Onward Little Xian Soldiers

We pause in the photo-bloggering to remind all & sundry that the editor-publisher of this electro-rag was home-schooled for several yrs. & it Didn;[t hurt us mnone  !!

No surprises for anyone who'll admit that child-bearing & rearing are fascism in its purest & vilest form, & that home schooling is the vilest form of raising the little bastards, but as long as Western society allows young people to be held hostage to their parents' ideologies the message of freedom for all (not just powerful white grown-ups) must be repeated.

Christian Reconstructionists

Smith is referring to the Calvinist movement, founded by Rousas John Rushdoony, that advocates a Christian takeover of the political system in order to "purify" the nation and cleanse it of the sin of secularism. Rushdoony taught that public schools – "statist education," in his words – promote chaos, primitivism, and "a vast disintegration into the void". He advocated home schooling as a way to rear a generation that could carry out the mission of retaking the nation for Christ.

Much of fundamentalist home schooling is driven by deeply sexist and patriarchal ideology. The Quiverfull movement teaches that women need to submit to their husbands and have as many babies as they possibly can. The effects of these ideas on children are devastating, as a glance at HA's blogs show.

"The story of being home schooled was a story of being told to sit down and shut up. 'An ideal woman is quiet and submissive,' I was told time and time again," writes Phoebe. "The silence and submission I was pushed into was ultimately a place of loneliness, bitterness and almost crippling insecurity."

The fundamentalist home schooling world also advocates an extraordinarily authoritarian view of the parental role. Corporal punishment is frequently encouraged. The effects are, again, often quite devastating. "People who experienced authoritarian parents tend to turn into adults with poor boundaries," writes one pseudonymous HA blogger. "It's an extremely unsatisfying and unsustainable way to live."

Now we'll have to wait until one of these little ideologues blows up something for Jesus before any of these unfortunate children are freed from the fascist prisons of their houses.