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[–] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

Maybe the result of US education system

CHRISTIAN 4TH GRADE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK TRIES TO EXPLAIN ELECTRICITY

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Link to the book please, I can't believe this.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I second this, it seems a bit too much on the nose to be real.

Edit: Omg, it's real.

[–] kromem 10 points 10 months ago

The reviews are hilarious

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Funny, that giving drugs to children is illegal, but shit like this not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish people would give me all these free drugs, they're wasted on the children.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Those free drugs are mostly a lie, drugs are expensive.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Fourth grade textbook published by Bob Jones University, and highlighted in a ScienceBlogs post by PZ Myers

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

I have a high degree of confidence this is real. Looks like the hard work of Bob Jones University Press.

I won’t disable my ad blocker to view the site, but there may be a discussion about it here:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/christian_4th_grade_school_textbook_tries_to_explain_electricity

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This Artikel about it is really funny

https://1900hotdog.com/2020/10/learning-day-science-4-for-christian-schools/

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

People have most certainly felt electricity.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Mistaking it for being touched by the hand of god, when they were trying to remove the bread from the toaster with a fork.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As someone who did this before knowing it was dangerous I got away with it a ridiculous amount of times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your username seems to be weirdly accurate.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 2 points 10 months ago

It was not a title I chose but one I simply learned to accept.

[–] Death_Equity 1 points 10 months ago

How was your Operation game? I'm guessing you won a lot.

[–] kromem 3 points 10 months ago

People can also say where it's from.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that really from a book that used to teach children? Holy fuckin hell. No wonder America got shittier every day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder whether the kids being taught by that book ever zapped each other with static

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

IT'S LIKE MAGIC!

Then they probably got punished for practicing witchcraft and dark arts.

[–] Resonosity 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As an electrical engineer, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Don't forget holy water in your toolbox.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I didn't know you can't work when the sun is down. Are electricians vampires?!?

[–] carl_dungeon 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Christians are as fucking stupid as djt it seems

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Feeding the children since centuries

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

BRING IT FORTH

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

What a loser. Everyone who has watched the Pokemon TV show knows what electricity looks like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I threw up a little in my mouth...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've been shocked a couple of times, I think I have an okay idea of what electricity feels like

[–] Sam_Bass 1 points 10 months ago

If you really want to feel it you can, very easily. I have its quite the sensation