Yikes! This was here in my neighborhood, in Winston-Salem, NC! Poor guy - did he get an education! What does he think about America now?
My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists:
When Polish student Michael Gromek, 19, went to America on a student exchange, he found himself trapped in a host family of Christian fundamentalists. What followed was a six-month hell of dawn church visits and sex education talks as his new family tried to banish the devil from his soul. Here's his story.
Read the whole thing - it is an incredible story. The family's whole purpose in taking him in was to recruit him to work on the building of a Baptist Church in Poland! How brazen!
(Thanks to The Science Pundit for the tip)
Comments
I'm ... speechless, just speechless.
Posted by: The Ridger | November 14, 2006 6:36 PM
It's a shame that these "Southern Baptists" were clouded by their "Blinded by self righteousness, screw foreign exchange for education, further our evangelical agenda" mindset. Sometime people think God wants us to "Force Feed" whatever we think He/She represents onto other people. Unfortunatley for those who think that even God has givin us all free will, and it sounds like these people wanted to take it away. You were basically a hostage of demented Psudo-Christian Zealots, I apologise for Americans and Christians everywhere. You shouldve learned something very important from this though.
Posted by: Justin Dudley | November 14, 2006 7:13 PM
Gaak. #%$&*%*# like this gives Christians everywhere a bad name. If these freaks want to know why "Christians are persecuted" (and I have no doubt they feel as if they're about to get thrown to the lions any day now), they need look no further.
Posted by: anomalous4 | November 15, 2006 12:26 AM
Good, Spiegel translated it into English. I read the German version yesterday on the Spiegel web site.
It appears that the American Student exchange program should screen their host families a little better. And remove the foreign students immediately after a problem arises.
Posted by: raj | November 15, 2006 8:30 AM
Absolutely amazing and appalling. I just can't believe they'd sink that low. They have to import their slaves now, can't control enough local zombies?????
Posted by: Zuska | November 15, 2006 10:04 AM
Culturally, it would appear that the 19-year old from an Eastern European country is way more mature than the middle class North Carolina family.
That just can't be -- This young Borat is telling convincing and amusing tales of our backwardness.
Oh, what have we wrought with this great experiment of ours? Apparently the premise that 17 years of no sex is normal. It's no wonder we don't want gays marrying.
Posted by: Ted | November 15, 2006 11:53 AM
When I was an undergrad, a fundie-evangelical neighbor moved next door. When my mother told her that I was majoring in biology she proceeded to let me know that my soul was in mortal danger. After dismissing her, she took it as a mission from god to try to save me.
A few years later I ran into her. I let her know that I got a PhD in evolutionary ecology. Needless to say, the look on her face was priceless.
Posted by: Gerardo Camilo | November 15, 2006 6:58 PM