The following are a couple of statements (of thousands that we could quote) stating publically and unashamedly the aim of the public education of our children:
“I think that the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny how to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition. The average American child now acquires a high school education, and this militates against Adam and Eve and all other myths of alleged history.” ~ P. Blanchard, “Three Cheers for Our Secular State,” The Humanist
“Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school’s meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?” ~ Humanism: A New Religion, 1930
It mystifies my brain that godly parents who long for their children to grow up filled with the knowledge of God’s Word and influenced by the power of the Holy Spirit are quite happy to send their children into the public education system which openly states their plan to turn the children away from God and the Bible. And they are becoming more and more blatant.
While the Bible is banned, the teaching of the Muslim religion is more and more being established in our schools. We long for our children to grow up living moral and pure lives, and yet alternative sexuality is proclaimed in our schools The gay lifestyle is becoming more and more entrenched as the homosexual agenda pushes it into the curriculum. And yet this is an abomination against God?
I can understand the ungodly being quite happy for their children to be influenced by this kind of education. But I cannot understand why the godly would do so. Many years ago Marin Luther said these words: “I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.”
Psalm 1:1-3 should be our testimony: “Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD: and in his law doth he mediate day and night.”
Be blessed today,
Nancy Campbell