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Early in May, Renee in Ohio of Howard Empowered People posted this entry titled, “Blackwell’s “Patriot Pastors”: Must-see video.” In the video, one of the Patriot Pastors recounts four specific reasons why public school education is evil and implicitly urges that good Christians would be better Christians if they pulled their kids from public school (at least until they can make public school as religious as, well, Christian parochial schools, which will only happen over my dead body, which I almost was yesterday because of yet another incident in a string of subtle incidents in my own district that undermine my ability to be a Jew here – more on that later, if I can get up the gumption).
Now comes this news story from California:
Christian parents are being urged to get their kids out of public schools, even though the school year has already started.
Charles Lowers, who heads a ministry called Considering Homeschooling, warns that “the very soul of your child is at risk.”
He says the vast majority of Christian children who attend public schools lose their faith.
Lowers and other advocates for Christian homeschooling say parents shouldn’t delegate their God-given responsibility to “raise up a child in the way he should go” to godless schools with an increasingly anti-Christian curriculum.
Read the full article here and more about Considering Homeschooling. The full article includes Lowers’ assertions that,
“Public school is no place for innocent little kids. If they don’t get molested by the John Karrs who are in the system, their minds and hearts will be molested by the curriculum,” he said.
“Instead of the traditional three R’s in California’s public schools, children are learning Rebelliousness, Relativism, and an R-rated lifestyle,” he said.
Three thoughts:
1) If a parent really feels that way, then by all means, homeschool or find a parochial school that meets your needs. And, sincerely? Thank you for not trying to inject religion into the public schools.
2) Re-name the Ohio Restoration Project the California Restoration Project.
3) Let the Project and all its followers seek secession from California so that they can create a Christian monarchy, dictatorship – whatever it is that they truly desire. Believe me, I do not want to be looked at as someone in their way, because I don’t like feeling that anyone is in my way. So, if you cannot live among others who believe differently from you, then by all means, surround yourself only with people like you.
That makes no sense to me. But, apparently, it’s what some people want and advocate.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:35 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics
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If people want to home school, that’s fine. I also agree that if people want religion in school, make it a private, not a public undertaking.
I have been very frightened lately by the Character City program, essentially run by an evangelist named Bill Gothard. Many city councils have named their cities Character cities. (Cincinnati is one.) Who, after all, can complain about 49 character traits that are pushed. If one investigates, however, one can find the connection between the Character program and evangelism. It is part of the Christian Reconstructionist movement.
See what one observer had to say: “It is for all intents and purposes a ‘secular’ front group. It (CTI) has quietly gained entry into hundreds of elementary, middle and high schools, state and city offices, corporations, police departments and jails.”
Take a look at http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2450/ It’s eye-opening and frightening.
49 character traits? Sheesh. I’d like to see someone do a matrix of just how many of those are possessed and demonstrated by our current executive branch leaders.