No peer reviews. No peers.

4/03/2008 | 7:55 PM | Evolved Rationalist


The title of this post would have been the perfect fundie slogan if the situation weren't so tragic. Check out this fundie group called 'Bold Christian Living', where child abuse conveniently masquerades as religion:
One father who has just begun homeschooling his daughter wrote me this week with an interesting concern.He wrote:We noticed that she doesn't like to play with the other kids as much now and prefers to play alone. Any idea what could be happening?

That's GREAT! I often hear from new homeschoolers that their children are preferring to play with the parents, siblings, and alone, soon after beginning homeschooling. In my opinion, that's part of the goal. Congratulations! She was becoming addicted to interaction with her peers, who were, perhaps unintentionally, stealing her heart from you. She had already started down the road to becoming peer-dependent. But now, she is preferring being with you, being with her little brother, and being alone. I think that's really healthy.

Many people worry that this will make children unable to relate to others. In fact, it makes them less intimidated by others' acceptance/rejection of them. She will be less likely to be pressured into conformity with the world (Rom. 12:1-2). And as you spend time with her, her emotional focus is turning to you. God is "turning the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to their children" (Mal. 4:6). Ultimately this will make it easier for Grace to give her heart to you (Prov. 23:26) in preparation for fully yielding and trusting her heart to the Lord.
Tell me again, why do appeasers think we should not be criticizing religious nonsense? Why do people object when it is pointed out that religious indoctrination is tantamount to child abuse?

That scumbag of a sicko thinks it is all fine and dandy to mentally abuse and isolate a child for the sake of an old book of myths and lies. If the situation above is not a case of a parent emotionally and psychologically abusing a child, I don't know what is. The best thing that the above theistard could do for the sake of his child is to remove himself from the gene pool so that he does not destroy another human brain.

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9 Comments

  1. Efrique |

    ... Last month, I said something snarky on peer review myself:
    http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2008/03/random-thought.html

     
  2. Cetacea |

    Creationists are masters of completely missing the point of the argument. If they acknowledged that they knew what it was, they'd have to refute it... and they can't because their beliefs are so fucking dumb.

     
  3. John Murphy |

    Shalanonymous: If you actually...you know...knew some homeschoolers your opinion might be worth something, but since you obviously don't, you are only speaking through ignorance. How scientific is that?

    By these same standards I could take the following atheist posts from the web to "demonstrate" how "unscientific" and "stupid" atheists are.

    "We've only said a gozillion times that since God won't appear as George Burns and do a soft-shoe for us, then that proves God doesn't exist."

    [Wow...he's convinced me with that incredibly stimulating intellectual argument]

    "Atheists have a built-in set of superior morals, right from birth. And since we don't believe in God, those morals came from evolution, and that proves God doesn't exist."

    [This guy is a candidate for the "Stupidest-Circular-Logic-Ever" award]

     
  4. Cetacea |

    "If you actually...you know...knew some homeschoolers your opinion might be worth something, but since you obviously don't, you are only speaking through ignorance. How scientific is that?"

    Since you probably don't... you know... know the Evolved Rationalist personally you probably don't know wheter or not she doesn't know any homeschoolers.

    But instead of asking her for anecdotal evidence that homeschoolers are introverts (as that would be anecdotal... not scientific) why don't you provide scientific evidence that homeschooling is that much better.

     
  5. Evolved Rationalist |

    Wow. Epic fail.

    Where did I (not 'Shalanonymous') say that all homeschoolers are delusional or abusing their children? I was merely referring to the case in question. Try to keep up, will you?

     
  6. Josh |

    Holy Fuck, that's amazing.

     
  7. The Watcher |

    I won't speak to homeschooling in general because I don't know. I will, however, state, as a former teacher myself, that the behavior exhibited by that girl is frightening.

    Further, the advice given ("That's great!") is even more disturbing because it's coming from an adult who should know better. Raising children is not like building robots. You're not creating a program that will do exactly what you want and expect it to do, you're creating a human life. And if that human wants to have friends who disagree with you, and she wants to live a life other than one you've tried to create for her, well, that's just too damn bad.

    If you want to warp a child's mind, and keep them in a cocoon, you shouldn't have children. What a sick bunch of people.

     
  8. Thammuz |

    I completely agree with The Watcher.

    But since religious people have always been "teaching" to their kids from childhood i frankly saw it coming...
    It's a good thing that here in italy homeschooling is so strictly regulated and so expensive that nobody uses it... Regular schools are just as good, cheaper and well regulated and, if you are homeschooled, you have to pass a standardized test at the end of every schoolyear which ensures that what you have been thaught is not bollocks.

     
  9. mycroftholmes |

    My friend, every case of a child raised in a religious household is a case of abuse; homescholler only compounds the evil.

     

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