RECONSTRUCTION THEOLOGY AND HOME EDUCATION [Rushdoony, HSLDA, Gary North]

Houston Unschooling Group ^ | 1999 | Mary McCarthy

[jmc813]

I see your point. I just don't see why this is as big of a deal as some FReepers make it out to be. I mean, there are racist parents who fill their kids mind with all kinds of garbage. However, it is their right to do so, and I tend not to really give a $hit about them.

[Lazamataz]

Same goes for Lazamataz.

I'll bet ya you get banned long before I ever do.

Say, speak kindly of any torturing governments today?

[ckca]

how it relates to the religious homeschooling phenomenon.

There is no relationship whatsoever. This is a hit piece, pure and simple.

Is there a connection

NO!

and, if so, should we be worried about the connection?

No, we should be far more concerned about the agenda of the POS who wrote this and the connection to that liberal, anti-Christian agenda of the POS who posted this.

I'm a Christian homeschooler active at the local and state level. NONE of the crap in this POS article has ever been discussed or even mentioned.

Its no different than the CBS hit piece on homeschoolers.

In fact its worse, because at least FReepers all know the CBS drivel was drivel

The fact that this is posted as something even worthy of discussion, and not seen for the anti-Christian DU troll garbage that it is, should cause you the most concern.

[jmc813]

Would you guys please quit bothering Jim. I'm pretty confident that he has more important things to worry about.

[Lazamataz]

Gary North is a religious kook.

Yeah, but I respect his allegience to Ronald Reagan. Besides, any LTC in the Marines is alright by me.

Oh, GARY North.

Never mind.

[Lazamataz]

Would you guys please quit bothering Jim. I'm pretty confident that he has more important things to worry about.

Well, one good KNOCK IT OFF generally cures most ills. :o)

[Matchett-PI]

"LaHaye .."

LaHaye is a sheep-shearing grifter-kook

[Lazamataz]

? Now ya done it. Ya sucked me into a thread about denominational infighting. Everyone's gonna look at me, go "There's a JOOOOOO...." and rush me. :o)

[malakhi]

Man, I can feel the love...

[malakhi]

This is an amazingly destructive slander, typical of the fever-pitched idiocy of those who don't know what they are talking about. Free Republic should not tolerate such insane postings.

Oh, the irony.

[Catspaw]

Everyone's gonna look at me, go "There's a JOOOOOO...." and rush me. :o)

Laz, you can't even join the club (well, unless you convert).

From the 2nd link in post #50:

All converted Jews and Gentiles stand on the same plane of blessing in God's sight, just as all unconverted Jews and Gentiles stand on the same plane of judgment in God's sight.

[Law]

Thanks for the ping.

[Law]

I thought this thread was a discussion of Christian Reconstructionism.

You're mistaken. This thread was designed to be a hit piece on conservative Christians. That's why from the very beginning the main posters don't discuss the article's contents but rather attack Christians. Here's a typical early post that illustrates the case:

These loons are more dangerous than al Quaida because they are hiding in our own institutions.

We need to work on getting them to drink their own Kool-Aid, and soon.

It's only after attacks like this that Christians such as ckca return fire.

[Law]

How nice. Christian "Wahhabi's".

Here's another example of the alleged "discussion" of Reconstructionism. See how it's just another attack on Christians?

[Catspaw]

It's only after attacks like this that Christians such as ckca return fire.

By being rude, dragging arguments from other threads, personally attacking another freeper and telling me to get lost, and telling me that more than once? ckca's words went way beyond inappropriate into abusive.

[Catspaw]

Do you agree with this statement? It's from a link in post #50:

All converted Jews and Gentiles stand on the same plane of blessing in God's sight, just as all unconverted Jews and Gentiles stand on the same plane of judgment in God's sight.

[Law]

More of the old familiar names.

Add in Roy Moore, or at least his lawyers:

This, also, isn't "discussion" but, rather, an effort to spread guilt by association.

