“...Parents can’t count on a couple hours of Sunday School with a youth pastor to counter the 40 hours of public schooling instruction, and then the added corresponding homework, that their kids get every week...”
That’s about the size of it.
It’s not the school - it’s the “parents”.
As long as we’re talking about God I’ll bring in the Catechism take it or leave it. It comes from the Bible. If you look up the paragraph you can find from where In the bible it is cited
Anyway it is both common sense and natural law
“Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. ...”
CIC 2223
This is utter BS. How many Freepers have raised godless and liberal children? I am sure there are a few as is happens in most families but I am willing to bet that most Freepers have raised children who reflect their beliefs.
If you fervently desire to teach your children to be God fearing a school will not stop you.
It starts with parents. Schools are secondary.
They are teaching polytheistic deist syncretism, a spin-off of moral relativism.
"Many roads to the mountain" and Kipling's poem about the blind men and the elephant come to mind.
But therein is the fallacy: Relativism is being taught as a moral absolute!
It goes deeper than that, to the churches themselves. Every major denomination in the US has been experiencing a schism between leftist-liberalism and conservative-traditionalism.
Churches with dominant leftist-liberalism in charge are driving away children and their parents in droves. And if they don’t have a conservative-traditionalist choice in their area, they often drop out of their religion altogether.
Among the Catholics, to a great extent it began with Vatican II. But the leftist-liberal infiltration began in the Protestant churches almost at the same time.
It has been going on for a long time, though. Some date the start of the schism to the end of WWII, and the near universal dismissal of the concept of an active, fiery Hell.
And the embracing of eastern religious concepts as well as mysticism.
The commercialization of Christmas - no mention of who’s birth we’re celebrating; you put Christ in Christmas and it’ll be banned.
Oh that’s simple,
The belief in the One True God has been replaced by evolution.
If you look at school books from the 1900’s you would see God and the Bible everywhere.
After time the belief in God has been replaced by the belief in man....
In my neck of the woods, the Catholic Archdiocese was the first to start scheduling track meets, and sporting events on Good Friday. The Catholic Schools that didn’t participate forfeited, and we’re counted as losses.
Next, it was when the community children’s sports activities like little league, soccer games, etc started being scheduled on Sunday Mornings “because there aren’t enough fields for all the teams” to all play Saturdays, and Sunday afternoons.
This created a situation by pittng parents against kids as they were facing kids being kicked off teams, and kids facing the ire of their friends and team mates whose parents didn’t think Sunday School, or Church were more important than sports competitions.
I was dismayed 20 odd years ago when I saw this happening in the nearby, more “sophisticated” towns as mine was more conservative, and Churchy than those other towns, but it finally came here. This was a town where Sunday mornings, and Wednesday evenings never had sports activities because those were when people attended Church services.
I thought it was because when they found out there is no santa they just gave up on the whole deal.
Ping
In the past, the arm and bayonet were the Enemy. Today the book is the enemy.
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>deism (that God is irrelevant to life)
That is not the only definition of deism. Deism can also be a belief in God through natural evidence. That is how God can choose to call people who have never heard Scripture (as before there was Scripture, e.g. Enos Gen 4:26). I came to Christ though deism and today call myself a Christian deist. I find it right in the Bible:
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Psalm 19:1
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
I know I’m different. I rejected public school indoctrination by 4th grade (advanced classes) on my own (really stupid propositions in social studies) and questioned God through my teens. But I found Christ through a proper understanding of science (amateur astronomer before starting school) by 1978 and going to a (highly imperfect) religious high school and reading the entire Bible cover to cover on my own that summer. I am still a sinner begging for forgiveness but I believe.
I doubt most American children have heard or understand the Gospel.
