On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:36:55 -0400, aemeijers wrote:

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On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:45:50 -0700 (PDT), Bob Villa
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On Aug 28, 1:10 pm, "
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:07:51 -0700 (PDT), Roy wrote:
On Aug 28, 12:01 pm, "
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:23:38 -0400, "h" wrote:
"aemeijers" wrote in message news:-
(Side note- one of the many reasons I am not a big fan of home-schooling.
Although few parents in general are qualified to teach their kids past
second grade or so, the home-school population skews pretty heavily toward
the highly religious crowd. I have trouble believing those kids are
getting anything resembling a complete science education.)
Oh yeah. It used to be (NY) that you had to have at least one masters to
home-school your kids. Now you don't even have to be a High School grad!
They published a home-school survey of our county last year, and 95% of the
families said they were fundamentalist Xtians, and had more than 3 (!) kids
being "schooled" at home. So...uneducated, delusional morons raising a whole
batch of uneducated, delusional morons. Fantastic.
And yet the kids of these "uneducated, delusional morons" consistently learn
more than the kids taught by the over-educated morons in public schools.
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Yes, they consistently learn more narrow-minded bull**** about the
Earth being 60,000 years old and that mankind hung out with dinosaurs.
Ignorant parents teaching ignorant kids...the results are
predictable...more Jerry Falwell type clones. Yekkkkk.
Speaking of predictable, you Christian haters are the epitome.
These types are delusional people haters. Not just Christians
haters. They are missing something in life and want to blame someone.
It's very juvenile to look down on people and call them stupid. You
can at least raise yourself to the level of Carl Sagan or the like.

Hate is a destructive emotion. It's easy to see why they're life's losers.

Not a matter of hate, and put away the broad brush.

It *is* a matter of hate. Just read what these people say here.

Religion is for
people who can't stand reality. An adult who knowingly chooses that
path, well, they had their chance. But to subject a kid to a biased
education free from significant aspects of modern science, well, that is
doing the kid no favors.

Strawman.

Hopefully the kid will be bright enough to pick
it up on their own, or actually read all the books on the state-mandated
curriculum many states now have, in spite of their parental unit saying
it is wrong. I don't hate bible-thumpers- I feel sorry for them.

....as they do for you.

They
miss so much, looking at life trough a narrow prism. You can be kind to
others and all that stuff without needing a mythology to justify it or
require it. Pragmatism suffices- 'play nice with others' is less work
than other ways of going through life. Or for the cynical, enlightened
self interest- you help somebody out when they are in a bind, maybe next
time you are between a rock and a hard place, they will remember and
help you out, or at least not go out of their way to harm you. (That
last sentence is why I am in favor of foreign aid oriented toward
self-help- seed and gardening tools and rural clinics and schools and
such, versus piles of money handed to the usually-corrupt PTB in
whatever backwater country. )

It could just as easily be argued that you're toe one looking at life through
a narrow prism, a bigoted narrow prism.