Really...please think on these words that were printed in 1930...
“Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, AND EVERY AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL IS A SCHOOL OF HUMANISM. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?”
Or...
“So very humanistic is modern education that no religion has a future unless it be Humanism. The religion of tomorrow in America and the day after tomorrow in all the world may not be in all respects identical with the religious Humanism we are advocating in this book, but it will be mightily like it and of the same spirit.”
Both of these statements are from “Humanism A New Religion” by Charles Francis Potter in 1930...he also signed the Humanist Manifesto 1 in 1933 along with John Dewey the “father of modern education”.
We are much better served to instead follow the words of Scripture...
Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit at the seat of mockers.
I still cannot understand why so many parents will send their children to learn from the wicked, sinner, and mockers and then think that they can “undo” the damage.
Please remember these words...
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God-I say this to your shame.
Keep in mind two things:
1. Public education is still a very localized phenomenon in the United States. The variety of public school experiences is dramatic. While many public school systems, especially larger systems, and especially urban systems, have wholeheartedly embraced an alien (at least to Christians) ideology, many systems, not as much.
Generalities may be true in a general sense, but often fail at the level of the particular.
2. Not everyone agrees with you. Or me. Many folks are just fine sending their kids to school systems that have embraced a secular humanist ethic because, well, frankly, these folks themselves have embraced much, if not all of such an ethic. And a lot of these folks consider themselves Christians or religious Jews. Whether you or I think much of their religion or faith life, they attend churches or synagogues, they say their creeds, they have a faith life.
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