The parallels between Julian's actions and modern socialized education are startling. The teaching of pagan practices such as perverted-sexuality and aborticide are protected in socialized schools under a cloak of "toleration." Socialized schools require teachers to be certified by the state, effectively closing the schools to Christians who cannot "burn incense" to the methods, principles, values and goals required for certification. Christians are now referred to disparagingly as "right-wing fundamentalist fanatics." They have been subject to a humiliating administrative persecution for many years — though never directly attacked.