[JenB]

Heh - so you know what it's like to be the rabid fanatic in one group and the "dissolute liberal" in another, huh? I've met a few of Hair's homeschooling wackoes - my sisters and I call them the 'Gettysburg' homeschoolers, because they don't let their kids read anything but biographies and history books, usually saying either that imagination is evil and will cause their kids to fall into sin (hmmm... I think we have some of those at FR) or that there's 'too much violence' in novels. Our point is that there's more violence and vile-ness in history than in most of the books I read.

Anyway, I don't approve of those types either. But they're free to be that way, and it's probably better to have them alone than to have them around other people.... in all my life I've met only two homeschool familes who I felt would be better off in public school. Sadly, one of those were my cousins.

[2Jedismom]

Heh - so you know what it's like to be the rabid fanatic in one group and the "dissolute liberal" in another, huh?

LOL!!! Exactly!! Ha haa! That's exactly right!

[2Jedismom]

I'm just very accepting of people. I love people. If a person is nice to me, I don't care if they worship a cast iron skillet. I had a Wiccan group that lived next door to me once and they were the nicest people. Watched over our house when we were out of town. We had a huge organic garden and they would stand out in it and meditate! It was kinda funny, but hey, to each their own. I wouldn't even mind a liberal, if they're courteous. But so few are.

[ksen]

Here, I think you need one of these:

;^)

-Kevin

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Our point is that there's more violence and vile-ness in history than in most of the books I read.

Yes the idea that you avoid violence by restricting yourself to history and the Bible is a rather odd viewpoint.