“Because our government schools are, by law, atheistic and secular humanist in their educational philosophy and godless in their worldview. Therefore, when presenting all subjects God is ignored. Do this day after day, and children learn to ignore God.”
Aren’t you better able to teach your kids about God than the schools? What faith should the public schools teach?
Government schools must be shut down because they can NOT be religiously neutral. No school is religiously neutral.
Please try to follow me here:
No school is religiously neutral. It is impossible. This is axiomatic.
Why?
Reason: The school must choose between having either a godless worldview or a God-centered worldview. It must choose one or the other. The worldview chosen ( godless of God-centered) will NOT be religiously neutral in either content or consequences.
Obviously, if a God-centered worldview is chosen, then we have the obvious problem of whose God-centered worldview. The state would be establishing a particular sect of religion.
If a godless worldview is chosen, then God is ignored. By doing this the state is establishing atheism as a religious philosophy. The state is teaching children how to think about everything taught in school from a godless perspective. The state is literally teaching children to ignore God, and giving them practical daily lessons on how to live without God in their lives. This isn't religiously neutral either!
I will give you a few examples from my own Catholic education:
In studying **all** literature, we examined where the Commandments had been broken and how the conflict may have been avoided by simply living the commandments, and following the principles taught in our catechism. Examples from the lives of the Saints were liberally applied when appropriate. We learned to integrate our faith into essence of our thinking about **everything**!
In a school with a godless worldview ignoring all of this has just as many religious consequences as including it.
In science and math, the nuns at appropriate times made certain that we understood that math and science was a creation of a **rational** God. Studying the sciences and math gave us a glimpse into the mind of God. It was our responsibility to be as educated as possible so that we could use this information to bless our fellow man ( literately, our brothers and sisters who were also children of God.)
Again, to ignore the above in a school with a godless worldview has just as many non-neutral religious consequences as including it would.
Aren’t you better able to teach your kids about God than the schools?
The best way to teach about God is to have it thoroughly and completely integrated into the child's entire life in an appropriate manner. This means seamlessly integrating it into a child's schooling, as well.
Government schools must be abolished because it is NOT religiously neutral to teach children how to think godlessly, and then ask parent to both unteach these godless habits and patterns and then attempt to teach in a few hours in the evening what should have been part of the child's entire day.
Fundamentally, government schools are a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination!
I have given you the benefit of the doubt and I have given you a thoughtful and polite response. I am assuming that you are not a troll. By your response ( if you make one) I will know if you are troll or not.
I know kids who have gone to Christian school and still walk away from God. It’s really sad when even pastor’s kids do the same. It’s not that they haven’t heard the Word, but many times it’s just young people wanting to find out truth for themselves. They also often listen to their unbelieving friends. I think it’s a mixture of things. The world attracts them as well.