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Date Posted: 14:27:44 06/11/08 Wed
Author: DZR
Author Host/IP: 82.6.99.15
Subject: Ha! That looks awesome
In reply to: Gabs 's message, "This looks sort of fun" on 13:43:15 06/11/08 Wed

We really need more of this stuff. A lot more. The crazies are slowly taking over.

A couple of weeks ago there was a documentary on UK TV about the rise of fundamentalist Christians in the UK. Apparently there are 45 "faith schools" (semi-independent schools with partial state funding) teaching a curriculum imported from America which is OFSTED approved in which they are taught that the Earth and the Moon are between 6000 and 10000 years old. They showed a "science" exam paper for, I think, 8 year olds in which one of the questions was "How many days did it take God to create the Earth?" I was so angry by the end of it I barely knew what to do with myself. I know this stuff has been plaguing America for a while now, but it is a fairly recent thing here and seems to have crept in under the radar.

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[> [> there's no fun in fundamentalism -- Gabs, 15:07:29 06/11/08 Wed [1] (83.222.159.231)

(I'm not a huge NoFX fan but that song is catchy)


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