|
Voltaire
|
1# |
Rank:none
Status:
Score:0
Posts:1490
From:
Registered:
07/08/2001
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:03/04/2004 09:17:10)
Oh geez, I could go on for hours about being raised in Adventist schools. I was in private schools all the way from kindergarten through college. It was all the same kind of ultra conservative crap found in any other denomination: no rock music, no movies, being indoctrinated daily during school hours, chapel services and required attendance at chruch while at boarding school. I had to memorized bible passages for class assignments. On and on it went, every day from kindergarten through college, and Saturdays in church.
I now have dumped it all and hold it it contempt. I'm now an atheist and glad to be out of that prison.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Zombies, Unicorns, Devils, Sea Monsters, Satyrs, Dragons, Six Winged Angels, Gods, Demons, Witches, Astrologers, A walking & talking snake, Magical fruit, Talking donkeys, human headed six-winged beasts, Ghosts. All that stuff is in the Bible and yet they tell me it"s not mythology?
|
|
Shadowself
|
2# |
Status:
From:
Registered:
01/16/2004
Time spent:
1773 hours
|
(Date Posted:03/04/2004 18:09:30)
Hiya back attcha, Horseloverfat!
I am so glad my parents didn't send me to Xtian school. They talked about it when I was going into the eighth grade, but not because they wanted me to have a religious education. My parents were afraid because our school system was finally going to start busing kids to integrate the schools. Fortunately, the Baptist school they were considering had just been open a few years, and had not yet added Jr. High grades. Plus, I complained so loudly, I like to think that had something to do with my being allowed to attend public middle school. And I finally got to meet up with kids from other races. It was a positive, growing experience. So often, parents send their kids to these schools for such rotten, fearful reasons. The Baptist school, by the way, is still open and has expanded through high school. I've since found out that they use neanderthal Bob Jones University text books. Uck!
Boy, this could be a whole 'nuther thread, so I won't hijack yours, Horseloverfat. We welcome your story to our book of life without xtianity!
--------------------------------------------------------------
A big revelation in my professional training was that humans can learn skills for living and relating. We don"t have to be desperate for a miracle of God to make us decent.--Marlene Winell
|
|
Chirpy
|
3# |
Status:
From:
Registered:
03/07/2003
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:04/12/2004 01:45:53)
I didn't as I went to a state (or public school as you would call it) though there was an input of christianity. We would learn about creationism in religious education and evolution in biology. As well as that we would sing hymns in morning assembly. That was up until the last school which was pretty humanist in basis though education laws at the time insisted on compulsory religious instruction. So when I walked away I returned to my old beliefs and then had to build up a sense of self from there bearing in mind that the world had changed over the last decade.
Funny how bible bashers attack evolution as a belief system when confronting those who know about it yet don't mention it to those who have been kept in ignorance from it. In the same way nobody talked about sex and relationships when I first starting going to evangelical churches and wanted answers on the subject. It was as if I was completely innocent on the matter and for them to give me advice was tantamount to putting ideas in my head.
|
|
JunblaA
|
4# |
Rank:none
Status:
Score:0
Posts:294
From:
Registered:
04/14/2002
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:04/12/2004 09:31:40)
Anyone here ever raised in fundy schools or churches? Anyone have any horror stories from this time?
That is why we are here
Welcome
|
|
Hephaiston
|
5# |
Rank:none
Status:
Score:0
Posts:247
From:
Registered:
05/15/2004
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:06/01/2004 13:44:09)
Hey Horselover - which Phil K Dick is your fave? I rate mine thus:
1) Divine Invasion
2) Radio Free Albemuth
3) UBIK
4) Scanner Darkly
5) Confessions of a Crap Artist
--------------------------------------------------------------
- -- Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby.
-Karen Carpenter
|
|
HorseloverFat
|
6# |
Rank:none
Status:
Score:0
Posts:13
From:
Registered:
03/04/2004
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:09/16/2004 08:42:28)
Reply to : Hephaiston
Hey Horselover - which Phil K Dick is your fave? I rate mine thus:1) Divine Invasion2) Radio Free Albemuth3) UBIK4) Scanner Darkly5) Confessions of a Crap Artist
VALIS, Flow My Tears and UBIK have to be my favorites....never read Crap Artist but I heard it was good...
|
|
Boris7
|
7# |
Rank:none
Status:
Score:0
Posts:13
From:
Registered:
10/07/2004
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:10/07/2004 09:11:30)
I went to a church near Valley--and it was about as bad as that.
