There are many Christians who are champions of the unborn. I salute them all. But there is a problem that is more fundamental in our country and in our Churches than the scourge of Abortion and that is the sending of our covenant children to government schools.
The reason that this issue is more important than abortion and has a greater need to be spoken to than abortion is that government schools are the institution that is creating a citizenry of moral zombies wherein a climate can thrive that can support abortion. The ascendancy of different forms of outcome based education with its value neutral emphasis and cultural Marxist origin is driving the creation of a citizenry that either supports or turns a morally tin ear to the cries of the weakest among us. If we want to stop abortion, we must, at the very least, separate the schools from State control, or failing that we must remove the children from the schools.
The State schools are serving as the Church of Humanism. If you want to stop the agenda of Humanism, which includes Abortion, you must attack the root of the matter. Stopping abortion by means of legislation, without changing the government school culture, is like picking off leaves of a Kudzu plant. The triumph is only momentary as the vine eventually grows with even more rapidity. To stop Kudzu you must kill it at the root. To stop abortion you must kill it at the root — the root is government schools. Either remove the State control of the government schools with its humanist agenda or remove the students from government schools and ending abortion will be a task that is suddenly more achievable. Fail to change the government school culture and we will be picketing abortion clinics for the next 75 years.
So to all you abortion warriors out there, if you are really serious about ending abortion then read up on what is going on in government schools and turn your artillery in that direction.
Bret,
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Our work is to be done from the ground up.
Jesus is our Lord who makes and keeps promises. He is YHWH. It is impossible for Jesus to lie (Heb 6:18). He also tells us that His word is true (Ps 119:160) (Jn 17:17).
We are given a promise in the Scriptures regarding the education of our children in Pr 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. In Deut 11:13,18-21 God tells us to obey Him and He makes a promise 13 ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,…….. 18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. If we give our children a godly education and worldview we will be blessed by His blessing ours and their future. Remember, God’s promises are unto “thousands of generations, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
In Luke 6:39-40 Jesus makes this statement Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch? 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher. Now the context here is one of teaching others. Jesus is asking how I can lead my brother out of error if I haven’t taken care of my own problems yet. I will lead my brother into my own error. These are very true words when it comes to education of our children also. If our children are taught godly values and a godly worldview they will follow that path (Ps 119:105). If our children are taught a blind or false worldview they will turn out in that fashion because in actuality in our public schools the worldview or agenda is the teacher. It doesn’t matter how nice the person teaching is or even if they believe in God but what matters is that they are to instill a Godless worldview into the children. Children are to be trained to hold to a worldview which Jesus says in this same context will cause their house to collapse. 46 “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? 47 Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.[a] 49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell.[b] And the ruin of that house was great.”
Now given these promises and those in Ps 78:1-7 why would we want to send our children to a public school. His blessings are greater than we can imagine. Blessed are all those who kiss Him and put their trust in Him.
Jerry,
You are correct. What I hope is that those who are radically adamant against abortion will realize that they are spinning their wheels a bit by concentrating so much on abortion. They need to spend their efforts on either getting the state out of the education business or pressing people to realize what is going on in these little shop of horrors.
Also, per your comments I wish people would think about how we as Americans do missions. I am convinced that in much of our Missionary effort in America we are sending out a diseased product that if successful will disease the host church we are seeking to plant.
Oh no you didn’t! That last sentence will get you some hate mail. Let it come – truth is hard at times.
David,
I won’t get any hate mail for the following reasons,
1.) People have to read the site to be offended
2.) People who have been offended have long given up the site
3.) People realize that this is a “no chintzy arguments allowed” zone. People know the offering up of bad arguments here will get a polite correction the first time and if insisted upon they will get get more (or less, depending on how you look at it) than a polite argument the next time.
4.) The first rule of thumb in politics is never draw attention to your enemies by criticizing them if nobody is paying any attention to their criticism of you.
I must have gotten the bold code wrong. It was only supposed to be around the Scripture quotes.
As usual, you are right, Bret. The government indoctrination centers are preaching a gospel of selfishness which leads to a promotion of abortion.
Brother Bret:
Did any of the Mr. Softies over at Green Baggins ever bring forth a cogent rejoinder to your comments on about the impermissability of government education?
The interrelation of abortion and government education is interesting at several levels, one being the fact that the same kind of garbled/gumbled logic cited to defend the one, is often used to defend the other. Hence, Darryl “don’t confuse me with genuine Reformed thought and praxis” Hart can opine that “it’s the parent’s decision.” What does this mean, but precisely what it means in the case of the abortion advocate: “It’s the woman’s decision” (ie, “don’t get off telling me that there is prescriptive Word from God on this matter”).
The Reformed church in the USA is toast provided such inanity continues, as well it should be….
Elder Hoss,
Their is no strength in Israel. At least not in that tribe.
The well has been infected in the Reformed Seminaries and so the fountain of men produced are what they are. As long as guys like Muether, Hart, Clark, Horton and others are teaching the Reformed Church is Ichabod.