My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.