For nearly 50 years now, the Christian Church has had decisions to make about whether to allow the continued façade of neutral education act as a justification for tithing their children to the humanist reality that is American education. Yet, the vast majority of Christians continue on in what is either complete ignorance due to their limp-wristed pastors and priests that refuse to state the truth of the matter, or they continue on in their rebellion choosing rather to “let them do the educating because we have bills to pay, and that’s why I pay my taxes to the school board!” [1]
Yet history is clear! Events of the past five years in general, and during and after the Covid Shutdowns even more illustrated the point as to the destructive nature of the modern educational system.[2] Whether it is the weaponizing of our children to become Marxist activists, or accusing students of being guilty wanna-be slave-holders if you are Christian, white and conservative – the public school system does it all. To add insult to injury is both the CRT (Critical Race Theory) and the Gender Transformation information being taught to young children as “normal” and “healthy.” Yet still the Church in America dithers about in the name of “diversity” and “inclusion” and a strange mindset that allows them to believe that their children are in school to “make a difference by being a light” in spite of how education really works, and the system behind it. [3]
Over half a century ago, biblical scholar R.J. Rushdoony pointed out the reality of statist education and what it would do to the nuclear family and society. [4] Yet people ignored him, or accused him of being an alarmist. Yet it bears repeating now that the chickens have come home to roost in 21st century America:
In modern education, the state is the educator, and the state is held to be the responsible agency rather than man. Such a perspective works to destroy the pupil, whose basic lesson becomes dependence on the state. The state, rather than the individual and the family, is looked to for moral decision and action, and the moral role of the individual is to assent to and bow down before the state. Statist education is at the very least implicitly anti-Biblical… [5]
Sadly, the governing authority and their bizarre agenda do not end with what is said in the classroom but have overreaching influence in the sociological realm as well:
The statist school, moreover, basically trains women to be men; it is not surprising that so many are unhappy at being women. Nor are the men any happier, in that dominion in modern education is transferred from man to the state, and man is progressively emasculated. The major casualty of modern education is the male student. Since dominion is by God’s creative purpose a basic aspect of man, any education which diminishes man’s calling to exercise dominion also diminishes man to the same degree. [6]
Decisions need to be made and made soon as to which America people want to raise their children in, and which “America” [7] they want their children to uphold and defend as stewards. To be sure, our history is not a perfect legacy, but a legacy for freedom nonetheless that has withstood the test of time for over 400 years since both the Jamestown and Plymouth settlements. One of the most profound legacies left by these early settlers was their commitment to the Christian faith, and their families and the education of their children as the true inheritance for the fledgling colonies and the communities within them. [8]
Again, Rushdoony is succinct in his biblical perspective on family and education:
It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short of time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the child, discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the child which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man. [9]
It is time that believers become intellectually honest as to what is going on in the public school system and engage in an exodus that is not only moral, but intellectual as they commit themselves to being faithful to the task that fathers and mothers have been given by God to train their children rightly (Proverbs 22:6).
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[2]https://www.garynorth.com/public/18741.cfm
[3]https://www.takimag.com/article/a-new-dawn-the-end-of-legal-discrimination/
[4] R.J. Rushdoony, The Messianic Character of American Education, (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1963).
[5] R.J. Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law, (Nutley, N.J. Craig Press, 1973),p. 184.
[6]Ibid, p. 184.
[7]https://www.acton.org/audio/are-we-nation
[9]Ibid, p. 185.