Posted on 07/28/2002 3:29:38 PM PDT by ppaul
I have no argument with this. My problem is with the doctrinaire statement like "Christians who send their kids to public schools are commiting evil."
That's just balderdash. Compared to the things you can and should be doing for the religious and moral education of your children, "public school" is a pale shadow.
The problem isn't that kids are exposed to evil. The problem is they aren't properly prepared for the experience.
Did you actually read my post?
I thought I had my finger right on it.
LOL!
(Are you sure that we are more heavily armed than OPie?)
Your assumption that homeschooled children are "shut away from the world" is wrong, at least of the homeschoolers I know (and according to recent articles on homeschooling). Even 30-40 years ago, public school was the worst place to learn about acceptable behavior, and it is much worse now. Most kids in public school spend more waking hours under the influence of peers and bureaucracy, than they spend with either or both parents. Parents either go along with everything the kids pick up at school, or they are fighting a losing battle.
If parents want their children to attend public school, that is their business. Should the parents choose another path for their childrens' education, that is also their business. Both sets should pay their own way.
It would be silly for me to continue this conversation, because you are clearly too arrogant to even consider another opinion other than your own. Your argument has gaping holes in it, but you'll never see them because you're too full of yourself.
I have been called many things by narrow minded ideologues on this forum, but you are the very first to call my husband and me immoral for sending our kids to public schools. The inanity of that accusation should have kept me from even trying to have a rational dialogue with you. To you I'm just stupid and immoral, even though I have raised 4 children who will make this world a better place with their moral strength, courage, commitment and patriotism. You are, in a word, pathetic.
btw, please stop pretending that your very political opinion is backed up by Scripture. It isn't and even the most rudimentary study of Scripture should have told you that.
I'll give you three. There are plenty more, but I'll let you find them if you're interested.
Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest (Jesus Christ) who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are - yet was without sin........We are sinners. Jesus Christ is not.
I John 3: 4 & 5 Everyone you sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in Him is no sin.
Romans 3: 23, 24 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus
No preaching, just Scripture.
I'm going to ignore the fact that you said my husband and I were evil, because I'm sure you can't possibly really believe that. I would hope that since you posted that you recognize how twisted that kind of thinking is.
Of course, most FReepers, me included, respect you and your opinions. But it isn't an issue of respect, really. Our country has gone to hell in a hand-basket, for the most part, because for the last three decades, the majority of citizens have been indoctrinated in our government school system, in a philosophical mold based upon a Hellnistic model and the civil religion of our time, secular humanism. A Christian, or any conservative for that matter, has to be blind or totally ignorant not to see what effect all this has had on our society and culture. Have you ever listened to the Sean Hannity program, when he does his "man in the street" interviews? Most graduates of our government schools have no knowledge of our nation's history, it's founders, the core beliefs upon which our nation was founded. Instead, they have been indoctrinated in "tolerance" of perversion, worship of the earth, ecofeminism, you name it. It is not that you are not respected. It is that we're trying to effect a paradigm shift in our culture and society. The only way for that to really happen is for committed, courageous parents to remove their children from the propaganda mills. The government indoctrination system is too far gone. Throwing our precious little ones, the nation's future, into these cesspools is akin to throwing sheep into a pack of wolves. A decade ago, I might have been persuaded otherwise. No more.
Ahh, yes. But then a religious OPINION is just that - an opinion. And the government schools inculcate THIER opionions, their religion, if you will, into the little minds placed in their charge, which, for the most part, are opinions which run counter to the opinions of at least most FReepers, and undermine our free republic.
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