In my town alone there must be ten large churches on Main Street. I think kids must be refusing to go to church and their parents are desperate so they try to turn public schools into churches.
Well there is the problem....they often do take their kids to the churches who teach them that Christ is a living faith to be lived and taught no matter what the circumstances....another words a non compartmentalized world view.
These kids then enter a school system which tells them that they can have any sort of self, non compartmentalized world view they want except to express ideas about faith and Jesus Christ;that is compartmentalization of thought and situational ethics. They end up not only mistrusting religion which doesn’t seem to be “scientific” but they also end up not developing a true respect for science because the way the schools teach it strips the humanity from the human...science offers no hope...just a certain enoxorable philosphy that all things lead to entropy and chaos. Our secular schools create “men without chests”! And every-one wonders why our schools are failing??!!
In the end it will always be about faith vs materialism...trite little comments about tax dollars don’t even begin to define the depth of the conflict.