is conditioning people to kill, we are indiscriminately doing the same thing to our children, but without the safeguards."<ref> [925] Toying with death</ref>

Music

Like many other music critics, Berit has also known to criticize rock music and pop music.[926] She cites Dave Hart, a research analyst for Menconi Ministries who identifies Party metal the most popular style as emphasizing sex, drugs, partying, and living for today with no thought for tomorrow. "It’s the stuff getting on the charts: Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Del Leppard," explains Hart. "There is very little overt occultism." Party metal, says Berit, has stooped to the level of kinky, cruel, and violent sex—"porn rock"—such as Judas Priest’s song about oral sex at gunpoint.

Controversy

Some Christians have been critical of Berit Kjos as false prophet . They object to the idea that who love entertainment are loving evil more than good. The anti-game christian tends to quote the bible to support her arguments, and was later being described then as cafeteria christian. Ironically, Berit has used Wikipedia to support her views alongside with the bible verses.

Brave New World

Berit warns against the plethora of strange new labels that have begun to define our schools, workplaces, clinics and other institutions. Few understand them terms like OBE, STW, TQM, CGM, PDC or Third Way. She believes they are not just a local agenda but point to a global management system. The most important question in her mind is who defines the terms and sets the standards?<ref>[927] Reinventing the world</ref>

Strategic new terms are changing our thinking. Words such as stakeholder, partnerships, facilitator, accountability, assessments, win-win, empathy, synergy, consensus, continual or managed change. Berit claims they provide the "seamless" framework for managing and monitoring the global community. This revolution has three major but inseparable parts:

1. SYSTEMS: a network of "seamless" management systems or organizational frameworks that link all the pieces and manages the global transformation. [See systems thinking]

2. A mind-changing PROCESS: a standardized but flexible process that conforms each human resource to his or her place in this vast network of global systems.

3. STANDARDS: a set of universal standards that holds all people accountable, forcing them to adapt to the changing aims and needs of the system.

Total Quality Management

According to Berit, Total Quality Management or TQM is based upon the Hegelian dialectic, invented by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a transformational Marxist social psychologist. In the Hegelian dialectic process, a diverse group of people (in the church, this is a mixture of believers (thesis) and unbelievers (antithesis), gather in a facilitated meeting (with a trained facilitator/teacher/group leader/change agent), using group dynamics (peer pressure), to discuss a social issue (or dialogue the Word of God), and reach a pre-determined outcome (consensus, compromise, or synthesis). She warns that such systems can be used to institute programs such as new standards-based math instruction or mandated High school graduation examination while giving the public the impression that it was the result of popular demand rather than the designs of a few.<ref>[928] Small Groups and the Dialectic Process</ref>

Education Reform

Berit Kjos is one of the leading critics of Standards Based Education Reform (also previously known as Outcomes-based education) and School to work. In her book, Brave New Schools, she claims that factual learning and individual thinking are out, feelings and group thinking are in. If this international system is put in place, she claims all children will be monitored through a national computerized data transmission system designed to build a permanent, personal file on every child. Those control the new "school-to-work" system will affect all children, including children taught at home and in private schools.

Berit vs. Christians and other religions

Berit is especially critical of groups associated with witchcraft, most notably the Wicca. She also takes a dim view of Christians who indulge in entertainment and games which are influenced by occultist and Satanist beliefs.

She has described the followers of Islam as infidels or terrorists .

Berit Kjos publicly takes a strong position against racism and terrorist hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, she likens increasing government control over people's lives and thoughts to Nazism and similar movements. Yet anonymous detractors have claimed on open source internet articles that Berit Kjos is a KKK supporter, and dislikes African Americans and Muslims.

Berit's vs the entertainment industry

Berit has been quoted as opposing some of the most popular cultural books and games:

<blockquote>But why did Amazon also list Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition Player's Handbook as best-seller #6? What common threads have raised Harry Potter and D&D, "the bestselling adventure game of all time," to the peaks of popularity?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Warner Brothers -- producer of the Harry Potter movie scheduled for release next year -- granted Hasbro licensing rights to produce a variety of Harry Potter toys and games. Pagan fun has become big business!</blockquote> [929]

Mattel and Hasbro were also targeted for selling Wizards of Coast and trading cards like Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. The Harry Potter movies and books have also received criticism from conservative christians, with Berit in the lead.

Notes

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See also

Video game controversy

Media controversy

Outcome-based education

External links

Berit Kjos's site

Comments on Berit's negative views on other religions, some positive and negative

Comments made by people page, and also with both mixture of positive and negative reviews