I am not the one that seems angry or venomous here.
I am merely stating calm and carefully reasoned FACTS:
—Government schools are godless in their worldview.
—Children who attend these schools must think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it possibly be otherwise?
— Rational Opinion: I think that is an evil thing for a teacher to do a child.
—Rational Opinion: If Christians really cared about the eternal souls of children they would be doing everything legally and peacefully possible to close down the government school abominations and provide children with spiritually healthy alternatives.
—Rational Opinion: A Christian working in a government school is like a Christian working in an abortuary, except the eternal risks for the child who is taught to think and reason godlessly is infinitely worse!
Happy Thanksgiving!
You said,
—Government schools are godless in their worldview.
Answer:
I agree that, taken as a whole, schools are godless. But so is the world, if taken as a whole. Scripture confirms this.
You said,
—Children who attend these schools must think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it possibly be otherwise?
Answer:
I disagree. Children who attend here may be encouraged to “think and reason” godlessly (maybe they are really being encouraged not to think), but they don’t HAVE to think this way. There have been many instances in the media where we see teachers clamping down on Christian thought, but that does not happen in my classroom (or in the classroom of any bible-believing, spirit-filled Christian educator). I understand that public schools are, by and large, antithetical to godliness. I get it. So is the world. What should a Christian do? Withdraw? That’s not what the Great Commission challenges us to do.
You said,
— Rational Opinion: I think that is an evil thing for a teacher to do a child.
Answer:
To teach a child to be godless is evil, yes.
You said,
—Rational Opinion: If Christians really cared about the eternal souls of children they would be doing everything legally and peacefully possible to close down the government school abominations and provide children with spiritually healthy alternatives.
Answer:
Any proposals? Without them, this is naive, wishful thinking. You blame the Christian educator for exacerbating the situation, rather than withdrawing from these schools. I should think a Christian would praise God for there being ANY KIND of Christian influence in our public schools, while “the rest of us” (meaning you and your like-minded brethren, wintertime) figure out a way to transition these failing institutions into ones that work and which allow for the teaching of Christ as an essential part of the educational process (”The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.”)
You said,
—Rational Opinion: A Christian working in a government school is like a Christian working in an abortuary, except the eternal risks for the child who is taught to think and reason godlessly is infinitely worse!
Answer:
This sounds good, but it is patently faulty logic. Of those that enter abortion clinics, half do not come out. Ever. Of those that enter a public school building, unless they meet with some physical death, they all come out...and they all have the opportunity to hear the Gospel and be saved. While they may not be getting prepared spiritually to meet the Lord (unless, perhaps, they’ve had a Christian teacher sowing seed in their lives—God waiting to send another so that He might get the increase), they have not been whisked off into eternity BY THE ACT of going to the public school.