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When I decided to homeschool my six year old son, I told him we were going to do "Dinosaur Week". Which turned into "Dinosaur Month". . . at the least! We watched "Walking With Dinosaurs" and a lot of other documentaries. He's a pretty smart kid, too, so even he ended up saying "Ok. Scientists say that God isn't real. They say earth is a kajillion years old. They say that people and dinosaurs weren't alive at the same time and that a lot of dinosaurs could have died from a big flood, but that The Flood didn't happen. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!". He gets really upset about people not believing in God - as in he doesn't want them going to hell and he can't believe people can ignore God all around us. Every time we watch one of those dinosaur things, he gives a big, overly-dramatic sigh whenever they start talking about "millions of years" or evolution.

One that really cracked him up was where they theorize about reptiles evolving into humanoid creatures. Good grief! And they teach most of this stuff as FACT in schools!!!! I can't believe it. Neither can a six year old. So WHY is it so accepted?!!?

I teach him what makes SENSE. NOT what science textbooks say. I also teach my kids to question what they are taught - especially what they learn in school. It's really not fun at all having a bunch of junior scientists in the house when 99% of science seems to be atheistic.

HisPrincess, RR 173 Comments [7/27/2010 7:32:39 AM]
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#1185980
Beccs

You're either lying or your kid is thoroughly brainwashed and utterly stupid, like his mother.

7/27/2010 6:10:15 PM
#1185987
Nowonmai

Had dinosaurs not been wiped out from asteroid/meteor strike, they could have evolved into bipedal creatures. It's called speculative science, what MIGHT have happened had mammals not been given their chance.

You don't teach your child 'sense'. You teach him fairy tales, and I am quite sure when he was watching Walking With Dinos, you were sitting right there filling his ears with your fundie bullshit.

7/27/2010 6:27:25 PM
#1185988
The Lazy One

Well no shit your kid gets upset when he finds out people don't believe in god! You're the one who's telling him anyone who doesn't belong to your exact faction is going to hell! That tends to traumatize kids, numbnuts!

7/27/2010 6:29:41 PM
#1185997
Reckoner

The princess is so full of shit that her eyes are brown.

7/27/2010 6:43:42 PM
#1185998
Amadaun

Theatrically sighing is never done out of genuine feeling. It is done for show. He does this so you will love him.

Ergo, you have proved emotional blackmail works on kids. Which we knew.

7/27/2010 6:51:16 PM
#1186006
Gyeong Hwa Pak

"It's really not fun at all having a bunch of junior scientists in the house when 99% of science seems to be atheistic."

Science and reality tends to be biased like that.

7/27/2010 7:36:33 PM
#1186010
Ocean

"I decided to homeschool... I also teach my kids to question what they are taught"

Fantastic! My parents took the same approach, and I did indeed question what I was taught... Now I'm an atheist. Whoopsie. :)

7/27/2010 7:56:37 PM
#1186014
Panz

Amazing how "smart" in your world is equal to "Remedial" in the real world

7/27/2010 8:07:53 PM
#1186021
parable

despite being rather, well, drunk...
I am upset because I've met people like this, and I just want to drink even more.
And shit, man, th--
I just can't try to refute this.
I'm just too damn tired.

7/27/2010 10:20:46 PM
#1186022
Meeeeee!

Isn't it a little coincidental that both she and her six year old son share the same religious beliefs and agree on a lot of things?

7/27/2010 10:46:02 PM
#1186023
Nicholae Carpathia

Is kajillion an actual number? I believe not.

Since I'm already helpless to meaningfully conceptualize a million except in relation to other numbers, I understand your credulity problem, although your choice of hard-to-believe things to choke on is rich.

You're still wrong. Very wrong.

7/27/2010 11:09:01 PM
#1186024
Tolpuddle Martyr

I doubt your kid is articulate enough to form a statement that long, not if you homeskulled him. Also "HisPrincess"? Methinks your fantasy "personal relationship with Jesus" is, er...less than Platonic.

7/27/2010 11:09:17 PM
#1186028
Melch

"Is kajillion an actual number? I believe not."

It is 100 bajillion. You would have known this if you were homeschooled.

7/27/2010 11:18:45 PM
#1186036
Justanotheratheist

Another young mind completely fucked by the poison of religion.

Dear heart, the reason this stuff is taught as "FACT in schools!!!!" is, um, because it IS fact. The scary thing is that idiots like HisPrincess take the bible's ridiculous and easily discounted nonsense to be fact as well. And pass it on from generation to generation, ad infinitum.

So, if science books don't agree with your view of the world, just pretend they don't make SENSE and completely ignore what they teach us. Every fucking thing that the bible has to say about "creation", global floods, the age of the planet etc etc is manifestly false and based on the pitiful knowkledge possessed by iron age goat herds who didn't know there was a world beyond what could loosely be termed the eastern Mediterranean.

But this hogwash makes more sense than what generations of scientists have deduced over the centuries from a careful study of the increasingly available mountains of evidence.

Yeah, right.

Maybe homeschooling should be illegal, for the sake of the children.

