Satire alert

Jeff Lowder recently posted this:

http://secularoutpost.infidels.org/2012/10/is-this-what-happens-when-children-are.html

I’ll make three quite observations:

i) Assuming we take the letter at face value, so what? 14-year-olds are often unsophisticated. Big deal.

ii) We could just as well link to something like the Columbine massacre, with the heading “Is This What Happens When Children are Public Schooled?”

It tells you something about the bubble that atheists like Lowder and Fales inhabit that they can’t anticipate glaring counterexamples.

iii) However, it's pretty obvious to me that the letter is manifestly satirical. Now, there are people who never get satire. They always read it straight. Someone else has to explain it to them.

So we have the ironic spectacle of Jeff and his infidel commenters laughing at the homeschooler, but the laugh is on them. If this is satirical, and they are too dense to figure that out, then it’s not the student who ends up looking dumb, but the "free-thinkers" who are looking down on the student. They are never dumber than when they flaunt their intellectual superiority.