So some Christians are paying $5,400 per year for a specialized school that will turn their children into cretins with worthless diplomas.
Quote:New Christian school in central Newfoundland teaching alternate curriculum based on Bible
His new school is based at the local Pentecostal church, but it doesn't follow the same curriculum as the province's public schools.
It uses an education program called Abeka, which comes from the United States and teaches based on a literal interpretation of the Bible.
That means the school's students are taught the earth is 6,000 years old, it was created by God in six days and humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs.
"The Abeka science and health program presents the universe as the direct, orderly, law-abiding creation of God and refutes the man-made idea of evolution," states the program's website. "Students are presented with plants, animals, rocks, elements, forces, the human body — and much more — according to an understanding of the design and laws of nature."
The health program takes its teachings on homosexuality and adultery literally from the Bible as well.
"Dr. Hugh Pyle discusses adultery, fornication, and homosexuality as they are presented in the Bible and explains their results," says a summary of Abeka's sexual education textbook Sex, Love, and Romance: Sex education from the Bible. "The book also details God's plan concerning purity and marriage and the consequences of disobeying his moral commands in these areas."
"Even the math. If you look at the math book, it ties in biblical concepts. It teaches the children all the concepts they need to know, but it ties in that Christian part of it. The biblical aspect of it," said Hodder.
Tuition is $5,400 per year, and the organizers are hoping to expand the school to include students up to high school.
But it's not clear what that would mean for the students at Crossroads.
The provincial government says all schools must meet the same educational standards in order for students to graduate. If they don't, they won't receive an official diploma. The Education Department specifies that students who complete Grades 10 to 12 under the Abeka system won't qualify.
For Mullett — who was raised in Ontario's Christian schools — both the curriculum and the cost of sending four kids to the school makes sense.
"I don't think that science and faith conflict each other at all," she said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundl...-1.7552078
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