7/28/2010 12:28:30 AM
#1186039
Booty

What bothers me (as well as all the other stuff people have mentioned) is that she is teaching her child from "A lot of documentaries" - What? Surely books should be involved at some level, not just sitting your kid in front of the goggle box?
Grrrrr.

7/28/2010 12:49:34 AM
#1186040
AXavierB

I also teach my kids to question what they are taught - especially what they learn in school.

But no questioning the Bible, right? I mean that'd just be silly.

7/28/2010 12:53:21 AM
#1186043
WWWWolf

> One that really cracked him up was where they theorize about reptiles evolving into humanoid creatures. Good grief! And they teach most of this stuff as FACT in schools!!!! I can't believe it. Neither can a six year old. So WHY is it so accepted?!!?

That's probably referring to the "dinosauroid", which is a plausible hypothesis, but not without its flaws. Note: hypothesis, not "fact". Kind of hard to test in practice now, but basically testable. Could have existed, but didn't. Calling them fact would have been ridiculous, but suggesting they might have existed isn't nowhere near as ridiculous.

7/28/2010 1:11:57 AM
#1186046
Grey Seer

Actually, I kinda hold out hope for this kid. If the mother is teaching him to "question what he is taught", then eventually I would like to think he will start questioning what his mother taught him.

After all, many of us were religious as children, before we started applying considered reasoning to the whole concept. I can only hope this kid goes the same way.

7/28/2010 1:24:32 AM
#1186060
Orion

"I can't believe it. Neither can a six year old. So WHY is it so accepted?!!?"

Because despite the famed clarity of young children they really are only young and haven't had enough time or opportunity to learn all the very real evidence, few people ever do. But the rest of us go "oh hey, all these people whose life's work has been figuring this out and are pretty smart say this, maybe we should listen"

7/28/2010 2:04:13 AM
#1186070
Mr Blur

"I also teach my kids to question what they are taught"


7/28/2010 2:49:04 AM
#1186072
Prof. Bill Hill

I must congratulate you on the abuse of your own brain. Er, you have got one, haven't you? I'd hate to think that you are wasting all that effort. Pity you're already in a cult, you sound ignorant and stupid enough for our cult, although, your tendency to brag and mouth-off does go against you a little bit.

And your boy? Unhappily, he might go normal one day quite soon, but it won't be for the lack of trying on your part. In fairness, you are doing a very good job of turning him into a useless piece of walking religio-meat. Well done!

I sometimes think that if all these atheists and evolutionists would just calm down and and spend five quiet minutes having a contemplative drool, or even a good old heart-to-heart with the ceiling, then they might think differently about us deranged cretins. Still, keep steadfastly to your chosen path. You're heading for amazing failure and disappointment. Drool on sister.

PS. Don't forget that excellent chapter in the old testament for when you come to teach your boy about how aircraft fly. There's another good one too, in the new testament, complete with wiring diagrams, for when you teach him about electricty and ... er ...modernity.


7/28/2010 2:54:41 AM
#1186078
A. Theist

Good job on homeschooling your six year old son. I hope he's enjoying his lessons and that's he's doing well. He's got some great fun to look forward to and some exciting lessons ahead. Ah! How fondly I look back at all those happy schooldays of my youth. Oops! I'm letting myself get sidetracked. Now, where was I? Oh yes! Excitement! Squee! Squirm! Really, I bet that both of you just can't wait for the bell to herald the beginning of a brand new term. And the start of, TA DA DAA! Flying Lessons! Oh! Happy days! How I envy you.

7/28/2010 3:09:57 AM
#1186079
clockworkgirl21

Don't give up on him, guys. I was like that when I was little.

7/28/2010 3:27:17 AM
#1186080
mborok

Re: "reptiles evolving into humanoid creatures". This is probably one of those fanciful "what if" scenarios, imagining what would have happened if dinosaurs hadn't died out and had evolved to fill the niche currently occupied by humans, i.e. a human evolved from dinos instead of apes. It's a fun thought experiment that has no scientific value. All these documentaries are more concerned with entertainment than education.

7/28/2010 3:58:23 AM
#1186082
Gah

You know what makes me really sad about this post? I used to be that kid. I always wanted to be a scientist, but I was determined that I was going to be the first scientist to 'disprove evolution'. My parents were so proud of me. I think I was seven years old. I had no idea what evolution even was, apart from the bullshit I was fed at church and Christian school. Like this kid, I also used to get upset about people not believing in God, because I too hated the idea of people I knew ending up in hell. Children shouldn't spend their innocent years worrying about terrifying notions like this.

And then I grew up. I realised that none of this idiotic crap was true, nor did it make the slightest bit of sense. I actually learned what evolution was (never lost that interest in science) and realised that it's completely amazing and mind-bogglingly brilliant. And MAKES SENSE. Unlike the book of Genesis and its assorted drivel.

So yeah. I feel for this kid. I know where he's coming from, and it's called brainwashing from an early age. He knows nothing else. He's never been taught anything else. But one day, hopefully, he will actually start questioning the world and learn some things outside of what his church and fundie parents have to say.

There is hope... I'm living proof of it.

7/28/2010 4:21:51 AM
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