From homeschooled fundie to free-thinker

Way back in 2005 I posted a largely unremarked-upon diary about how I escaped my Theocratic upbringing. As a result of recent discussions on homeschooling, particularly the differences between conservative homeschooling and progressive homeschooling, and also because many progressives think there's no way to escape the programming delivered by a theocratic religious conservative homeschooled childhood, I'm republishing this original diary. I've updated and clarified this a bit from it's original form, posted nearly 7 years ago. I've become less religious and more political in that time.