Posted on 09/11/2024 11:21:40 AM PDT by Morgana
Stefani McDade, a cronie of Russell Moore—both of whom seem to have taken up residence as thought-leaders in leftist Christianity—has been named the “theology editor” at Christianity Today. Yes, that Christianity Today—once a respectable outlet for serious Christians but now a glorified progressive mouthpiece masquerading as a platform for the faithful.
McDade recently published an article and then took to Twitter/X to endorse one of the most foolish, irresponsible ideas a professing Christian could have, shipping your children off to public schools.
In her tweet, she equates public schools with “strength training” for children’s faith, urging parents to let their kids “wrestle” with worldly counter-narratives while under their care.
A lovely sentiment, no?
But let’s be real—this is about as well-thought-out as sending lambs into a den of wolves and calling it “strength training” for the lambs. McDade, and her ilk—people like Russell Moore, David French, Mike Cosper, and every other wolf in sheep’s clothing trying to convince Christians that their kids need exposure to secular indoctrination camps—are deeply confused at best, and dangerous at worst.
McDade’s tweet reeks of the same soft-minded, progressive theology that has infected so much of the church today. “Let them wrestle with worldly counter-narratives,” she says. Right. Because five-year-olds are just so adept at dismantling the deeply insidious ideologies being fed to them by the pervs that man the classrooms.
These children walk into these rainbow-splattered classrooms with leftist propaganda hanging all over the place and are enamored by the deceptive image it portrays. To Kindergarten children, rainbows are pretty and attractive—but to the purple-haired trans-woman in the classroom, it means “I’m queer, that’s normal, and celebrate it with me.”
These aren’t “counter-narratives,” Stefani. They’re full-on indoctrinations—an all-out assault on Christianity—and simple decency, for that matter—aimed directly at children and undermining the very faith she claims to care about. But hey, at least your kids will learn how to color inside the lines while they’re being brainwashed.
Of course, McDade drags out John 17:15 to justify her nonsense. Jesus’ prayer, she argues, shows that Christians are meant to stay in the world but be kept from the evil one. Yes, because what Jesus really meant was, “Hey, make sure your toddlers go toe-to-toe with militant Marxist ideologues, radical gender activists, and teachers who think CRT is a sacrament.”
McDade is grossly out of her depth here—Jesus’ prayer was for His disciples, mature believers who were being sent into the world as the light of the gospel. He wasn’t talking about children—He wasn’t commissioning your six-year-old to be a missionary in the second-grade classroom where pronouns and gender fluidity are discussed more than arithmetic.
The irony, of course, is that the very adults McDade is preaching to—the very ones she expects to buy into her ridiculous idea—can barely defend their own faith against these ideologies. Let’s not kid ourselves. The LGBTQ movement, transgender theory, Marxist underpinnings in education, racial ideologies, the pro-abortion movement—most Christian adults can’t even muster a coherent response to these tidal waves of godless thinking. So what, exactly, makes McDade think a child is prepared to engage these demonic ideologies with any success?
Imagine strapping a backpack onto your child, giving them a pat on the head, and saying, “Good luck in the Marxist gulag, sweetie. Wrestle with those counter-narratives!”
It’s lunacy.
And yet, that’s precisely what McDade is advocating—except, of course, she dresses it up with all sorts of progressive, high-sounding nonsense about “wrestling” and “strength training.” In reality, it’s child sacrifice—only instead of fire and idols, it’s a classroom filled with secular humanism and rainbow flags.
Let’s not miss the broader agenda here. McDade, Moore, French, and the rest of the progressive Christian cabal are hell-bent on deconstructing the biblical family. And why not start with the most vulnerable?
Why not convince parents that the best way to “protect” their children is to expose them to the very ideologies that seek to destroy the gospel? Why not push the idea that “protecting” children is actually a form of cowardice, and real faith means throwing them into the lion’s den and calling it “discipleship”?
It’s a bait-and-switch tactic designed to groom the next generation of leftist Christians—people who have just enough faith to keep them feeling spiritual but not enough to oppose the world.
In the end, McDade’s suggestion isn’t just wrong-headed—it’s a full-blown disaster waiting to happen. Public schools today aren’t the neutral grounds she pretends they are. They are war training camps of radical secularism, dedicated to indoctrinating children in every godless ideology under the sun.
We aren’t talking about simply learning to “coexist” with non-believers. We’re talking about a full-frontal assault on the very concept of truth, all under the guise of “education.”
If McDade truly cared about the gospel—or children—she wouldn’t be shipping them off to these indoctrination centers. She’d be sounding the alarm, warning parents of the very real dangers that await their kids in these schools.
Instead, she plays right into the leftist playbook, offering up Christian children on the altar of inclusivity, equity, and tolerance, all while quoting Scripture. It’s as dishonest as it is dangerous.
The reality is that sending your children to public school is not “strength training”—it’s spiritual suicide. And Stefani McDade, with her bent for “progress,” is little more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing, trying to convince you that the wolves in the public school system are really just fluffy little puppies who want to help your kids grow in faith.
Sending one’s child to publik skoolz is child abuse.
