And...Christians stupidly let them do it!!!!
Christians should be doing three things IMMEDIATELY!!:
1) Getting their kids OUT of the atheistic government schools. Their own children are their most important mission field.
2) Getting the kids of their congregation out of the atheistic government schools. The children of their congregation are their next most important mission field.
3) Working to shut down government schooling by starving them of money, and electing representatives that will privatize education.
And we’ve seen how much our society has “evolved” since the secularists have used gov’t to kick religion out of public education.
Government education got its start in the U.S. because Protestant Christians of mid and late 19th century were fearful of Catholic immigrants and the Catholic religion. They simply could not imagine that government schools would ever be anything but Protestant Christian in philosophy. What STUPID people!
Any government powerful enough to force children into government schools that Protestant Christian in worldview, is powerful enough to force Christian kids into schools that preach atheistic Secular Humanism!
William Wilberforce and other Christian activists lobbied mightily for compulsory ( police enforced) government education in England and the U.S. If they could see today the atheistic Secular Humanism that these government schools have birthed, they would be shocked to the quick. Yes, I am shouting! I am exasperated!
Public schools have existed in this country since before there was a US. Even Thomas Jefferson was a supporter of publicly-funded schools.
And publicly funded universities have existed in the West since at least the 11th century, with the founding of Cambridge and Oxford.