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Monday, January 27th, 2014

Top 5 Lies Taught By Accelerated Christian Education

Author:     JONNY SCARAMANGA
Source:     Leaving Fundamentalism
Publication Date:     7-May-13
 Link: Top 5 Lies Taught By Accelerated Christian Education
Stephan:   I ran a story a while ago about "Christian" fundamentalist education trends. A young reader who had grown up in a Christian fundamentalist family and gone to "Christian" schools using the ACE program, covered in that article, wrote and sent me this one, telling me "every word in this story is true." Later in the day another reader sent it as well. This is how the new Dark Ages Trend is playing out as it involves tens of thousands of Theocratic Right families and their hundreds of thousands of children. A willfully ignorant cohort in our society, at a time when facts have never been more important.

There are ‘facts” in the ACE PACEs that are absolutely untrue. Now, you might be kind and say, ‘Perhaps they are mistakes.” But these errors have remained in the PACEs through successive reprints, and they are things which were known to be untrue long before the PACEs went into print in the first place. Therefore, we can say that the writers didn’t care about factual accuracy. If you’re running an education system, that’s gross negligence and I feel no compunction about calling these things lies.

I called ACE on May 3rd, 2012, and was told that all of these PACEs are still in print and the content has not changed. These lies are still being taught in over fifty British schools today.

5. The Loch Ness Monster Disproves Evolution

This would be at number 1, but since it’s already been substantially covered in the Times Educational Supplement and the Guardian (at my instigation, please note), I don’t want you to feel you’re getting second-hand information. If you haven’t read the stories and can’t be bothered, Science PACE 1099 contains this priceless wisdom:

Some scientists speculate that Noah took small or baby dinosaurs on the Ark…. are dinosaurs still alive today? […]

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