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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by eduction on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:04PM (#38092996)
As an English speaker on this site, the odds are very high you are descended from someone who believed in creationism. I argue it is good our ancestors weren’t forcibly taken from our other ancestors ala Stalin, Mao etc. simply for being Christians as it was defined a few generations ago.

If you don’t like it, though, there are less successful countries in this world that still persecute people based on religious belief. You are free to try one out. See how it goes.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by jmye on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:10AM (#38098403)
This is a weird argument.

I don’t agree with parent, but the reasons are vastly more nuanced than “your ancestors were religious so you’re wrong.” And that’s ignoring the even weirder swipe suggesting parent move to a different country.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by eduction on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:42PM (#38122724)
Not a question of anyone being wrong. Having the opinion that my relative should have her children taken by the state might be repulsive to me but it is a statement of values, not something that can be refuted.

Instead I simply suggested a reflection: would you still feel this was a good thing to do if it was your great great grandparents having their children seized? Wouldn’t a great many of us have had our families broken?

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