Anyone here ever raised in fundy schools or churches? Anyone have any horror stories from this time?I do. I went to Valley Christian Junior High back in the 80's. Back then I wrote a lot. Journals, short stories, etc. At one point during recess I was sitting at a table writing one of my stories. The teachers knew I wrote a lot and the teacher asked to see what I was writing. I showed him and as he read it, you could see he looked displeased. He then tore the manuscript up on the spot and told me I should "Thank" him for not reporting me.
My sin? The story had one or two swear words.
That teacher sure knew how to encourage creativity? So sad, but good for you--you see the difference. 
|
|
No Kathleen
|
8# |
Rank:none
Status:
Score:0
Posts:19
From:
Registered:
11/17/2004
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:11/23/2004 00:34:12)
Man, you guys, I'm sorry. What crap experiences. Tearing up your work!
I used to go to a Christian school, too. This was a very small school that went up to grade nine. My brother and sister graduated from it. (Well, my brother spent his first year or so of school at a public elementary school.) But I only went there up to grade five, at which point I switched to the same school my brother had once attended.
It's just as well. I don't remember any bad experiences myself -- and I can only imagine junior high would be worse than elementary -- but apparently my sister has indicated that it didn't help her any going there. To its credit, the school did well with language; we actually had grammar class (what a concept).
There seems to be a lot of drama/politics there, too. I don't know how to elaborate -- it just sounds to me like there's a lot of politics with the teachers/principal...
Anyway, I guess I can now understand -- in a way -- why my sister said, about one of our former schoolmates, "Poooor kid, going to a Christian college! POOOOOR kid!"
...irrelevant comment: I still find it amusing the morning that the principal stuck her head out of her classroom door and said to someone in the hall, "Don't be talking about underwear in the hall! It's not appropriate!!" (paraphrase)
--------------------------------------------------------------
"Don't go, Kathleen, you can't make it sight unseen! All the words they whisper to you aren't exactly what they mean..."
-- "No, Kathleen," Ron Hynes
"Father... I've never smelt the bread of heaven before." -- Robert Tilton
|
|
HorseloverFat
|
9# |
Rank:none
Status:
Score:0
Posts:13
From:
Registered:
03/04/2004
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:12/04/2004 00:24:38)
Honestly, I watched a special on the madrasas of Pakistan, where young "holy warriors" or mujahadeen are brainwashed from a young age to be suicide bombers, etc and I really see very little differences between the Xian schools and these madrasas.
|
|
myeyesopen1
|
10# |
Rank:none
Status:
Score:0
Posts:36
From:
Registered:
01/15/2005
Time spent:
0 hours
|
(Date Posted:01/15/2005 05:05:12)
I went to a christian college for a year. Hell, I had more fun that year than I had ever had before in my entire life. I think that instead of learning to "fear god", I learned that rules, especially ones inflicted by fundies, were created to be broken and all my fun was to see how I could break the rules and not get caught.  We weren't supposed to go to any dances and public dancing was forbidden. It didn't mean that we wouldn't find someone with a car and head out to the nearest big city and find all the discos!!!! (Yes, this was before disco died). No drinking, smoking, or movie theaters. No card playing. Guys who visited the girls dorms could not go any further than the front living room/parlour and any girls in there had to be fully dressed, including shoes and socks.  I had my worst drunk ever (passed out for 5 hours), and in my class, I guess it could be called "Bible 101", this old geezer preacher type who was teaching the course passed out a sheet entitled "30 Reasons Why I will not Dance". Talk about snickers. Then there was this old geezer woman, who taught history, always had prayer before class and she would always select a young man to lead the prayer. You know those young men, biblegod's young lordly males who are future leaders. Well, she made a serious mistake one day. She chose one young lordly male to pray, and he prayed the entire class period. | | |
