The worldview of the government schools is GODLESS and secular.
The child’s specific religion, his church scriptures, his religious leaders teachings are specifically prohibited from being integrated into the total fabric of the GODLESS government school worldview.
A nod or two in the direction of God does not make a GODLESS socialist-entitlement K-12 school GOD-CENTER. In fact, it is a slap in the face to God.
re: “The worldview of the government schools is GODLESS and secular.”
Then every government entity, by your definition, must be Godless. From the military, to police, fire departments, to border patrol, by that definition, all are Godless.
I deny that. The founding principles our our nation are based on Judeo-Christian values from the Bible. Those prnciples are imbued into our Constitution. It is often denied by leftwing politicians and judges, but that doesn’t change the truth.
Those common American principles have been taught in public schools, and in at least some public schools, are still being taught. The military does not have to operate as the Salvation Army to be Constitutional. That does not make the military Godless. That is not it’s purpose.
Public school’s are not intended to be theological schools. Their basic purpose is to teach reading, writing, and math to our nation’s children so that they can function in business and in personal finances. I’m not denying that leftwing ideologues have attempted to sabotage that purpose. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. Only if we let them.
Our discussing this issue is, on a certain level, moot, because with Obama’s election and re-election, I fear that our county is a dead-man walking anyway. As a Christian I believe that we will not be tolerated in any area of public life or be permitted to speak our views in the very near future - in some places this is already the case.
So many Christians have abdicated to secularists our local, state, and federal governments. Many Christians have also done the same with our universities and our public schools. I once played one of the shepherds in a Nativity Play at my public school back in the 1960’s. That would not happen today because Christians have been so complacent about what is going on in government. Nearly 30% of evangelical Christians do not even vote.
So, have it your way, wintertime. Our government and all it’s institutions, by your view, were Godless to begin with. So what is the point of arguing over it.