Comments on: Secular Thursday: Things you could learn from Daisy and The Mama

By: Smrt Mama

Smrt Mama — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:53:17 +0000

Thank you! I am glad to know someone appreciates my “dancing on the line” between amusing and offensive (as The Mama from Concordia Classical Academy called it).

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:51:34 +0000

Yet another great post from Smrt Mama! I think I found you through Concordia Classical Academy, I do enjoy reading her blog too.

By: Kez

Kez — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:49:46 +0000

Hear hear! I was going to start blogging, but I can see that I don’t need to have a blog, because yours already says most of what I think lol.

By: jj

jj — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:26:48 +0000

That’s one of the things that’s always turned me off homeschooling, I have a hard time imagining that I could find a place with the local homeschooling movements (which are religious in nature). I’ve been really interested to read along as you implement a largely classical based curriculum.

On point #4 though, I think that some visible proponents of the “new atheism” movement (like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins) have done secular folks a world of hurt in that regard.

By: Smrt Mama

Smrt Mama — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:45:24 +0000

I appreciate that you’re telling me. I’m not exactly glad to know that everyone feels the same way, but it is somewhat comforting, I guess, that the feeling of “will y’all just knock it off, already?” Everybody snarks the other side occasionally. Humans are inherently tribal and, when we’re feeling insecure, we revert back to the need to create an “Other” in order to solidify our sense of “Us.”

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:26:37 +0000

There are definitely enough e-tacks to go around, unfortunately, and I’m sure we all notice the ones e-tacking our own beliefs the most.

I’m a pretty conservative Christian, those “on the outside” might mistake me for a fundamentalist, but I get tired of the “You call yourself a Christian, but…” and “You of all people…” emails I periodically get. Of course, I don’t like the insults thrown my way by the secular side, either, but somehow they’re more amusing and I take it less personally.

And I have no idea why I’m telling you that.

By: The Mama

The Mama — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:49:22 +0000

I think you hit the nail on the head.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:24:36 +0000

Awww, that’s a sweet post.

I hope that if I’m going to offend someone it is going to be because they couldn’t get past MY beliefs and not because I couldn’t get past theirs.

Thanks, Smrt Mama.