[ckca]

OK, fine by me. I've accomplished my goals on this thread.

[Law]

Every religion has its mental marginals that wind up using it as a tool of destruction. This group are those kind of people. They don't worship their God, they worship their own psychosis.

More of the same fake discussion. All it is name-calling.

[RnMomof7]

There was a time when a freeper called Born again Christians "Tailborn again "

Rather interesting seeing it was Calvinists that believe in the sovereignty of God that formed the country you live in


From an old FR Post

I feel that I ought to point out that the majority of our nation's Christian founders/framers between 1775 and 1788 were Calvinists, not Arminians. ~~ Oh, absolutely not. The majority were Deists. There is a very great difference between a Deist and a Calvinist, but you can't possible know it with a working knowldge of history.


That's ridiculous.

Denominational Affiliations of the Framers of the Constitution
Dr. Miles Bradford of the University of Dallas did a study on the denominational classifications that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention accepted for themselves. Contrary to myth, the following list, published by Bradford, indicates that only 3 out of 55 of the framers classified themselves as Deists.

Note: only those Denominations whose Confessions of Faith were expressly Calvinistic at this time have been identified as "Calvinist" denominations. While many "Old-School" Lutherans and "Whitfield" Methodists at this time would have identified themselves with a Calvinistic view of Predestination, their affiliation has for the sake of charity been assumed to be non-Calvinist.

New Hampshire

* John Langdon, CONGREGATIONALIST -- Calvinist
* Nicholas Gilman, CONGREGATIONALIST -- Calvinist
Massachusetts

* Elbridge Gerry, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Rufus King, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Caleb Strong, CONGREGATIONALIST -- Calvinist
* Nathaniel Gorham, CONGREGATIONALIST -- Calvinist
Connecticut

* Roger Sherman, CONGREGATIONALIST -- Calvinist
* William Johnson, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Oliver Ellsworth, CONGREGATIONALIST -- Calvinist
New York

* Alexander Hamilton, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* John Lansing, DUTCH REFORMED -- Calvinist
* Robert Yates, DUTCH REFORMED -- Calvinist
New Jersey

* William Patterson, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist
* William Livingston, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist
* Jonathan Dayton, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* David Brearly, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* William Churchill Houston, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist

Pennsylvania

* Benjamin Franklin, DEIST
* Robert Morris, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* James Wilson, DEIST
* Gouverneur Morris, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Thomas Mifflin, QUAKER
* George Clymer, QUAKER
* Thomas FitzSimmons, ROMAN CATHOLIC
* Jared Ingersoll, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist

Delaware

* John Dickinson, QUAKER
* George Read, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Richard Bassett, METHODIST
* Gunning Beford, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist
* Jacod Broom, LUTHERAN

Maryland

* Luther Martin, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Daniel Carroll, ROMAN CATHOLIC
* John Mercer, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* James McHenry, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist
* Daniel Jennifer, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
Virginia

* George Washington, EPISCOPALIAN (Non-Communicant)
* James Madison, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* George Mason, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Edmund Randolph, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* James Blair, Jr., EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* James McClung, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist
* George Wythe, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
North Carolina

* William Davie, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist
* Hugh Williamson, DEIST
* William Blount, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist
* Alexander Martin, PRESBYTERIAN -- Calvinist
* Richard Spaight, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
South Carolina

* John Rutledge, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Charles Pinckney, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Pierce Butler, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* Charles Pinckney, III, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
Georgia

* Abraham Baldwin, CONGREGATIONALIST -- Calvinist
* William Leigh Pierce, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* William Houstoun, EPISCOPALIAN -- Calvinist
* William Few, METHODIST

Some may say, "well, this list only shows what churches these men were members of, it doesn't show what they believed." Which is a veiled way of suggesting that these men were liars when they swore to God to adopt the confessions of their churches when they became members of these churches (most churches back then required an "examination" of members when they were received into full membership).