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and I still have family that asks why I don't go to church!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,274 posts)Loki the trickster?
Volaris
(10,274 posts)He IS the brother of White Jesus...
kentuck
(111,110 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)God put Trump in office because He wants to destroy America
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)tracked at about 20% at the university, but now it's probably even greater than 25% IMO.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Humans sure like to warp the idea of being Christ-like.
no_hypocrisy
(46,229 posts)wants Trump to be President past January, 2021?
safeinOhio
(32,729 posts)Revival.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)"God's work" and not at all subject to "worldly laws".
ANYTHING.
Think about that.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) is a fundamentalist curriculum founded in Texas in 1970. It started as a program for private Christian day schools, but it has been hugely successful among conservative home schoolers. Today, ACE claims it is used in 6,000 schools and thousands of home educators in over 140 countries. Its also used in government-funded voucher programs in several US states.
ACE has always taken its fundamentalism very seriously. In his 1979 book Rebirth of Our Nation ACEs founder Donald Howard wrote, Fundamentalism is intellectually sound. It has always prevailed in periods of great intellectual enlightenment. It is the only sound an logical solution to the existence of the universe I am a fundamentalist. If I can be any more fundamental than fundamental, that is what I want to be. Today, ACE views imparting these fundamental beliefs into children as its primary purpose.
Howard later wrote We do not build Christian schools primarily to give a child the best education nor to teach him how to make a good living. Teaching him how to live and to love and serve God are our primary tasks.
He wasnt kidding.
I went to an ACE school for almost four years. By the time I left, I was certain that it was against God's will for governments to provide healthcare, evolution was a conspiracy to destroy Christianity, parents were morally required to spank their children, and science could prove that homosexuality was wrong. But worst of all was the feeling uneducated; I still struggle with self-conscious fears about gaps in my learning. ACE workbooks consist of simplistic fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice questions. And these questions are often hilariously, spectacularly bad.
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Initech
(100,107 posts)If so we're fucked! Nice knowing you humanity!
VOX
(22,976 posts)That kind of magical thinking has been used to justify some of history's truly horrible crimes against humanity.
TheBlackAdder
(28,225 posts)ConnorMarc
(653 posts)On figuring out the truth behind these self-proclaimed Christians.
Girard442
(6,086 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)God appoints ALL leaders, including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, that Christians are bound to obey.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)moondust
(20,014 posts)dembotoz
(16,852 posts)if one of them said Blessed by the Porn Star Bangers i am sure i would have noticed
teamster633
(2,029 posts)Seems that the Founding Fathers, who they claim to revere, might have a problem with that.