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Holocaust study: Two-thirds of millennials don�t know what Auschwitz is
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Holocaust study: Two-thirds of millennials don�t know what Auschwitz is
That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
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The sad truth is most people have a total lack of historical understanding."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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When we visited DC several years ago with my almost-adult granddaughter, one of the things she said she really wanted to see was the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
When we entered, she was her usual light-hearted fun-loving self, but it was interesting to see her whole countenance change as she looked at - and actually read - the exhibits. I was proud that she didn't just "scan through", but we probably spent more time in that one stop than we did anything else we did in DC - because of her.
Later, when I asked why that impressed her so much, she said, "because we talked about it at school, but they kinda just brushed over it, and it sounded like it was way more horrible than they were saying".The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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A good part of the blame may be on what schools are teaching. I was entirely ignorant of the Armenian genocide until I happened to stumble across a book on it a decade ago at an airport book kiosk - and I had 4 years of honors/AP history in high school.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist
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When I was going through my Home School trial, I received assistance from Mel and Norma Gabler, the "Texas Textbook Critics".
They had a whole bunch of examples of how textbooks have changed in Texas, and what was added in, and taken out.
My favorite example was George Washington. He would show the official Texas textbook for History, and there would be a page and a half about George Washington in the 1965 (or thereabouts) version, and the same textbook the next year had one small paragraph, but a page and a half about Marilyn Monroe.
More specifically, he would point out a sentence that said "George Washington was known to have a violent temper, but he kept it under masterful control".
The next year's version said "George Washington was known to have a violent temper".The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostA good part of the blame may be on what schools are teaching. I was entirely ignorant of the Armenian genocide until I happened to stumble across a book on it a decade ago at an airport book kiosk - and I had 4 years of honors/AP history in high school.
Apparently millennials are so clueless they have to take special courses in how to be an adult.
Millennials Are Signing Up For 'Adulting' Classes To Learn Skills Like Cooking And Budgeting
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Originally posted by Sparko View Posteveryone has seen those comedic interviews where they go on college campuses and ask students who won the civil war, or where various countries are, or even who the vice president is. The students over the last decade or so are completely ignorant of basic knowledge. I blame the colleges who seem more interested in brain washing them with liberalism rather than actually educating our kids.
Apparently millennials are so clueless they have to take special courses in how to be an adult.
Millennials Are Signing Up For 'Adulting' Classes To Learn Skills Like Cooking And Budgeting
https://lifestyle.diply.com/29339/ad...ontent=f010117The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostI think the problem really lies in our public education system -- kids aren't ready for college, so college has to be dumbed down not to flunk the whole lot.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist
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Securely anchored to the Rock amid every storm of trial, testing or tribulation.
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But this is the generation that will quickly call you a Nazi, yet they are overwhelmingly ignorant on the specifics of what the real Nazis did.That's what
- She
Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
Remembering these sorts of mass slaughters is the only way to keep despots from seducing the general population. Because these rarely look like to sorts of people that are headed that way at first. We have to remember what the Communists in so many countries have done, what Hitler did, what was done in the Crusades, and so much more to understand how fragile peace, tolerance, goodness, and civilization in general are, and to recognize the warning signs when some leader, country, religious expression, ideology or sect begins to head down the roads that lead to these sorts of events.
JimMy brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1
If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26
This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19
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