My sisters and I have used Accelerated Christian education from 5th-10th grade. We are JUST fine. That letter....it makes me mad. I did Science 1099, and it said nothing of the Loch Ness monster!
I'm glad to hear that. Perhaps the UK version talks about the Loch Less monster, and the US version does not.
Plus, it's good to have your facts. Yes you need faith. But also, facts are good to have. They confirm what already is.
I think that is what the article is saying: you can have faith in whatever you want, but there is a difference between fact and faith.
I remember I was taking a college (undergrad) course in Biblical Literature. The professor was agnostic, but he was very good at teaching the stories in the Bible, teaching them in their historical contexts, what they would have meant to the people who read them first ... the oral tradition from which they came, etc.
There were only two Christians in that class -- me and one other girl. The rest of the class were Muslim or Agnostic. I remember the other Christian student and the professor got into a little bit of an argument about the difference between "faith" and "knowledge." He was trying to say that God's existence is a matter faith, not fact. She said, "No, I
know there is a God. That's a fact, whether you want to believe it or not." I understood the point the professor was making, however, and offered this truce:
"I
know that 2+2=4. I
believe that God exists. Now, I may believe in God more strongly than I know that 2+2=4, but they're still different things."
Both the professor and student were satisfied with that.