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laims an extensive list of universities that have accepted the advanced certificate for university entrance after looking through universities responses to freedom of information requests however it appears that a number of them have not accepted the qualification at all update 20 november 2014 uwe s university of the west of england bristol response has been added the icce website lists universities which it claims have accepted graduates of the icce and or ncsc national christian schools certificate the old name for icce but when anjana ahuja spoke to some of these universities as part of the bbc newsnight investigation none of them said they actually accepted the icce as an entrance certificate in most cases the universities had accepted icce graduates but only after they had studied additional qualifications elsewhere it was those qualifications a levels international baccalaureates that gained these students their university places none of them recognised the icce as a standard entrance qualification anjana only spoke to six universities but this was enough to make me curious in how many other instances was the icce s advertising misleading in july i asked richy thompson to put in freedom of information requests to every university on the icce s list he contacted 56 universities of which 50 responded it turned out the icce website was quite misleading read the rest of this entry posted in accelerated christian education creationism education faith schools 11 comments tags accelerated christian education ace christian education europe higher education icce international certificate of christian education naric national christian schools certificate ncsc ofqual ucas accelerated christian education s ugly history of racism nov 18 posted by jonnyscaramanga oh hi everyone homeschoolers anonymous is running a series on homeschooling and race as part of it i contributed a post about ace s history of racism i ve talked about ace and race before here here and here but this includes all new never before blogged racism second thing my old post why fundamentalism is not faith is suddenly getting an enormous amount of traffic apparently from facebook and i don t know why so hi all my new readers and please let me know where you found me here s my ha post i remember staring at the text economics is the major reason that apartheid exists some people want to abolish apartheid immediately that action would certainly alter the situation in south africa but would not improve it it was 1996 i was 11 nelson mandela had been president of south africa for two years and apartheid had been officially abolished in south africa for five i was not exactly well informed about the situation i knew it was complicated and that the country was not exactly without problems but i also knew that apartheid had been an evil thing that had treated black people as less than human i suspected my book was written by a racist i didn t say anything about it to my parents though that wasn t how ace worked you just got on with it in silence read the rest of this entry posted in accelerated christian education christianity education faith schools fundamentalism school of tomorrow 9 comments tags ace pace reviews bju bob jones university donald howard home schooling racism racist segregation white supremacism the battle for evolution in scottish schools nov 10 posted by jonnyscaramanga tomorrow the scottish parliament s petitions committee will be hearing from members of the british centre for science education bcse and scottish secular society sss earlier this year the sss started a petition urging the scottish government issue guidance on the teaching of creationism in schools in england and wales there is clear guidance that creationism and intelligent design are not valid scientific alternatives to the theory of evolution and should not be taught as such in scotland there is no equivalent document this is a problem because as we ve previously seen there have been significant inroads by creationists in some scottish schools fortunately in that case there was a decisive win for science but what that case showed was that creationism genuinely is an issue in scotland and it will continue to be so without clear guidance so you might think that the sss petition backed by three nobel prize winners would be uncontroversial in case you d forgotten this picture of a dinosaur working as a beast of burden was included in creationist material distributed in a scottish school in 2013 read the rest of this entry posted in christianity creationism education evolution faith schools fundamentalism 8 comments tags bcse c4id evolution evolution education intelligent design paul braterman scotland scottish secular society accelerated christian education s survivors speak out nov 3 posted by jonnyscaramanga once more this week we re diving into reddit s ask me anything about ace schools unlike most amas where redditors ask questions of the original poster this thread was most notable for all the other people with experience of ace who dived in to tell their stories previous sections part 1 part 2 here are more assorted ace comment from reddit s ama on the subject their presence here does not mean i agree with everything they say but it s great to hear from other ace students olhonestjim every few years my parents would enroll me in some christian school that taught either abeka sic or ace curriculums i hated ace i wanted to play and talk to other kids it was the absolute worst education i ever had especially the science history reading writing social studies and math books i was always far past the education levels for the grade i was in my work for the day was always finished in a couple hours it instilled in me laziness of both thought and action you weren t allowed to touch or come within 6 inches of touching your friends the uniforms were uncomfortable ugly and unnecessary oh god those stupid morality comics they put in there i hated them too and they were the only entertainment my favorite character was the bad kid who was always misbehaving talking bad about the teachers untucking his shirt smoking cigarette butts he found read the rest of this entry posted in accelerated christian education atheism christianity creationism education faith schools fundamentalism school of tomorrow 2 comments tags accelerated christian education corporal punishment paddling reddit christian rock thursdays the christian ac dc oct 30 posted by jonnyscaramanga in 1994 there was a buzz about a new release on the christian record label benson records by there was a buzz i mean of course the christian music magazines were talking about it which is perhaps not quite the same thing anyway nouveaux seemed to be benson s flagship rock band for the year and all the reviews said the same thing they were the christian def leppard never mind that by 1994 mtv refused to play videos even by the real def leppard let alone a christian imitation