So, we got some Fundy homeschooling textbooks donated to the thrift store, today...

[Odin2005]

The creationist BS and the authoritarian tone of many of the textbooks made we want to weep. Seriously, the 3rd Grade English textbook sad that GAWD will be angry at you if you don't use proper grammar. the 5th Grade Social Studies book quotes Genesis to explain why earth's axis is tilted.

:crazy:

[Drale]

1. Don't you have the ability to turn down donations?

I would have told them to go throw that bullshit in the dumpster out back.

[Odin2005]

10. I'm not the boss.

[femmocrat]

2. Can you just put them in the trash where they belong?

I would!

[Sapphocrat]

9. That's blasphemy!

Throwing paper in the trash, when there are perfectly good recycling plants that could turn this garbage into something useful, like toilet paper.

For shame, for shame!

[Odin2005]

11. My boss would never let me do that, unfortunately.

[kestrel91316]

14. DU should take up a collection to buy those materials and then have you

do the honors of taking them straight to the recycling bin. After defacing them, of course.

[valerief]

3. Ah, kindling! nt

[Liberal Veteran]

4. That's why I prefer the King James version of the 3rd grade textbook.

"And lo, he that speaketh with the tongue of the sinners and whoremongers, him shall I smote, for it is offensive to mine ears."

[AnOhioan]

5. Out with the garbage

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. The poster I put on my fence at Christmas:

(Big flaming sun) AXIAL TILT IS (Earth w/23 deg. & axis clearly marked)
THE REASON FOR THE SEASON

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. Now, those are books worth burning. nt

[Lint Head]

8. Gawd gets mad when you insult his/her intelligence.

[NC_Nurse]

12. I'd buy them myself and enjoy laughing at them...

then maybe burn them...although the toilet paper idea is a good one. Tough call.

[dimbear]

13. Before Abraham was, I am.

God uses some pretty subtle grammar sometimes.

[chalky]

15. Wondering about the history of those books. Did they look like they'd actually been used?

Was some child's mind actually warped from exposure to these tomes? Or did the previous owner buy them, crack them open, go, "WTF?!" and then promptly hustle them off to your shop?

[Odin2005]

16. They looked pretty used to me.

[chalky]

17. Damn.

n/t

[Riftaxe]

18. "quotes Genesis to explain why earth's axis is tilted"

I always suspected Phil Collins, it's those narrow eyes... :P

[backscatter712]

19. I don't suppose you could scan them and post them?

Or at least post some of the juicier quotes!

We atheists are always looking for good comedy! :evilgrin:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. Next to "axial tilt" I put up a poster of my favorite Christmas baby:

Isaac Newton.

The natives were baffled in spite of the visual aids.

[Dorian Gray]

21. What the hell?

Crazy...

[Taverner]

22. I'll be they would recycle nicely