Posted on 07/05/2009 7:36:02 AM PDT by wintertime
What about teachers? Is it a sin for Christian teachers to teach an atheistic godless worldview to their students? Is is a sin for Christian teachers to support with their labor an institution whose very goal to teach children to compartmentalize their faith and to evaluate everything they learn through a godless lens?
By the way...Any Christian teacher who tries to sneak in little bits of Christian values is teaching the children that Christians are sneaky. Will the job of true missionaries be easier or hard when these students reach adulthood?
Yes it is I think.
We can talk about all other issues until we are blue in the face. Truth is...this is the biggest and only one that really matters or can ultimately make a difference. If the public is stupid (and they are), you have a big problem. ...and we do. Question is what do we do now?
I think we can debate whether it’s better to homeschool or private / public school, but bringing “sin” into it is somewhat ridiculous. My parents both teach at public schools. They are wonderful people, and they have not devoted their lives to “sin.”
” * 88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18;
* 83 percent of children from committed Christian families attending public schools adopt a Marxist-socialist worldview; “
I do not buy these numbers, period!
Narses: Another Reason for Catholics to find a good Catholic school that teaches **traditional** Catholic principles and values. Do that or homeschool.
It’s a small wonder that right thinking people exist at all in our current environment.
Socialist/Libs dominate education, entertainment and the MSM and I hope for the briefest of time, the whitehouse and congress.
BTW, as a single father, I raised and sent all four of my kids to private school.
exactly.
I went to catholic parochial school from K through 10 in NYC, where many of the public schools were actually dangerous... but 11 and 12 was after we moved to the suburbs and the public school education there there was excellent.
BTW, my first lessons in evolution were from Brother William Paul, of the Marist order. we called him Bio Bill and he was dedicated to Christ and a student and teacher of real science...and neither a Luddite nor a flat earther as many here are.
It’s a small wonder that right thinking people exist at all in our current environment.
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The only conservatives that I know who are under the age of 45 are those who have been mugged by reality. The rest continue to be liberal/Marxists and/or work a government job.
The school experience, in my opinion, is centered on one teacher in one given classroom. Or a few, as in High School. If you have a Christian teacher that year, your experience will be a thousand percent different than if you have a raving lib.
A good, Christian teacher can make for a life-changing year in the life of a student, whether or not he preaches the gospel. Speaking the Truth is always compelling, whether it is a light in the darkness or one light among many.
Did the Apostles only speak to believers? Did they only go where it was safe and already Christian? No. Christians have always been small lights in the darkness, and it is never counted a sin.
We homeschooled, however.
All government schools teach everything through the lens of a godless worldview.
ALL do! The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Doing that teaches children to compartmentalize their faith. It teaches them that faith must be hidden and tucked away as if it were a bathroom activity.
So?...If you think this is great, lucky you! You get to have your religious worldview subsidized and **established** by the taxpayer. Hm?...”Established”? Gee! Doesn’t the First Amendment have something to say about “establishment”?
Common sense.
The kids aren’t stupid. They know that the Christian teacher is merely attempting to sneak in more rational values. Why shouldn’t they just conclude that Christians are sneaky?
They know that a brave Christian, that was serious about his faith, would likely have been fired long ago. So?...Do they conclude that Christians are cowards?
The fact is IF YOU WANT A GOOD EDUCATION, DON’T GO TO PUBLIC SCHOOL.
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush and Horace Mann are the chief instigators of Public Education. Do you think they were out to subvert the Constitution?
PSALM 1
Ps 1:1 ¶ Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. {ungodly: or, wicked}
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. {wither: Heb. fade}
4 ¶ The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
EPHESIANS 6
Eph 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
DEUTERONOMY 6
De 6:4 ¶ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen}
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
I sent 3 boys through public school the youngest just graduated in June. They are God believing men, who are engineering and science majors...(the 2 oldest).
I dont see it as an issue as long as you monitor your childs schooling and teach them right from wrong and how to filter the PC crap. We all have a good laugh at the PC stuff they pull at schools and they know enough to not believe it.
I am certain that our Founding Father were in favor of “public” food and “public” shelter, too! They weren’t, however, out preaching for Soviet style grocery stores or cement block government housing.
This writer lost me at “83 percent of children from committed Christian families attending public schools adopt a Marxist-socialist worldview.”
First of all, define “Marxist-socialist worldview.” Secondly, how on earth would you measure such a thing? Thirdly, even here in New Jersey we don’t even have that many Marxist-socialists.
I am sick of Christians who will a accept an intellectually flaccid product (be it writing, entertainment, or purported “research”) from fellow Christians, apparently for the sake of supporting one of their own and hearing what they want to hear.
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