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womeninthegap - I'm aware of the reasons why some people homeschool

We even have some homeschoolers in the family. Their reason is simply geography, they live in the boonies where there is no school bus service.

posted by gomedome on February 14, 2009 at 12:43 PM | link to this | reply

benzinha - isn't that typical though

Political and religious agendas converge to re-write history. I had the opportunity to speak with one of the Canadian soldiers who liberated Bergen-Belsen at a presentation on the subject of the holocaust. What was shown in black and white photographs and discussed, could not possibly be fabricated. The only issue of the holocaust in question is the number of 6 million, which is in reality an educated guess but why would the number even matter?

posted by gomedome on February 14, 2009 at 12:39 PM | link to this | reply

The unwillingness to consider...

any viewpoint other than a fundamental, literal, evangelical interpretation of the Bible is inherent in the term Fundamentalist, and I couldn't agree with you more that this kind of pervasive brainwashing is extremely dangerous to society.

However, I need to caution against the belief that everyone who removes their child from public school does so for religious reasons. This is also a dangerously pervasive belief (see my posts at Homeschoolers Journey). There is a rapidly growing, and largely unrecognized, secular homeschooling movement in the US. We even got our own magazine in late 2007---Secular Homeschooling Magazine!

posted by womeninthegap on February 14, 2009 at 6:28 AM | link to this | reply

Like the "myth " of the gas chambers and final solution and Holocaust.

Many more proponents of this everyday and growing more in the madrassas of Iran as we speak.

posted by benzinha on February 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM | link to this | reply

ZenMom - it has been my experience around here that you can only club

people who's heads are filled with marshmellows over the noggin so many times.

There has already been a comical post put up by one such person who simply has no idea what the scientific theory of evolution entails but chooses to argue against it anyways. There may be more to come, many of these people won't come around here because they might get clobbered with a few facts. Truth and facts but especially reality act much like garlic does towards vampires with some of these fundies. Their arguments against evolution from positions of nearly total ignorance on the subject only work with other fundies.

posted by gomedome on February 12, 2009 at 7:44 PM | link to this | reply

gd - I don't think you'll get many takers re: your "challenge", especially here on blogit.

I am still surprised at just how many hard core believers there are here (and in our country). But, I'll keep checking back, hoping that you get a nibble.

posted by ZenMom on February 12, 2009 at 9:17 AM | link to this | reply

Re: people believe what they want to believe

Xeno-x - that has always been true of humans but now we are seeing a unique brand of accomplished denial. Especially from young earth proponents who have absolutely nothing other than ancient man's perception to base their beliefs on in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.