here was the christian answer to the biggest rock band in the world in 1989 they sounded like this alternative link christian alternatives were vital to the success of the christian rock industry a lot of the consumers of christian rock were teenagers who weren t allowed to listen to secular bands there was always a gap in the market for a jesus infused i can t believe it s not van halen that particular niche was never really filled partly because david lee roth and eddie van halen are inimitable and partly because it s the sexual energy that makes van halen work and no christian band would replicate that there were christian imitations of rush metallica guns n roses ac dc ratt if a metal band went platinum in the 80s the christian labels were scrabbling around for a clone read the rest of this entry posted in atheism christian rock christianity 7 comments tags ac dc christian rock thursdays def leppard deliverance metallica music nouveaux radrockers rush trytan x sinner i feel like the ace program virtually destroyed my life oct 27 posted by jonnyscaramanga last year on reddit an ama ask me anything about an accelerated christian education school turned into a free for all for ex ace students at the time i explained how it had brought a ton of important ace survivor stories into the open and i shared one of the the best here s another from that event i m so glad it happened many of the stories are tragic but so much of this would never have come out into the open without it this week s tales are from the user canibalfoodfite as i recall the user expressed the wish not to be contacted about their experiences but i link to the original posts so you can see the source i feel like the ace program virtually destroyed my life read the rest of this entry posted in accelerated christian education atheism christianity education faith schools fundamentalism 9 comments tags ama reddit survivor stories christian rock thursdays legend seven vs slutty girls oct 23 posted by jonnyscaramanga legend seven were never one of the biggest christian bands although wikipedia tells me today s song was reached 2 on the christian charts in 1992 and they weren t one of my favourites either for some reason though i got this song stuck in my head the other day and gave me the idea for this blog series so here we are angela is off the band s first album when they were just called legend they later changed names to legend seven presumably because there was already a more famous secular band called legend here s the song in case it gets taken off youtube here s another link and here s a live version which actually doesn t suck at least no more than the original and for your perusal the lyrics it came out in 1991 or 1992 there are two conflicting reports on wikipedia and my copy of the cd is in my old bedroom at my mum s house and it sounds pretty typical of the time or rather it sounds pretty typical of christian rock at the time which means it sounds typical of secular rock three years earlier now i m allowed to listen to secular music it reminds me a bit of thunder a british early 90s band who really wished they were free or bad company during cock rock era it was pretty common for bands to write songs about tearaway teenage girls and in a lot of ways this song is just another one of that genre the difference is that if this had been a motley crue song angela would have been the object of lust in fact there is a mötley crüe song called angela and that is indeed the case that s what girls are in hair metal songs they exist to embody the fantasies of the male singers they are simultaneously worshipped because they are the providers of sex and despised because they are trashy read the rest of this entry posted in atheism christian rock christianity leave a comment tags christian rock christian rock thursdays evangelicalism feminism legend seven music slut shaming escaping quiverfull oct 20 posted by jonnyscaramanga if you follow this blog there s a good chance you also follow no longer quivering the blog started by vyckie garrison where i ve also posted occasionally vyckie escaped from quiverfull and since then has dedicated huge amounts of her time to exposing abuses of power within this patriarchal movement if you don t know what quiverfull is here s vyckie s brief explanation quiverfull is the idea that truly godly families will trust the lord with their family planning children are viewed as unmitigated blessings as arrows in the hand of the mighty man so are the children of ones youth happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them and as such the couple is willing to have as many children as the lord chooses to bless them with artificial or chemical birth control such as the pill or iuds are equated with abortion the sin of murdering your own offspring natural birth control such as natural family planning is not actually natural because a couple must abstain at the very time of the month when the woman is naturally more desirous of physical intimacy all methods of conception control is considered a lack of trust in god to provide for the children of the righteous now vyckie needs our help after devoting her life to helping other women escape from quiverfull she deserves our help too last time i announced on this blog that someone needed our help we raised almost 1 500 in under 12 hours i realise that you all have your own financial pressures and commitments so i m just going to show you some examples of vyckie s work and i think you ll agree it s worthwhile if you can t give though just check out vyckie s story because it s amazing here s a video and an article so choose whichever you prefer the end of my life as a bride of christ came after a visit to bright horizons which is the local domestic violence shelter in my hometown of norfolk nebraska i went there for help in filing a restraining order against my husband whose emotional and mental abuse against me and my children had escalated to the point that i was in the midst of a complete mental and physical breakdown he had taken 6 of our 7 children to a town three hours from our home and was preventing me from having any contact with them unless i agreed to his terms for our reconciliation read more vyckie is still suffering the fallout from divorcing this man she is in danger of losing the home where she lives with the last five of her seven children on her support page there are various updates showing the work that vyckie does to support other women in need like this and this it s all very well encouraging people to leave fundamentalism but a lot of people aren t as lucky as i was for some of them leaving means losing family friends support networks and income if you re in a position to help please read the fundraising page and consider supporting vyckie if you don t want to use the credit card system on the give forward site you can also donate by paypal or cheque related posts we have a chance to save a girl from a 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