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Sundays With The Christianists: A Biology Textbook That Explains Science Is Mostly Atheists Making Things Up
You know what’s compelling about creationists? They are awfully good at making incredulity seem like science: “Evolution is like believing that a tornado in a junkyard could build a 747″ and so on. Which means that we’re in for one last look at our tenth-grade science textbook, Biology for Christian Schools, by William S. “Stop [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: A Biology Textbook With Dinosaurs On Noah’s Ark
Greetings, heathen scum! Are you ready for more Bible Science? Get your rubber gloves on, because we’re continuing our dissection of a textbook from Bob Jones University Press, Biology For Christian Schools, by William S. Pinkston. Last week, we learned about the very scientific theory of the “canopy” of water that floated above the atmosphere, [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: A Biology Textbook For A Very Young Earth
Greetings, Science buffs! Get some pants on already! And maybe some hip boots, because we’re going to continue wading through our tenth-grade textbook from Bob Jones University Press, Biology For Christian Schools by William “Pinkie Pie” Pinkston. Last time, we learned how evolutionary theory fits into Satan’s plot to make Man reject God’s Word. This [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: A Biology Textbook To Take On The Ark With You
As we mentioned last time, our current textbook-shaped object, Biology For Christian Schools, by William Pinkston, takes a pretty novel approach to science, telling students that if scientists’ conclusions “contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong no matter how many scientific facts may appear to back them.” And so, since the Book of [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: Home-Schooled Biology So Bad It Lost A Lawsuit
Our latest Christianist textbook, Biology For Christian Schools by William Pinkston (2nd Ed., Bob Jones University Press, 1994) is actually something of a classic, if by “classic” you mean “the focus of mockery and derision by professional biologists” and “so bad that students taught with it were deemed unprepared for college.” We were almost hesitant [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: Sex Education That Knows Just How Very Naughty You’ve Been
This week, we’ll round out our brief foray into the strange world of Fundamentalist Christian sex ed books with a look at masturbation, an all-time favorite topic for both Christianists and Wonketteers alike, albeit from different perspectives. This is a serious issue that deserves a thoughtful, mature discussion. Yes, we’ll wait while you go and [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: Sex Education For Your Date With Jesus
Greetings once again, you filthy sex poodles! Did you know that Jesus is really concerned about that pagan you’ve been palling around with? In this week’s visit to Christianist Sex Ed Books, we’ll have a few words about dating, especially about the pitfalls of getting tangled up romantically with people who are not Christian, or [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: Sex Education For Godly Virgins Who Intend To Stay That Way
OK, you harlots and fornicators, let’s get something clear right off the bat. This column’s examination of Christianist sex education books is a serious look at the cultural attitudes of the Religious Right, not just an excuse to snicker at the crazy fulminations of the late Hugh F. Pyle of Panama City Florida, the author [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: Sex Education From People Who Think You’re All Filthy Perverts
Welcome, Wonketterians, to our weekly foray into the world of textbooks aimed at Christianist homeschoolers! This week, as promised, we’ll start a short series on a pair of sex-ed books for the middle-school years. The first, Facing the Facts: The Truth About Sex And You, by Stan and Brenna Jones (Navpress, 1995), is pretty much [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: A ‘World History’ Book That’s Ready For Apocalypse, Now
Well, time tourists, we have made it to our final visit to our 10th grade textbook for homeschoolers, World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective. This post will be a bit longish, because there’s a whole lot of crazy to cover between the fall of the USSR and the end of the world, but we [...]
Sundays With the Christianists: A ‘World History’ Textbook That Neither Trusts Nor Verifies
As we’ve mentioned now and then, our 10th-grade homeschooling textbook, World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective, is very much a product of the Reagan era; even though its most recent version was published in 2010, it maintains the aggrieved tone of the Moral Majority types who helped Reagan come to power. There are some [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: A ‘World History’ Textbook That Spins One For The Gipper
One of the nifty things about World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective, our 10th-grade textbook for homeschoolers, is that the editors do not suffer from any uncertainty about anything. None of that nonsense about differing opinions and disagreements among scholars here — things are on God’s side or are evidence of depravity, and it [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: A ‘World History’ Textbook That Loves The Smell Of Napalm In the Morning
Well, here we are, humping the boonies of the Culture Wars, and one of the Things We Carry is our 10th-grade textbook for homeschoolers, World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective. We know we promised we’d get to Ronald Reagan singlehandedly knocking over the Berlin Wall this week, but there’s just so much Cold War [...]
Sundays With The Christianists: A ‘World History’ Textbook To Protect Homeschooled Darlings From The Big Mean U.N.
Be of good cheer, intrepid Wonketteers! We are very nearly finished with our 10th-grade textbook, World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective, which means that very soon, Saint Reagan and Jesus will come to take us home! (That, or we’ll delve into a sex ed book from the same publisher.) Last week, we polished off [...]
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