<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[A Blog Around The Clock]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://blog.coturnix.org]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Bora Zivkovic]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://blog.coturnix.org/author/coturnix/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Abducted by Aliens! Fundie&nbsp;Aliens!]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Yikes!  This was here in my neighborhood, in Winston-Salem, NC!  Poor guy &#8211; did he get an education!  What does he think about America now?<br />
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,448350,00.html" target="_blank" title="">My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s his story.</p></blockquote>
<p>Read the whole thing &#8211; it is an incredible story.  The family&#8217;s whole purpose in taking him in was to recruit him to work on the building of a Baptist Church in Poland!  How brazen!<br />
(Thanks to <a href="http://thesciencepundit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="">The Science Pundit</a> for the tip)</p>
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