Posted on 08/26/2007 7:53:03 PM PDT by jern
Convinced that God has been erased from public schools, Southern Baptists are now working to open their own schools, where Jesus is writ large and Bible study is part of the daily curriculum.
Church leaders are not calling for a wholesale exodus from public schools, which would be a monumental hit, considering that Southern Baptists make up the nation's largest Protestant denomination with 16 million members.
Rather, they talk about alternatives to public schools capable of educating a new generation ready and willing to advocate for biblical principles rather than popular culture.
"In the public schools, you don't just have neutrality, you have hostility toward organized religion," said Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest. "A lot of parents are fed up."
Southeastern is leading the push, sponsoring a Christian School 101 workshop Monday and Tuesday. The program is designed to train church leaders to open private schools.
At Southeastern and elsewhere, Southern Baptists have become convinced that fighting to change the system is futile. They say public schools have long demonstrated a commitment to teaching evolution over creationism, world faiths over Christianity, sex education over abstinence, moral relativism over Christian claims of truth.
A history of alienation
The denomination's disenchantment with public schools is not new. It dates to the 1920s, when states debated the teaching of creationism vs. evolution. Evolution increasingly won, despite the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee, which gave the victory to creationists. The 1962 and 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decisions banning prayer and devotional readings from public schools only increased Southern Baptists' ire.
Since then, alienation with public schools has grown alongside the nation's culture wars, pitting evangelical Christians against secularists.
"Southern Baptists see the new religious establishment in this country as secularism,"
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Good for them.
here is a website that has supplements tailored to each of the “big three” biology school textbook’s sections on evolution. A student can just click on the picture of their textbook and it will take them to a series of word documents that can be downloaded, printed off, stapled together, and placed in their textbooks. That way, as each section is brought up in class they have material that gives the other side of the story...
http://www.textbookaccuracy.org
“Southern Baptists see the new religious establishment in this country as secularism,”
They’ve been turning a blind eye to it for a long time and they’re just now beginning to deal with it?
in the 70’s I went to a Baptist school, from First Grade to Seventh Grade. Bible study was a part of everyday class.
I hope that they do reopen schools. They should never have been closed.
I had my kids in a Baptist school 30 years ago.
"Southeastern seminary is fighting back. Ten years ago, it launched a master's degree program in Christian school administration to help train principals." A close reading of the article would have shown the quotation above. Not exactly "just beginning to deal with it".
bump
Separation of school and state BUMP!
This is awesome news!
Thirty years ago, I don’t think there were any Protestant Christian high schools here in NH. Now there must be 8 or 10 and it seems like another one opens every couple years. Between that and all the home schoolers, you’d think somebody might be getting a clue but I doubt if there’s a clue bat big enough to make some of the secular humanist/NEA/board of education establishment types ever figure it out.
Convinced that God has been erased from public schools, Southern Baptists are now working to open their own schools, where Jesus is writ large and Bible study is part of the daily curriculum.
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Good!
I hope the next step is to go to the voting booth and elect representatives who will permanently SHUT DOWN the Marxist infested government schools.
Many years ago, I started homeschooling because of an article I had read by Cal Thomas. He called for a mass exodus of kids of Christians from the public school system. His point was until they (the school system) realized they were going to lose students because of their actions, nothing would ever change. Now a dozen years later, it seems that the Baptists are waking up to that fact.
My nephew in Southern Missouri is Baptist, he has his young daughter in a Catholic school, that’s the only religious school available where he is. I applaud his good sense.
“My nephew in Southern Missouri is Baptist, he has his young daughter in a Catholic school...”
LOL
Wait’ll she comes home doing Hail Marys.
She’s been there two years already and she comes home telling him stories about Jesus.
Better late than never. The Lutherans and
Catholics have been doing this for years.
A key to defeating “the loyal opposition” is private, religious, home or voucher schools (with a conservative ) bent.
As an ex school teacher the libs go out of their way trash anything that is traditional american culture, conservatism or christian traditions.
Sounds like a damn good idea whose time has come.
the pastor and a few members of the Baptist church where some of my relatives go tried to start a private school. But there were a lot of members who are public school teachers and they raised such a stink that it never got off the ground.
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