Posted on 12/13/2020 5:51:10 PM PST by DeweyCA
So how do we explain this link between education policy and religious belief given that academic attainment itself isn’t a factor? It’s quite simple, really. Children learn more at school than reading, writing, and arithmetic. They imbibe a whole set of implied assumptions about what’s important in life. By excluding religious instruction from public schools, the government-run education system tacitly teaches students that religious commitments are not a first-order priority in life. Faith in God becomes a sort of optional weekend hobby akin to playing tennis or video games. Christ and Moses are treated by teachers and administrators like weapons or drugs — confiscated upon discovery.
In this way, the hierarchy of values communicated both explicitly and implicitly to students in American high schools excludes religious claims from the outset. College, career, and popularity become the existential targets toward which the arrow of each student’s soul is aimed by bow-wielding commissars across the country. In a context such as this, secularization becomes ineluctable. The New Testament itself says that religious belief is shaped more by the places we look for praise and validation than by naked ratiocinations: “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another, and you’re not looking for the glory which comes from the one and only God?” (John 5:44). But the secular public high school dispenses validation and praise according to different criteria than any of the major faiths. This is why government control of education has resulted in religious decline.
“...Parents can’t count on a couple hours of Sunday School with a youth pastor to counter the 40 hours of public schooling instruction, and then the added corresponding homework, that their kids get every week...”
That’s about the size of it.
It’s not the school - it’s the “parents”.
As long as we’re talking about God I’ll bring in the Catechism take it or leave it. It comes from the Bible. If you look up the paragraph you can find from where In the bible it is cited
Anyway it is both common sense and natural law
“Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. ...”
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This is utter BS. How many Freepers have raised godless and liberal children? I am sure there are a few as is happens in most families but I am willing to bet that most Freepers have raised children who reflect their beliefs.
If you fervently desire to teach your children to be God fearing a school will not stop you.
It starts with parents. Schools are secondary.
They are teaching polytheistic deist syncretism, a spin-off of moral relativism.
"Many roads to the mountain" and Kipling's poem about the blind men and the elephant come to mind.
But therein is the fallacy: Relativism is being taught as a moral absolute!
It goes deeper than that, to the churches themselves. Every major denomination in the US has been experiencing a schism between leftist-liberalism and conservative-traditionalism.
Churches with dominant leftist-liberalism in charge are driving away children and their parents in droves. And if they don’t have a conservative-traditionalist choice in their area, they often drop out of their religion altogether.
Among the Catholics, to a great extent it began with Vatican II. But the leftist-liberal infiltration began in the Protestant churches almost at the same time.
It has been going on for a long time, though. Some date the start of the schism to the end of WWII, and the near universal dismissal of the concept of an active, fiery Hell.
And the embracing of eastern religious concepts as well as mysticism.
The commercialization of Christmas - no mention of who’s birth we’re celebrating; you put Christ in Christmas and it’ll be banned.
I home-schooled my two. One from 3rd grade until 10 grade and then sent him to private Christian school through the 12 grade. The second one was home-schooled from K to 7. Then went to private Christian school and graduated from 8th grade. Allowed him to go to public high school. Big mistake. He now doesn’t believe in God, believes in global warming and thinks that COVID is going to kill us all, unless we all hunker down in our basements.
Many of us pulled our kids out to homeschool for this very reason. Public Schools are little Atheist, Transgender, homosexual, Godless factories. If you haven’t seen this by now, you are willingly ignorant
Leviathan is to blame for zillions of problems. And rightly so.
And there has been a coarsening in culture and a general rot settling in over 50+ years, which doesn't help.
But the buck stops with the parents.
Indeed, has anyone bothered to consider that MAYBE, Dad leaving Mom for a younger version should be rejected by friends and family, or Mom leaving Dad for a richer version should be frowned upon, or that Mom and Dad should be socially throttled for deciding the destruction of their children's mental safety is worth their own selfish, narcissistic desire for divorce? No wonder Johnny and Mary may begin questioning God...because their parents sure don't respect His Commandments.
I read a lot about the gays, and transgender people, and other related folks and how they are messing up our kids. Ok. But talk about divorce or despicable parents and how THEY screw up the kids whereby they turn to drugs or atheism, and all I get is a left-like stream of rationalizations.
I have a lot of trouble with the left, statists, and any yutz who wants to deprive me of life, liberty or property. They should be handled with great dispatch. But this quest of being a good American - and the primary belief that God exists and shield be the center of our lives - would be a lot easier if the selfish parents who elevate their needs above that of their children were shunned to oblivion.
The slippery slope began with the acceptance of artificial birth control and no-fault Divorce.
Oh that’s simple,
The belief in the One True God has been replaced by evolution.
If you look at school books from the 1900’s you would see God and the Bible everywhere.
After time the belief in God has been replaced by the belief in man....
Moral decay begins right there. And it's not new. Just more pervasive now in Western societies.
Even a separation of parents does not necessarily mean that children will be neglected and/or abused. It's just more likely.
And yes, my rant notwithstanding, I totally get that some marriages have a psycho in it.
But the "divorce in case of psycho" option seems to be used more for "she squeezes the toothpaste from the middle and I want her to roll it from the bottom, dammit."
Meanwhile we are treated to countless articles on how good divorce is for the kids. Uh huh. Anyone bother to ask the (atheist) kids?
It's almost like someone planned it this way...
In my neck of the woods, the Catholic Archdiocese was the first to start scheduling track meets, and sporting events on Good Friday. The Catholic Schools that didn’t participate forfeited, and we’re counted as losses.
Next, it was when the community children’s sports activities like little league, soccer games, etc started being scheduled on Sunday Mornings “because there aren’t enough fields for all the teams” to all play Saturdays, and Sunday afternoons.
This created a situation by pittng parents against kids as they were facing kids being kicked off teams, and kids facing the ire of their friends and team mates whose parents didn’t think Sunday School, or Church were more important than sports competitions.
I was dismayed 20 odd years ago when I saw this happening in the nearby, more “sophisticated” towns as mine was more conservative, and Churchy than those other towns, but it finally came here. This was a town where Sunday mornings, and Wednesday evenings never had sports activities because those were when people attended Church services.
Show me a child who eschews God and I'll show you a parent who is either an atheist or put shopping, drugs, alcohol, sex, or whatever ahead of their child.
Some kids are reslilient - their imploding household deepens their faith, either immediately or later in life.
Most kids are...well...kids. They are devastated - an adult can understand (usually) why God let's bad things happen to good people, but kids aren't that well-regulated.
I thought it was because when they found out there is no santa they just gave up on the whole deal.
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