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They employ 1205 people? What on earth (or in heaven) do they do? (Apart from banking donations to pay the wages obviously).

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I try to impress this. Modern day evangelical christianity is BIG BUSINESS. These people publish everything. Books, TV shows, movies, Sunday school packets, School texts, radio shows, and anything you can think of. They solicit money in donations as well. Dobson is RICH. They have political organizations as well. They are setting up a dual life structure. Christian this, christian that. They raise kids
who never go to school or the movies or see regulat TV. They are setting up a country within a country that reads the same things, watches the same media, and VOTES the same way. I get bitched at for calling them Nazis, but they want and crave power and uniformity. And they are doing it. Maybe you blue state people don't believe it or see it, but I see it on an everyday basis. They even have destination emigration areas inside the US for you to move to so they can saturate areas with "christian" communities. GWB will not be the end of their political malevolence. Even if numbers are declining and ageing, they are turning out a core of propaganda educated youth and uneducated older people who will vote as they are cajoled from the puplit.

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Wow! You slammed a few reasonably good ideas with some broad statements!

Home School: Better idea than people realize, but not for everyone, blind leading blind etc.. Categorizing them as uneducated is not only an uninformed, albeit common misconception, but also an overestimation of the merits of public school. Parents that home school their kids take it very seriously and YES home school kids interact with other children. American public schools are churning out some of the dumbest kids on the planet... and those are the ones that finish. The percentage of home school kids that go to college compared to public school kids is (I don't remember the numbers, but very impressive).

TV: Seriously? I really don't know anybody that advocates for kids watching regular TV. Curbing this is simply responsible parenting.

Instilling your beliefs into your children: Pretty much universal, and a very separate thing from the brainwashing, pulpit voting scenario you describe.

Most Christians are just family oriented people who want to raise good kids and have some like minded friends... and as you stated, dollar signs for big business evangelism.

But don't throw out the Baby Jesus with the bath water! Many of these Christian nuts are producing caring, responsible, thinking adults.