As yall probably know, I was homeschooled from birth to the end of 'high school', and cut off from most secular culture - except for 3 months, when I attended public school at the age of 14, and ran into a lot of public school norms that shocked and confused me (cont).
I generally view all the negative aspects of the homeschooling as bound with the religion - for example, the only thing I learned about evolution was that it was a lie, and also there were very strong, oppressive hierarchical structures inside the families.
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What about the positive aspects (high-trust community, etc.)? Seculars and the semi-religious have attempted to replicate that without the religion, but it seems hard to do. E.g., with Judaism, as
@lukeford has noted, non-orthodox communities seem to die. -
I agree that it's harder to create lasting trusting communities without religion, though I imagine non-religious homeschool communities (and maybe experimental 'free-range' schools?) probably have similar levels of high trust.
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I would advise to continue questioning evolution, just because you were taught with some brain washing tactics that evolution was a lie, doesn’t mean it is all true.
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