NihilCredo comments on Rationality quotes: October 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Apprentice 06 October 2010 10:13:16AM 23 points [-]

We live in a world where it has become "politically correct" to avoid absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the same honor, and all gods regarded as equally true and equally fictitious. But take these same people, who want fuzzy, all-inclusive thinking in spiritual matters, and put them on an airplane. You will find they insist on a very dogmatic, intolerant pilot who will stay on the "straight and narrow" glidepath so their life will not come to a violent end short of the runway. They want no fuzzy thinking here!

-- Jack T. Chick

Comment author: wedrifid 06 October 2010 10:27:10AM 1 point [-]

Jack T. Chick

That guy would've gone through hell in high school unless he was really good at sport. :P

Comment author: NihilCredo 07 October 2010 02:52:19AM 1 point [-]

Wouldn't surprise me if he'd been home-schooled.

Comment author: DilGreen 09 October 2010 10:14:44PM 4 points [-]

from a European perspective, and simultaneously from the perspective of one who sees most state-sanctioned educational approaches as almost comically counter-productive, the idea that appears common in the US, that home schooled = fundamentalist christian parents is confusing. Many home educators in europe are specifically atheist.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 October 2010 10:53:03PM 3 points [-]

As far as I can tell, "home schooled = fundamentalist" is American left-wing nonsense.

In fact, while many home-schoolers are fundamentalist, there are a slew of motivations. Some home schoolers think that conventional schooling is a bad environment for learning. Some have children with special needs. Some live in isolated areas. Some are religious, but not pathologically so.

Comment author: NihilCredo 10 October 2010 12:02:31PM *  0 points [-]

Depends on which parts of Europe, I guess. I am told that homeschooling is relatively common in the British Isles, but in the countries I am familiar with (Italy, Sweden, to a lesser degree Germany and Belgium) it ranges from unheard-of to extremely unusual.