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Originally Posted by kerry
For a window into what happens to these fundamentalist home schooled children, watch the documentary 'Jesus Camp'
I agree that such overwhelming indoctrination in early childhood is very hard to overcome at the college level. I don't think the issue is strictly evolution/creation. That conflict is just one small part of a much more basic conflict between a literal reading of the Bible or Qur'an and the rest of modern knowledge. The extreme patriarchy of these fundamentalist movements is an equal danger to their medieval science.
My experience has been that homeschooled children are extremely well disciplined students. They will excel where hard work and memorization are the foundations of a discipline such as Mathematics and sciences like Chemistry where the ideological tension between the discipline and fundamentalist religion are minimal. For the most part they are horrific philosophy students and my guess is that the same judgment would apply in sociology. I have seen this repeated in both Christianity and Islam. The potential result is a highly technological but repressive and controlled society. That vision does not seem far fetched to me.
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Jesus Camp was scary, I watched it a few days ago. I remember during one part when that fat preacher lady was talking to the kids I was thinking that it wouldn't take much of a lead in to say here are some AK47's and hand gernades kids, lets go kill some Jews/gays/muslims.
Doctrine wise these people are the same as the terrorists were fighting, they just have an outlet for their frustrations in our system so they don't have to resort to bombs.