Young Life

Jun 8th, 2023

Great place for teens to celebrate good or just hang with friends in a safe setting
Nov 24th, 2017

Is this place even still in business? It is a blight upon downtown, at any rate: apparently no more now than an abandoned building with holes punched in the walls. (The tall chimney at the building's rear also collapsed while this place was still open, if memory serves.) There is nothing that's not extremely creepy about this place, from the garbage strewn about all around and within it, to the scoreboard on the front window between "assassins" and "hotdogs" (making any reasonable person question what kind of game was being played there with the children), to the large photographic printout of a middle-aged man leering out the front door, sticking his tongue out to all passerby in a manner I'd frankly call obscene. Young Life Mankato is most emphatically *not* a place, person, business, or organization to which I would *ever* entrust the well-being of my own children. That it pretends to do whatever it does in the name of God is, well, clearly *beyond* obscene, as far as I'm concerned. The sooner every trace of it's eliminated from the streets of our fair city, the better. It might be well worth noting the fact that in 2005, Colorado-based Young Life ministry purchased 480 acres of land (upon which the compound called Rajneeshpuram had been situated from 1981-85) from the Oregon State Land Board. (The Rajneeshi cult, which built Rajneeshpuram, is known to have carried out the largest bioweapons terrorist attack in the US on September 24, 1984, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to sway rural Wasco County's umcoming November election. More than 751 people were poisoned by a specific strain of Salmonella which had been cultivated in a laboratory within Rajneeshpuram.)
Oct 10th, 2017