Posted on 03/23/2013 5:35:52 AM PDT by IbJensen
Indeed! But...Where is the evidence that it is specifically related to Mary?
If you ask 1000 people, that's how 999 will define the word.
...which, until recently was a miniscule portion of the societal educational experience,
Until the 1800s.
...and which, IMO is destined to disappear or at least shrink drastically.
The teacher unions will fight it tooth and nail. The only hope is for homeschoolers, but they will never comprise more than 10% of the population, at least for the foreseeable future.
Historically, parents have demonstrated a reluctance to give up free babysitting.
If we go by Scripture and not man, we find that the Queen of Heaven is mentioned in Jeremiah 7:18 and 44:18. She is an abomination to God. Read about her. Below is a commentary on Jeremiah 44:18 it tells you who she is and now you know why she is an abomination to Yahweh.
44:18 Queen of heaven refers to Ishtar, a goddess of war and fertility who was worshiped with explicit sexual activity. The people reasoned that when they stopped worshiping the queen of heaven in the days of Josiah’s reform, their king was killed and their land was overrun and destroyed.
44:19 Women were leaders in the Ishtar rites, which included incense burning, drink offerings, and special ceremonial cakes marked with the symbol of the goddess (7:18).
Radmacher, E. D., Allen, R. B., & House, H. W. (1997). The Nelson Study Bible: New King James Version (Je 44:18–19). Nashville: T. Nelson Publishers.
Be that as it may, Mary is not Astarte, who is the consort of Baal. If you want imagery, try Revelation, Chapter 12. When we depict Mary, it is the woman with a halo of twelve stars, Mary as mother of the Church, given by Jesus as such to the care of the Beloved Disciple as he stood with her at the foot of the cross.
The letter killeth, writes Paul. We really don’t know do we? But I think it is reasonable to think that Jesus was remembering something he had seen, and of course that might well have been his mother, with a lamp searching diligently for something quite valuable. We like to think that Jesus had a very close relationship with his mother. Some evangelicals see to think they were estranged. Oe is it simply they want to seem as NOT Romish as possible.
Possibly. Perhaps "education" is better than "school".
"The teacher unions will fight it tooth and nail. The only hope is for homeschoolers, but they will never comprise more than 10% of the population, at least for the foreseeable future."
I'm sure they will, and end up in the same situation as buggy whip manufacturers.
"Historically, parents have demonstrated a reluctance to give up free babysitting.
I suspect that the leaders of the change will be the home-schooling segment. I can see "home-schooling" easily turning into "network schooling" (which I would define as a small group of kiddies gathering at a single location to study together...perhaps at the home of a local tutor).
But a change in the form of education is inevitable. The central school may do nothing more than provide physical facilities for those classes that need practical, hands-on work (chemistry and physics labs, shop classes). "IF" professional teachers continue to exist, they will probably function more as tutors who students go to if the on-line coursework isn't getting the points across. But "teacher lecture/student listen" is headed for oblivion.
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