There is actually a special college for home schooled evangelicals -

[astro]

I had no idea this place existed.

Found out from this article
German reporter goes underground at Patrick Henry College
Here is the school’s website

Statement of Faith | Patrick Henry College (PHC)

The College is, and shall always remain, a Christian institution dedicated to bringing honor and glory to the Lord Jesus Christ in all of its activities. Each trustee, officer, faculty member, and student of the College, as well as all other employees and agents of the College as may be specified by resolution of the Board of Trustees, shall fully and enthusiastically subscribe to the following Statement of Faith:
A.There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
B.God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.
C.Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, is God come in the flesh.
D.The Bible in its entirety (all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments) is the inspired Word of God, inerrant in its original autographs, and the only infallible and sufficient authority for faith and Christian living.
E.Man is by nature sinful and is inherently in need of salvation, which is exclusively found by faith alone in Jesus Christ and His shed blood.
F.Christ’s death provides substitutionary atonement for our sins.
G.Personal salvation comes to mankind by grace through faith.
H.Jesus Christ literally rose bodily from the dead.
I.Jesus Christ literally will come to earth again in the Second Advent.
J.Satan exists as a personal, malevolent being who acts as tempter and accuser, for whom Hell, the place of eternal punishment, was prepared, where all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity.

Patrick Henry College is a small school in Virginia where a reactionary form of Christianity is taught along with neoconservative political theory. The students have all been home-schooled by fundamentalist Christian parents, which means they have never been in a classroom with African-Americans, Muslims or gays and lesbians. At home they were taught that God has a special covenant with America, Europe is a cess-pool of atheism and relativism, and the United Nations is doing Satan’s work. These students don’t have to worry that they will encounter Jews or Muslims at Patrick Henry College, for in its Statement of Faith the college maintains that these non-Christians “shall be tormented in Hell for eternity.” They also will never see an openly gay person, even on television, since these young adults need their parents’ permission to watch popular television programs like Will and Grace that feature gay characters. Their internet access is filtered of any “un-Godly” content.

[Gukumatz]

That’s not a College, that’s a Boot Camp. More like a madrasa*.

• Yes, I’m aware that I’m misusing the actual word.

[Baker]

If their internet access is filtered of any unGodly content, I guess they won’t be reading the SDMB, will they?

[Gyrate]

@Baker

If their internet access is filtered of any unGodly content, I guess they won’t be reading the SDMB, will they?

Once you remove the “unGodly content” from the internet you’re pretty much restricted to Conservapedia and Zombo.com.

[Sailboat]

@astro

The students have all been home-schooled by fundamentalist Christian parents, which means they have never been in a classroom with African-Americans, Muslims or gays and lesbians.

What the hell are African-Americans doing in that list? Are they somehow considered unChristian? Are Stormfront or Mein Kampf among the “66 books of the Bible in its entirety?”

The whole thing is absurd, but that’s especially revealing.

[TruCelt]

@Gyrate

Once you remove the “unGodly content” from the internet you’re pretty much restricted to Conservapedia and Zombo.com.

What? You can do anything at ZomboCom! The only limit is yourself!!! Satanist propoganda! Secular Humanist temptation! The voice of the devil!!! Ban it! Block it! Save the children!!!

[Johnny_Bravo]

@Gukumatz

That’s not a College, that’s a Boot Camp. More like a madrasa*.

• Yes, I’m aware that I’m misusing the actual word.

Ironically, it would be better to say that this school is exactly what these people think a madrasa actually is.

[FriarTed]

@Sailboat

What the hell are African-Americans doing in that list? Are they somehow considered unChristian? Are Stormfront or Mein Kampf among the “66 books of the Bible in its entirety?”

The whole thing is absurd, but that’s especially revealing.

It’s either revealing about the school if it keeps out blacks (doubtful) but may also be revealing about the author’s prejudices.

[Chronos]

The students have all been home-schooled by fundamentalist Christian parents, which means they have never been in a classroom with African-Americans, Muslims or gays and lesbians.

If they were all homeschooled by insane-right fundie parents, I’ll bet a significant number of them have been in a classroom with gays.

[ReticulatingSplines]

PHC is in my neck of the woods and I remember reading about it when it was first established about a decade ago.

Here’s the twist, though. Unlike most fundie schools like Liberty and Regent, PHC students have very high SAT scores. It was also a feeder school for Bush administration jobs at one point, IIRC. No big surprise there, I suppose.

