What I learned in a Fundie Junior High

[Taverner]

Hmmmm lemme see if I can remember everything

1 - The bible is the literal word of God. Even when he refers to himself in the 3rd person.
2 - Evolution can't be proved, but Scientists have already proved that God exists.
3 - Genesis is a much better Science textbook than anything out there on the market
4 - If you are unfarily accused, defending yourself is "back talk" and deserves more punishment
5 - Hitting kids, especially small ones, is good for their character
6 - Pants on a girl is obscene. Somehow skirts that can be looked up with well placed mirrors on shoes isn't.
7 - Athiests are demon posessed.
8 - There is no such thing as mental illness - just demon posession
9 - Jesus is two steps behind your every hour of every day, watching everything you do.
10 - This means he loves you
11 - No not in THAT way!
12 - The way a parent should show their kid love is by beating them mercilessly
13 - Reagan was a God-Fearing Christian Saint who should be on Mount Rushmore
14 - Carter (this was the 80's) was a liar, an athiest and a communist
15 - Rock music has its roots in devil worship
16 - Christian Rock is OK, as long as you don't dance to it
17 - Catholics are going to hell, but that's no reason we can't use them for political gains
18 - Mormons, same story
19 - Everything happens for a reason. When you suffer, it's either God testing you or punishment for sin. If good things happen to you, it's either a test or a reward.
20 - Heaven is made up of people singing Halelujah all day long. And how great God is. Doesn't that sound FUN????

[Der Blaue Engel]

1. Wow! I had no idea we'd gone to the same jr. high!

Except for the part about pants. They let us have those.

[Taverner]

2. Really? You were lucky I guess

Funny how some of the biggest athiests I know were schooled in fundie schools. Also the hardest parties - as well as the most brainless sheep :)

Here's to recovery! :toast:

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. I'll drink to that

:toast:

[Taverner]

6. I still have nightmares of Fundie Hell

They got me started on those nightmares when I was 6

Richard Dawkins said that exposing young Children to religion is a form of child abuse. I tend to agree.

[Der Blaue Engel]

8. It is child abuse, I agree

Having been subjected to "A Thief in the Night" when I was 7, and a film of "partial-birth abortions" when I was 13, I have a lot of PTSD.

[Taverner]

10. My favorite was a tract called "My Heart Christ's Home"

In it, a nosy Jesus goes around brainwashing the author's mind so that it's clean like a good Christian's should be.

If I were to show my kids Hostel, other parents would criticize me non stop.

But If I read the story of the resurrection, I'd be a "Good Christian Parent"

Jeez :eyes:

[jakefrep]

3. 21. God was kicked out of the public schools

22. The ACLU is out to get Christians

[Taverner]

4. OH YEAH FORGOT THOSE!!!

God was kicked out of the US Government too!

Even though the pledge says "under God" and our currency has "In God We Trust" they are just paying lip service.

We also had a Christian Pledge of Allegiance to the Christian Flag

Scary shit man!

ON edit: almost forgot, women are to SERVE their husbands. They are to be subservient in all ways.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. What you didn't learn in Fundie Junior High...

How to spell atheist. :P

[SoyCat]

9. Atheist here...I'll never forget the 12 weeks I spent in a fundie school. *It was Hell*

[Taverner]

11. Why did you have to do it?

I feel for ya man.

My journey to reason has been a long one.

I've slowly evolved from Fundie to Totally Reason based. I wouldn't say Athiest, because I don't rule out a prime mover - but I know the Bible is TOTAL BS.

Funny story - I can say I was "saved" from fundamentalism by Van Halen and Black Sabbath. They had a "exposing the satanic side of rock" sermon and they played all these great tunes by The Eagles and Led Zeppelin, and instead of making me fear for my soul, I went out and bought all the albums they played!

[SoyCat]

20. A public school teacher told a blatant lie about me and the principal sided with her. That was to

be expected because he was having an affair with her! Anyway, it was too late in the year for any *good* private schools to accept any new students. I wasn't kicked out; it was a totally different kind of situation. The rest is history.

I've always detested religion and that made my time in Fundie hell even more exasperating. I did have fun shaking things up a bit while I was there. They probably still remember me...

[evlbstrd]

12. Heaven

Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens.

David Byrne had it right.

[Taverner]

15. Love that song

[evlbstrd]

16. Me too.

[ceile]

13. Sounds familiar.

But it was my dad's military style church instead. My parents had joint custody, so every other Sunday I was subjected to "Carter is evil for not letting me go to the Olympics in Russia" (my SS teacher ran track) and "Catholics are going to hell because they don't pray directly to God. Instead they go through Mary-a WOMAN!". I was baptized Catholic. Ah, good times, good times....

[Taverner]

14. Rough...

I remember lots of military and cops kids (my dad was a cop) at the school.

Freethinking was discouraged, to say the least.

[conscious evolution]

17. What I learned in a fundie school in 7th grade

Never,ever do a report on evolution for science class.
The teacher loved and gave me an A+.I think he had been forbidden from teaching it.
The other students were another thing entirely.They went apeshit crazy on me.They would start fights that I would finish.Do you think they ever got in trouble?No.I was the one who caught shit for fighting from the school.
FUCK ALL FUNDIES!!

[jberryhill]

18. Martin Luther King

was "a communist and a womanizer".

[Arugula Latte]

19. I think we should classify all fundies as mentally ill.

You'd have to have a serious brain imbalance to buy into this magical thinking.

[Sequoia]

21. Sex before marriage is a sin.

[NewWaveChick1981]

22. Makes me glad I went to public schools...

:rofl: :hi: That sounds like hell on earth.... :yoiks: