Education – Iron Ink

So, You’re A Christian, And You Send Your Child To Government Schools?

File Under: Go ahead and ask me why I hate public schools;

Any time you hear the term “education reform,” it’s critical to recognize that a system built on a faulty foundation can’t be reformed. It can only be demolished and replaced with a legitimate and worthy alternative.

This is from the founder of modern public education:

“There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.”

John Dewey
“The father of modern education”
Teacher Magazine

1.) It is Dewey’s religion that is serving as the prop for the above statement.

2.) If you will have no props of traditional religion you will have the props of non-traditional religion. (Though Dewey’s Humanism might well be easily considered a “traditional religion.”)

3.) Dewey talks about “dogma and creed being excluded,” and yet this Dewey’s desire for dogma and creed being excluded is built on Dewey’s own dogma and creed.

4.) Is it an immutable truth here from Dewey that immutable truth is dead and buried?

5.) Is Dewey giving us a fixed natural law when he insists that there is no fixed natural law?

6.) Is Dewey’s statement above regarding no permanent moral absolute itself a permanent moral absolute? Is it a permanent moral absolute that there is no such a thing as permanent moral absolutes?

By all that is righteous all Christ haters are profoundly stupid … without exception.

Pronouns, School Districts, Courtrooms, & R2K

There is a major ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on both free speech and student rights. The court, sitting en banc, ruled 10-7 that “the mere use of biological pronouns does not entail ‘aggressive, disruptive action.’” In the lengthy opinion, the court split along political lines with every Republican appointee voting with the student challengers and every Democratic appointee voting with the school district.

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org

Seven judges actually voted to sustain the original Olentangy (Columbus, Ohio) school district ruling that the refusal to use the pronouns that insane people demand that other people use when addressing them was “aggressive, disruptive action.” The Olentangy school district, comprised also of insane people, made a ruling for their schools that faggoty pronouns had to be used if insane people wanted to be known by faggoty pronouns the opposite of non-faggoty proper pronouns. The pro-faggoty pronoun school policy included sanctions for any student who refused to use the preferred pronouns of transgender insane classmates. Such violations were deemed “contrary to the other student’s identity.” The first judge to hear the case upheld the policy of the Olentangy school district. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned the lower court and the original faggoty school policy.

Now there will be people who will be more offended by my use of the word “faggoty” then they are offended that a group of “professional” school personnel as well as the original Clinton appointed judge, as well as seven judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided to reinforce childhood insanity. To such people offended with me, all I can say is… “suck it up buttercup.”

The Olentangy school district now has the option of appealing to the SCOTUS.

Keep in mind that if your Pastor embraced Radical Two Kingdom theology he will never say a word about the error of this original Olentangy policy. If he were R2K and if the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit had ruled in favor of the school district he also would remain completely silent about this violation of God’s revealed law. The R2K Pastor would say; “Speaking on this is not in my lane as a minister and it would be sin for me to speak on it in my role as Pastor.

You tell me which is more insane… the Olentangy school policy on pronouns or the policy of Radical Two Kingdom theology.

Christianity, The Northwest Ordinance, and Government Schooling

“Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”

The Northwest Ordinance
Passed July 13, 1787

Those who passed the Northwest Ordinance knew what many if not most people have forgotten and that is that education by definition is as hopelessly about religion, and morality as it is about knowledge. There is no passing on knowledge, that isn’t at the same time a passing on of religion and morality. Each is bound up with the other and though distinctions might be made between the three, divorce between the three is impossible.

This means that when you send your child to Government schools you are sending your child to a place that not only is going to pass on knowledge to your child, but you are also sending them to a place that is going to pass on religion and morality to your child.

If you’re a garden variety heathen you don’t lose any sleep over that. If you’re a Biblical Christian the fright involved in thinking that your children would be indoctrinated against Christianity as a religion if attending a Government school will make your heart stop. Biblical Christians know that they could never send God’s offspring entrusted to them to educational establishments, run by the State, that are committed to overthrowing the knowledge, morality, and religion owned by the Christian parents.

Naturally, very few Government schools open classes with the teacher saying; “Today students we are going to learn why Biblical Christianity is not true.” It’s not the way the game is played. Instead, every book, every curriculum, every assignment, every lesson in Government schools is premised upon the fact that Christianity is not true. History is taught presupposing Marxist class conflict. Science is taught presupposing Evolutionary theorem. Philosophy is taught presupposing the humanist manifestos. Children attending public schools are children attending Government factories where the raw material are children and where the factory laborers working on the raw material (Teachers) are actors and agents of the State. The product these children factories are seeking to manufacture is an adult who has been trained to religiously and morally fit into a social order created by centuries of Government factories hardwiring anti-Christ religion, morality, and knowledge into centuries of students.

Folks are often discouraged by the state of the Christian church and the Christian clergy in America and the West but the reason for such a demise is found in the fact that the overwhelming percentage of “Christian” parents send God’s covenant seed that God gave them to raise in the fear and admonition of the Lord to the Government schools where the Government actors (Teachers) labor for 13 years to pass on religion, morality, and knowledge to children who were supposed to be reared “in the Lord.” It is silly to expect that the Church or clergy would be in any better of condition then it or they currently are given this ongoing cultural dynamic.

There are well intentioned people out there who want to reform the Government schools. This is a lost cause. Government schools cannot be Reformed until the Government that is running the Government schools is Reformed. The Government schools in the US cannot be Reformed. Instead they must be starved to death and the way that happens is by more and more parents (Especially Christian parents) refusing to send their children to the Government school factories. Only once the swamp of Government schools is drained can education hope to be Reformed in this country. Similarly, only once the swamp of Government schools is drained can the Church and clergy hope to return to a reinvigorated Christianity. Until such a time the faithful church remnant and the faithful Christian clergy are going to be continually dealing with a people sitting in the pews who are the expected humanist products of Government factories and Government agents (teachers) efficiently doing their jobs at creating humanist humanoids.

Scripture teaches; “As a man thinketh in his heart so he is.” Government schools run by agents of the State teach men and women to think in their hearts like Christ haters. The religion, morality, and knowledge these Government schools with their Government agents pass on to children rejects the religion, morality, and knowledge of historic Christianity.

As long as the Government schools stand the cause of Christ will be diminished.

Larry Arnn Goes Out Of His Way To Prove That Hillsdale College Is Not A Christian College

Larry Arnn (President of Hillsdale College) writes;

I appear to have made some people mad by saying a Christian nation is impossible.

Bret responds,

I really wasn’t one who was “mad.” I’d more characterize my response as “dumbfounded.” Dumbfounded that someone with this much education as Arnn has could say something both so profoundly dumb and profoundly errant. The passage he cited (John 18:36 – My Kingdom is not of this world) no more teaches that a Christian nation is impossible than it proves that a Christian college is impossible.

Larry Arnn writes;

Let me propose another formulation that I have used often and for years: America is the most Christian nation because it recognizes the principle of religious liberty, which comes from the mouths of the Founders and of Jesus himself, when he says that His kingdom is not of this world.

Bret responds,

Arn still refuses to give up the whole misinterpretation of John 18:36.

Second, America’s and the Founder’s original concept of religious liberty was not what Arnn is advocating for now. Remember, America’s original concept of religious liberty was that there would be no Nationally or Federally sanctioned Christian denomination but that States could themselves (and often did) have state sanctioned Christian denominations. States could be Christian states in the original America.

Does any one believe that Arnn would be OK with Michigan (where Hillsdale college is at) legislating that Presbyterianism was going to be the state approved Christian denomination?

In Larry Arnn’s world, America is a Christian nation precisely because it is not a Christian nation.

Larry Arnn writes,

At Hillsdale we believe that Jesus is the Maker and Savior of all.

Bret responds,

If what Larry reports above is true, then no Reformed person should be sending their children to Hillsdale college since such a confession is explicitly non-Reformed, and therefore non-Biblical. Jesus most certainly is not the Savior of all.

Larry Arnn writes

We also believe with the Founders that no law is good that compels anyone to believe that. Laws that compel belief are what led to centuries of religious persecution and warfare in so-called Christian Europe.

Bret responds,

I agree that no law is good that compels anyone to believe that Jesus is the “Saviour of All.”

Secondly, who has ever argued that statutory law could possibly ever compel someone to believe in Jesus? What straw-man is Arnn fighting against here?

Thirdly, I would recommend that Dr. Arnn read “The Myth of Religious Violence” by William T. Cavanaugh so as to disabuse himself of the idea of religious persecution and warfare.

Fourth, notice how Arnn labels, 1500 years of Christendom as “so-called Christian Europe.”

If you love your children you won’t be sending them to Hillsdale College.

The Bolshevik Communist Attitude Towards Family & Children

Recently, we had a chap on Iron Ink pressing for the legitimacy of Government schools. He even raised the issue of proper socialization that homeschooled children suffered from. Today, in my reading, I came across a quote that exposes the silliness of that position he was advancing;

“The Communists did not even intend to stop with this totalitarian political power; they aimed to destroy the family as the last possible bulwark against their mind control. By 1921, they were specifically planning to take children away from their parents at the age of four and place them in Communist boarding schools where they would be properly ‘socialized.’

Zlata Zinoviev, wife of the President of the Comintern, declared that year:

‘Is not parental love to a large extent harmful to the child? … The family is individualistic and egoistic and the child raised by it is, for the most part, anti-social, filled with egoistic strivings. … Raising children is not the private task of parents, but the task of society.’

Warren H. Carroll

The Rise and Fall of Communist Revolution – p. 147

1.) Parents, note that if you send your children to government schools you are indeed exposing them to statist mind control.

2.) Note that the goal of the Communist “schools” was to properly socialize the Soviet children. This remains the goal of the Government schools.

3.) There are very few legitimate reasons to put Christian children in the schools that belong to Baal.