This is not, however, to defend the school, whose very existence I find somewhat disheartening.

[Inner_Stickler]

A friend linked to a different article from 2005 about Patrick Henry that focused on how they train students to be politically savvy aides. God and Country. They were really proud of just how deeply they were embedded in Bush’s administration. I’m really curious how their numbers are doing currently.

[Doug_K]

@Sailboat

What the hell are African-Americans doing in that list? Are they somehow considered unChristian? Are Stormfront or Mein Kampf among the “66 books of the Bible in its entirety?”

The whole thing is absurd, but that’s especially revealing.

African-Americans are not in that list. Nothing in the OP’s second quote appears in either link. I don’t know what astro is quoting, but it’s neither the linked article nor the school’s website.

[Inner_Stickler]

It’s from here which was linked to in the article with the words american madrassa.

[Bricker]

The summary of the German article seems to be inaccurate in at least some particulars:

Nearly all of the students at Patrick Henry College have been home-schooled by ultra-conservative evangelical Christian parents. At Patrick Henry these young people can complete their christo-fascist indoctrination before joining right-wing think tanks and media groups in Washington. Students are taught to kneel before images of Jesus and Ronald Reagan; they attend lecturess on how America can waterboard its way to global dominance. Professors are dismissed if they actually teach science, since students are taught that the earth is only 6000 years old and baby Jesus frolicked with dinosaurs.

My German is non-existent but I’m pretty sure “Ronald Reagan” translates as “Ronald Reagan.” There’s no mention of Reagan in the German article.

The thirteenth stroke of a clock is not only clearly wrong itself, but casts grave doubt on the accuracy of the preceding twelve.

[Shodan]

@Doug_K

African-Americans are not in that list. Nothing in the OP’s second quote appears in either link. I don’t know what astro is quoting, but it’s neither the linked article nor the school’s website.

I don’t think the reporter is saying that Patrick Henry College excludes gays or blacks - he/she is asserting that no home-schooled students have ever been in a classroom with gays or blacks. Which may or may not be the case.

Regards,
Shodan

[Little_Nemo]

The College is, and shall always remain, a Christian institution dedicated to bringing honor and glory to the Lord Jesus Christ in all of its activities. Each trustee, officer, faculty member, and student of the College, as well as all other employees and agents of the College as may be specified by resolution of the Board of Trustees, shall fully and enthusiastically subscribe to the following Statement of Faith:
A.There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
B.God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.
C.Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, is God come in the flesh.
D.The Bible in its entirety (all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments) is the inspired Word of God, inerrant in its original autographs, and the only infallible and sufficient authority for faith and Christian living.
E.Man is by nature sinful and is inherently in need of salvation, which is exclusively found by faith alone in Jesus Christ and His shed blood.
F.Christ’s death provides substitutionary atonement for our sins.
G.Personal salvation comes to mankind by grace through faith.
H.Jesus Christ literally rose bodily from the dead.
I.Jesus Christ literally will come to earth again in the Second Advent.
J.Satan exists as a personal, malevolent being who acts as tempter and accuser, for whom Hell, the place of eternal punishment, was prepared, where all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity.

K. Credits are non-transferable. Tuition is non-refundable.

[Little_Nemo]

@Sailboat

What the hell are African-Americans doing in that list? Are they somehow considered unChristian? Are Stormfront or Mein Kampf among the “66 books of the Bible in its entirety?”

The whole thing is absurd, but that’s especially revealing.

The “66 books” part is actually aimed at non-Protestants. The Protestant biblical canon contains sixty-six books. The Catholic Church has seventy-three books and the Orthodox church has seventy-eight books.

[Inner_Stickler]

@Bricker

My German is non-existent but I’m pretty sure “Ronald Reagan” translates as “Ronald Reagan.” There’s no mention of Reagan in the German article.

The paragraph you quoted is not a summary of Coen’s article.

[Bricker]

@Inner_Stickler

The paragraph you quoted is not a summary of Coen’s article.

In that case, it’s unclear to me what the source is for the Ronald Reagan claim. The author appears to have fabricated it.

[Inner_Stickler]

He is no more claiming that they kneel to pictures of Ronald Reagan than he is claiming that the biology professor discusses the frolics of Jesus with dinosaurs or that Waterboarding Your Way to World Dominance 101 is a real class.