By Timothy Michael Short
Meet Tim. A homeschooler from rural Virginia, Tim goals of attending Jerry Falwell's Liberty collage and changing into a pastor of his own Church.
Indoctrinated in fundamentalist Baptist theology from toddlerhood, Tim is uniquely proficient to reach his pastoral education.
After a few shut encounters with homosexual activists,Jerry Falwell, napalm explosives, the FBI, ATF, Police, nudist missionaries, alcoholic alums, sword wielding Muslim roommates and loss of life threats from a Kenyan Muslim...Tim bought rather the freedom Experience.
Tim, the preacher boy, took these issues in stride but if he was once challenged to learn The God fantasy by way of Richard Dawkins his existence and religion may by no means be a similar.
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We learned about how Jesus was savagely crucified for our sins. We learned that we cannot trust our own hearts (Jeremiah 17:9) and that our sins earned us death (Romans 6:23). We learned that gay men are not to be trusted and that we should never, ever have sex unless we are married to a nice Christian girl. There was a lot of gay bashing and slurs and epithets used at the expense of the scapegoat du jour, maybe Hollywood one week and Washington the next. It was ironic because our uniforms were pretty gay.
I have seen some and heard campfire stories about some as well. I think of Pensacola Christian College or Piedmont Baptist. I think of Bob Jones or Oral Roberts U. Their recruiting DVDs might as well be called Jesus Camp: The Unrated Director’s Cut—Now with Footage Too Shocking to Show in Theatres. Proponents of the religiously motivated, modern homeschooling movement may find this a little more offensive than I would ever intend, but I do have some opinions on education and child abuse. If I hurt people’s feelings, who should be ashamed of themselves for how they are raising their kids, I cannot exactly apologize.
You didn’t choose not to believe these things. You reached a point in your life, almost by complete chance, where you discarded the literal interpretation of Scripture and the world you knew turned its back on you. ” Glad you asked. You may as well take off your pants and lower the lights…it’s about to get weird. ” —Mark Twain There are many useful stereotypes about preacher’s kids and homeschoolers. There are a few stereotypes about homeschooled kids who are also preacher’s kids. With a dash of extremely conservative politics and a pinch of extremely fundamentalist Baptist dogma, these stereotypes don’t even begin to describe how off-center my life was before going to college.
