The most important thing to understand is that **NO** school can be religiously neutral. Such a state of philosophic neutrality can not exist in the mind of any sentient being.
When government schools are godless they are teaching godlessness. The children MUST think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless classroom.
Yet,... if government schools were to teach a God-centered worldview, what specific religious worldview should be chosen? And...Please remember that generic and lukewarm is offensive to many Christians. The Bible warns that Christ spits the lukewarm out of His mouth.
So?...How to solve the problem? Answer: IT CAN”T!
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing all education. Get the government ( on **ALL** levels) out of the education business!
When government schools are godless they are teaching godlessness. The children MUST think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless classroom.
Yet,... if government schools were to teach a God-centered worldview, what specific religious worldview should be chosen?
And...Please remember that generic and lukewarm is offensive to many Christians. The Bible warns that Christ spits the lukewarm out of His mouth.
Considering that the Lordship of Jesus Christ is made reference to (“Lord” is to be found exactly once - and in that context - in a full quotation of the Constitution) by the framers, whatever the Constitution does mean, it does NOT intend the denigration of Christianity in general.Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.