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Even though I agree with the status of public schools, I don't think Christians who send their kids to public schools are sinning - I think it is out of years of conditioning and ignorance rather than disobedience to God. We've all been conditioned to send our kids off to government-run schools when they hit 5, not realizing how viable an option home schooling really is for many, many Christian families. The usual "reasons" for not home schooling are easily overcome when one is determined to home school, for the *best* you can offer your child.
Interesting, but I don't see why the focus on Christianity. Any parent, regardless of religious belief, should be wary of public schools because they fail in what they are supposed to do: educated our kids.
There are no "public" schools.
They've all been co-opted and converted into government schools.
Or more correctly, into government indoctrination centers.
"Re-education" camps.
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The fact that there is some clown anywhere in the world that would even think of something like this is evidence that there MUST be a group trying to create unAryans. Maybe they are succeeding.
I don't know about the sin part. I like to think most of us do the best we can. There have been a number of years that I considered sending a child to the Minneapolis Public Schools to border on child abuse. This is based on the worthless record this system has of putting out literate citizens.
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"Continues Shortt: "Unfortunately, Christian parents allow an aggressively anti-Christian institution"
Wonder why more Christians of concern aren't on the school boards where they can have an impact on this?
...our children are being forcibly indoctrinated to believe that homosexual behavior is acceptable."
Societally homosexuality is acceptible b/c society has made it that way. But in the moral views and beliefs of many, it is unacceptible b/c God has made it unacceptible, not those believing in God.
Ergo, the entire thing comes down to whether or not you believe in a Creator God.
I would rephrase that to say "morally acceptible." It clears things up.
Interestingly, this isn't that extreme a position to those of us who were raised Catholic. Until Vatican II, parents were expected to send their kids to Catholic schools (if they were available, and they generally were) to avoid the negative teaching and example they would receive in public schools.
Of course, after Vatican II, Catholic schools became little better (and sometimes even worse) than public schools, from the moral and religious point of view, so that argument fell by the wayside. However, in principle, I think it's something that Christian parents, whether Catholic or Evangelical, should bear in mind. My kids are all grown now, but if I had it to do over again I would either home-school or move to a place that had an orthodox Catholic school.
But on a more fundamental issue, why did you excerpt this? World Net Daily is not on the list.
Interesting posting, but there's more to the story. As someone who was messed up by attending public schools, I hope to do my own public posting after I've completed my research.
As a born again Christian, I'm about worn out from all these so called Christian leaders telling me about how sinful everything is...they are truly the taliban of the right....we should remember it's by by faith and not works...Gods grace frees us from those burdens that so called leaders keep trying to give back to us..
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Matthew 18:6The only question regards whether particular parents understand that sending their children to godless schools is causing their children to sin.But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
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The only problem that I have with this is that there was nothing in Schortt's proposed resolution that would have called for SBC churches to establish private schools. He only presented the problem, and failed to present a solution to SBC members. He got the cart ahead of the horse on this one. SBC leadership's role from the top down to the local pastor should be to assist in "equipping" the saints. I personally believe that he would have had more success and certainly more credibility if he had approached this problem with the solution.