I don’t like to criticize a person’s religious belief, but I must explain why some people hurt their children’s future. A few years ago a neighbor had loved a Muslin man while she was in college. She converted to his faith. When he went back to his country she stayed and later married an American becoming a hard right Christian and had three children.

She home schooled them because the public schools taught lies. I don’t remember what her degree was in but she made sure no secular information was heard by them. She quickly decided my three college degrees, two in physical science, were from lies and her goal was to correct my knowledge. She was teaching her kids it was impossible to go to the moon, the earth was 6,000 years old, dinosaurs were lies, Noah’s flood had covered the entire world, including Mt. Everest, and other preposterous stories like oil and coal were put there when the earth was made, and other anti-science “facts”.

I told her if her kids were not given facts instead of her “truths”, their occupations would be extremely restricted. No scientific career would be open to them. Even human and animal medical work conflicted with her teaching. History, geography, geology, social science, and most other “above the shoulder” jobs would conflict with her teaching.

Conservative laws allow her to home school her children and brainwash them into her religious belief. We have allowed too many crazy people to use home, religious, and ethnic schools to “teach” children viewpoints that are totally impossible. We allow these schools to teach hate and superiority by skewing history and science. What should really scare Americans is some of these graduates are in Congress now. Maybe that is why they are so gullible on denying climate change and science.