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Piltdown
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Posted - 03/14/2002 :  17:14:42  Show Profile  Send Piltdown an AOL message  Send Piltdown a Yahoo! Message Send Piltdown a Private Message
This month's issue of the North Texas Skeptic http://www.ntskeptics.org/2002/2002march/march2002.htm#madrasa has a rather frightening article by John Blanton about a fundamentalist school in Dallas. To these folks, evolution is the root of all evil, and
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Alcoholics Anonymous: It has New Age roots.
Andrew Weil: OK by me.
Mormons: Not a Christian religion. There are pagan rituals inside the temples.
Feng shui: Who would have thought it?
Star Wars (the movie): It was created to teach religion.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hint, think of the lotus position.
Disney's Lion King: Astrology
Disney's Pocahontas: She gets wisdom from a tree.
Disney's (again) Aladdin: It has genies killing people.
Harry Potter: Casts spells and is a religious book (but wait until I tell you what they did in the Christian Bible Church later on that very same morning).
And finally Pokemon: Check out the lightning tail on that dude.

The frightening part is that a fair number of otherwise ordinary middle-class young people receive their entire education at this institution. The associated church is not named, but there is a picture.
It just happens that I went to this very place a few years ago to watch some traveling "prophets" in action. They were doing some rather low-grade cold-reading, far too amateurish for carnival midway quacks or even Miss Cleo.


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Lars_H
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Posted - 03/14/2002 :  17:36:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Lars_H a Private Message
Well we have all seen what type of people are turned out by these types of schools. There must be some important difference between 'evil' fanatic moslems and fundamental christians. I can't see it.



The list you quoted on the other hand does not appear all that offensive to me.

Disney is obviously evil. Feng shui is stupid. The AA have a bit to much religion in their programm for my taste.

There are a few nonsequiturs in his reasoning. There is a gap between showing things are diffrent and having proven that they are evil. But you can't fault him for not liking Pokemon.
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Piltdown
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Posted - 03/14/2002 :  17:51:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Piltdown an AOL message  Send Piltdown a Yahoo! Message Send Piltdown a Private Message
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Well we have all seen what type of people are turned out by these types of schools. There must be some important difference between 'evil' fanatic moslems and fundamental christians. I can't see it.

Better cars



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The list you quoted on the other hand does not appear all that offensive to me.

But Lars, in this country people like this have guns.

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But you can't fault him for not liking Pokemon.
True enough

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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 03/15/2002 :  06:16:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
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The list you quoted on the other hand does not appear all that offensive to me.

But Lars, in this country people like this have guns.
True enough

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Usually, fully automatic assault weapons.
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