Period.
The bimbo has a web page. She’s an expert Christian. Just all she’ll tell you! And she loves refugees!
https://www.stefanimcdade.com/
Im wondering if she has kids. If she does, this article means she likes dumping them so she can focus on her career as a professional Christian.
The answer is to build the culture you want to live in, don’t be a mere consumer of mass culture. Build the school you want for your kids whether in your own home or through your church. She wants people to just passively accept whatever slop mass culture shovels out, because she accepts it and can’t envision anything better.
That’s weird for someone in “Christian” media.
A couple from our son’s church in Bend was informed that based on a survey given to entering middle school children, their son could benefit from the LGBTQ club. They were called repeatedly and always refused. Finally, they asked if they could visit a club meeting and see the curriculum. The school answered no to both requests. The next call was from the State of Oregon expressing their concerns. The couple immediately quit their jobs and moved out of the state. My son visited a middle school and saw ubiquitous posters carrying inspirational affirmations of gender fluidity to support a pattern of “grooming”.
The library at Lincoln City proudly proclaimed on their website “A gender affirming closet” at Taft High. Now students will be able to choose clothes, makeup, and accessories to express themselves at school even though parents do not support those choices. Notice this information comes from the coast and central Oregon and not from the liberal enclaves found in Portland, Eugene, or Ashland. I noted such public disclosure contradicts the approach taken by other states that transmit to their schools’ ways to shield parents from knowing the steps being taken. I have a screen copy from the link, which is now dead.
Here's Why You Should Lawyer-Up Before Sending Your Kids Back to School
https://pjmedia.com/columns/megan-fox/2022/09/06/the-most-important-back-to-school-tool-you-need-is-a-lawyer-n1627000
Parents don't give it a second thought, they are warehousing the children and have no idea what the kids are learning, what they're not learning, who influences them educationally and socially, who actually shapes their beliefs and values. They do care enough to stand guard with their offspring at the bus stop, which amazes my dad. He says this never happened when he was a student, and would have been mortifying if anyone ever tried it.
I hold a Master of Letters in Analytic & Exegetical Theology from the Logos Institute of St. Mary’s College at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The research topic and title of my dissertation was “Christification as Imitative Participation: Incarnation, Kierkegaard, & the Christ Hymn.”
https://www.stefanimcdade.com/
Christianity Today is comically anti-Christian. If it were 400 years ago they would be editorializing that the Ottoman Empire invading Christian villages, kidnapping Christian boys, indoctrinating them into Islam and sending them to kill Christians is actually a good thing.
The magazine, Christianity Today, is evidence of the adage that any institution not specifically conservative will sooner or later be taken over by liberals That pattern has been going on for a very long time. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were founded as specifically Christian colleges, basically Bible colleges.
Sorry, not being a mohammedan I am not in favor of child solders.
The Quislings and the Janissaries
And it fell out upon a day that the happy marchers paused to note another camp, the Noble Quislings. And in turn each Quisling took his tiny son, and took his little daughter, and sent them off to war. “We must win this war,” the Daddy Quisling said, “So you must be sure to wear this helmet.” And he did place a helm upon the child’s head, made of the best papier-mâché, and adorned with a brightly painted target. “And take this noble sword with you to the battle front,” the Daddy Quisling said, “that you might slay the giants there.” And he did arm his son or daughter with a little cardboard dagger. “Now go and fight!” he said, and sent the child off to the east. Samuel looked west, and saw something that the Daddy Quisling failed to notice: a real janissary army amassing behind the Quisling’s camp, comprised of Quisling children, now fully grown, now fully armed, now fully allied to the enemy, and things did not look good.
And he heard a great voice out of heaven saying, “Let the dead bury the dead. The living have work to do.”
Which being interpreted means ...
The Quislings give aid and comfort to our local enemy of God and man. In religious eras, Satan appears to people as an angel of light, or an ethereal Blessed Virgin. In the crass secular America of our day, Hell’s agents do not roar out of a cloud of dust wearing chrome and leather to carry off our teenage daughters on their Harleys. Rather, we docilely hand over our impressionable five-year-old children to the suave servants of an implacable anti-Christian religion for most of the waking hours of their childhood. We beg these tools of Caesar to raise our children to see the world through godless eyes, as a place where the God of the Bible has no say. We render unto Caesar that which is God’s, the children He entrusted to our care.
Socialism is a parasitic ideology that can only work, as the late Dame Margaret Thatcher put it, “until you run out of other people’s money to spend.” Yet the secular American order relies upon a steady supply of something even more precious than money – the hearts, minds, souls, and ultimately the bodies of our children. This subsidy defers the day of reckoning, even as American money resuscitated the Soviet empire time after time. Secular humanism asserts that there is nothing ultimately worth living for. Only children raised to believe otherwise can bring a note of cheer and hope and energy into those Stalinist kiddy prison camps – at least, until the day when they, too, succumb to the despairing presuppositions of those who seek to live, think, and teach without God. There are reasons why, after abortion, suicide is a leading killer of our children.
There's more where this came from!
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CT is anti Christ
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