A Rowdy Rant Against Homeschooling
Just when you thought you'd heard the last word in hysterical, mean-spirited, and chowder-headed arguments against homeschooling, the Religious Left outdoes itself again.
We ought to give out an award for this sort of thing. And no one would deserve it more than Dr. Jim West, Th. D., for his performance last month on his blog (http://petrosbaptistchurch.blogspot.com).
His May 2 posting, "An Exodus From Public Schools Isn't Holiness, It's Paganism," takes the cake for intemperate language.
People who homeschool, says Dr. West, are "foolhardy and uninformed... frenzied, uninformed, twaddling and prattling mobs of unwashed peasants." If they really feel so strongly about homeschooling, West says, they ought to pass up college and "teach their children at home to be doctors and lawyers and theologians and preachers and, of course, housewives."
West was at it again on May 9, in "The Hypocrisy of Al Mohler," going even farther: "...if homeschoolers really are genuinely concerned that the world will influence their children wrongly, they [should] pull them out of the world completely and isolate them thoroughly, in a cult like [sic] environment, where no outsider is allowed and no one ever travels outside the cult compound... Except, of course for the child molesters, rapists, abusers, and other criminals who will inhabit the compound along with them."
What would make a doctor of theology write like this? Obsessive, repetitive viewings of Night Shylaman's The Village? Improper nutrition? If he were speaking like this behind the wheel of a car, we'd call it road rage. A comment he makes in his "Exodus" essay offers a clue:
"The only people who pull their kids from public schools out of fear are the same sort who haven't ever read the bible in Greek or Hebrew... the sort of people who get all their information second hand."
Damn that Tyndale! We knew this would happen, if you translated the Bible into English and made it available to the riffraff.
Doc, Doc, get a grip. You're 500 years behind the times. You're not really against translations of the Bible, are you? Or is it just your elitist slip showing?
Does he really think that if only we could read the Bible in Greek and Hebrew, we would instantly see that God wants us to educate our kids in aggressively secular government schools, promote and celebrate sodomy, cheerfully acquiesce to confiscatory taxes for the purpose of bloating the state into a socialist behemoth, and worship "goddess Sophia"? I don't care if he can read the Bible in Akkadian cuneiform: he won't find anything in it to justify his wacko worldview.
Meanwhile, you unwashed, compound-dwelling, non-Greek-speaking, homeschooling peasants, don't let Dr. West's rant offend you. He and his kind would not be using such wild language if they weren't unhinged by the prospect of their imminent defeat. He has abused you because he knows, in his heart of hearts, that the homeschooling movement is growing all the time and there's absolutely nothing he can do about it.
But we do wonder where he's getting his information about homeschooling families.
We ought to give out an award for this sort of thing. And no one would deserve it more than Dr. Jim West, Th. D., for his performance last month on his blog (http://petrosbaptistchurch.blogspot.com).
His May 2 posting, "An Exodus From Public Schools Isn't Holiness, It's Paganism," takes the cake for intemperate language.
People who homeschool, says Dr. West, are "foolhardy and uninformed... frenzied, uninformed, twaddling and prattling mobs of unwashed peasants." If they really feel so strongly about homeschooling, West says, they ought to pass up college and "teach their children at home to be doctors and lawyers and theologians and preachers and, of course, housewives."
West was at it again on May 9, in "The Hypocrisy of Al Mohler," going even farther: "...if homeschoolers really are genuinely concerned that the world will influence their children wrongly, they [should] pull them out of the world completely and isolate them thoroughly, in a cult like [sic] environment, where no outsider is allowed and no one ever travels outside the cult compound... Except, of course for the child molesters, rapists, abusers, and other criminals who will inhabit the compound along with them."
What would make a doctor of theology write like this? Obsessive, repetitive viewings of Night Shylaman's The Village? Improper nutrition? If he were speaking like this behind the wheel of a car, we'd call it road rage. A comment he makes in his "Exodus" essay offers a clue:
"The only people who pull their kids from public schools out of fear are the same sort who haven't ever read the bible in Greek or Hebrew... the sort of people who get all their information second hand."
Damn that Tyndale! We knew this would happen, if you translated the Bible into English and made it available to the riffraff.
Doc, Doc, get a grip. You're 500 years behind the times. You're not really against translations of the Bible, are you? Or is it just your elitist slip showing?
Does he really think that if only we could read the Bible in Greek and Hebrew, we would instantly see that God wants us to educate our kids in aggressively secular government schools, promote and celebrate sodomy, cheerfully acquiesce to confiscatory taxes for the purpose of bloating the state into a socialist behemoth, and worship "goddess Sophia"? I don't care if he can read the Bible in Akkadian cuneiform: he won't find anything in it to justify his wacko worldview.
Meanwhile, you unwashed, compound-dwelling, non-Greek-speaking, homeschooling peasants, don't let Dr. West's rant offend you. He and his kind would not be using such wild language if they weren't unhinged by the prospect of their imminent defeat. He has abused you because he knows, in his heart of hearts, that the homeschooling movement is growing all the time and there's absolutely nothing he can do about it.
But we do wonder where he's getting his information about homeschooling families.
