Let me tell you some of the things I heard growing up in off-grid/fundamentalist/anarchist/sovereign/homeschooling circles. Let me tell you things said and taught and believed by good Christian homeschooling families.
Disclaimer: these are not necessarily all beliefs that my family ever held, but they were held in sincerity by friends, church members, teachers, and various members of the homeschooling community in which I was raised.
CW for ALL the awful things.
CW for ALL the awful things.
"Black people can't be saved and inhabit heaven; they are under the curse of Ham. They could possibly be redeemed and occupy a different place in heaven than the rest of us Chosen people, but most won't. They are often enemies of God."
"Modern day Jews are imposters. White Caucacions are the 10 lost Tribes and God's true chosen people. " (they were torn on whether white people would once again restore Israel to its true owners or if America usurped Israel as the promised land)
"The gov't is Rome. They are illegitimate. We are under no obligation to follow Rome. Actually we have a moral imperative to oppose Rome. We recognize no authority but God's. And we may have to fight and even die for that stance."
"Randy Weaver was a righteous man and the FBI persecuted and murdered his family because the FBI is part of Rome and under the influence of Satan and false gods who want to kill and destroy God's chosen people [white people]. He will be avenged on the day of Judgement."
"The South was God's chosen land of promise, morality, and family values. The War Of Southern Aggression was Rome's way of destroying what God loved."
"God's law is the supreme law of the land. Any of man's law that opposed God's law should be disobeyed and it is us to up as God's chosen and Kingdom warriors to punish those who disobey God's law."
"This place has demons left over from the Native Americans who lived here. They summoned demons and false gods and we must purge the land so we can truly inherit the promised land God gave us."
"America was God's promised land for his chosen people. We had a moral obligation to purge it of the evil living here, even if that meant killing the natives who brought the evil here. Just like the Israelites did in Canaan. And God blessed us like he blessed them."
"God cannot bless a mixed race marriage. The children would be illegitimate."
"Social security numbers are the mark of the beast. They make us a commodity of the government. We don't need identifying papers because we do not belong to Rome, we belong to God. Those papers give ownership of our bodies to Rome and that is displeasing to God."
"We don't need marriage licenses, building permits, drivers license or any other permission from Rome because we have permission from God to do those things & his word is all that matters. This land the roads the trees the skies all belong to God not man. He has given it to us."
"Guns are our way of exercising our God-given right to freedom against the tyrannical government. We may have to use them against attacking gov't agents someday who try to take away the freedom God has given us."
"We should get all the young men together and form our own militia. A Christian militia. We can teach them to use guns and weapons and protect our families and land from the ungodly government."
"It's a righteous cause to kill abortion doctors and bomb clinics. Saving the life of innocent babies sometimes means taking the life of their murderers."
"The Kingdom of heaven is opposed to the kingdoms of men and we live in opposition to them as citizens of the Kingdom of heaven. They will persecute us for not being of their world. They will not understand us. They may even fight us. But we have God on our side."
These are the voices of those good Christian homeschoolers people seem obsessed with today. Families active in church and communities and farmers markets. I lived in a part of the west where anarchist Christian white supremacy was rampant.
Our curriculum was white supremacist at worst, white-washed at best. We had books from men who defended slavery [Steve Wilkens]. We were sovereign citizens. We were raised to see the gov't as illegitimate and opposed to God. Violence was boasted about.
None of these folks turned into serial bombers or murderers. But some turned into wife beaters and child abusers. Had run-ins with law enforcement. Many more just live their lives quietly their way.
But how long can beliefs like these fester out there in the woods before someone acts on them? Had a serial racist bomber come out of any of this, I and many others would not have been surprised. Beliefs have consequences.
I was 18 the first time I realized that it might be weird and alarming that i didn't have a social security number and drivers license. From there it was a slow dawning on just how weird my background was and why.
As a liberal studies/social science major, I have so much more context for these things years later and have become much more alarmed by them.
are you the one that has all the links on the racist curriculum?
When the separation of church and state is taken to a really weird extreme....
