So Jonny Scaramanga put out a question to his readers: who here has experienced the ‘Accelerated Christian Education’ program—a bizarre fundamentalist ‘curriculum’ used in certain especially dodgy religious schools, and by some fundamentalist homeschoolers—and can tell us what that was like?

A Canadian responded, at length. Money quote, if y’ask me:

The worst thing I learned was how NOT to learn. How NOT to think critically, how NOT to question authority, and how NOT to come to my own opinions using objective source material. For someone who does actually love to learn new things, it was torture. It was like a 7 year S&M session, with “Jesus” as my safe word.

Lovely.

Originally picked up via the first Pharyngula podcast, where it is pointed out: some of the schools pulling this crap do, in some nations, in fact, receive public funds, through voucher schemes. Your tax dollars at work.

Bonus material: an older thread on the Cult Education Forum, also with reports from some of those put through this garbage.