It’s back to school time. Which means big decisions, or non-decisions for parents. How do I educate my child, or who is going to babysit them while I do more important things? The reality is, if you don’t make the tough decision, someone else will. On this planet the default position is evil.
My first day of Government Kindergarten. Shortly to be followed by first curse words, first pornography and first punch in the face and constant lies about my Creator.
As a Christian in this world we are told that we war against principalities and powers (Ephesians 6:12), that is philosophies or ideas that are contrary to the Kingdom of Heaven. It has been noted that there are two different ways of doing this. You can reproduce yourself sexually by having children or by spreading Christianity through evangelism. Initially there was a huge influx of Christians as evangelism spread through the Roman Empire. Later after the early stages were worked out, after Christendom defeated Rome with humble service, a respect for life, the poor and care of the helpless and elderly, Christendom realized the importance of reproducing yourself through large families.
Today this is not the case as birthrates in the west are barely at replacement. But the principalities and powers have figured it out. Muhammedan children are almost 100% Muhammedan, culturally, religiously and philosophically and they have a lot of kids. They either directly or indirectly support those men you see on TV with the explosive vests. They reproduce sexually and their easy, tribal, heaven-will-fulfill-all-your-lusts religion allows them to reproduce through evangelism.
In this country the rise of anti-Christian, Atheism or Agnosticism is unquestionable. But these are the people who support abortion, homosexuality and unmarried promiscuity, so how are they reproducing? If they do happen to have a kid they kill it before it is born, so how can they be growing? It’s easy they convert your kids. Christians seem all to happy oblige them. They put in all those years of hard work and then just hand their children over to these people. The three main handovers take place in Kindergarten, in 9th Grade, and in College. Most Christian parents just go with the flow and hand over their children in Kintergarten. Many parents believe that their children are fine after jr. high, a few less parents hold out until College. But the statistics are clear, there are sharp spikes at each of these times of Children outright rejecting their faith. This is not to mention the vast majority who do not, yet have taken in the religion of these principalities and powers in all but name. And then Christian parents shrug and say “oh well”, “you never know”, “I did my best”.
It’s tragic, it pains me greatly every time I see pictures of sweet little children full of so much promise, full of the faith of their parents, sent off to be destroyed. When will they first be exposed to the foul language? When will they first be exposed to drugs? When will they first be exposed to pornography? Not to mention the physical violence and the mental violence of the lying ideologies of the world. I can tell you the first time will be before they are ready, just like the Man and the Woman in the garden grasping for what they can’t handle instead of wisely waiting for God’s timetable. Cursed above all men are you who allow it to happen! (Matthew 18:6)
This isn’t our best, this is being lazy. I know education is expensive, I know the peer pressure from friends and family is difficult. I know that humbly admitting that you didn’t turn out fine and that you want something better for your child is tough. I know the boats, ATVs and vacations are appealing. But what should be more appealing is a future where our Children can claim more of this Earth for the Kingdom. Where, Christendom continues it’s march across the globe, curing disease, and hunger as far as the curse is found. It’s that stanza from Joy to the World that we always leave out:
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.
It is astounding that this must be said, it seems so obvious. It’s all in Psalm 1, or Jesus (Luke 6:40) a student is not unlike his teacher. Every religious group throughout time has started schools to train up people in their faith. The public schools in this country started as a response to the growing number of Catholic schools. The majority of the country was Protestant so the public schools were Protestant Christian schools. But of course they became watered down, it was no surprise. There is no such thing as democratic schools, which honor the name of Jesus. Men like R. L. Dabney predicted, in On a Secular Education: “All prayers, catechisms, and Bibles will ultimately be driven out of the schools.” Today we don’t even know what catechisms are and Bibles and Prayer were gone long ago. The belief that education is neutral, and non-religious is nothing more than Agnosticism, that is the un-Christian belief that we can’t know anything about God. Education is religious, how can it not be? It matters to every subject if Jesus is Lord. Science would not exist without the Christian understanding that God created this world and that it operates by his consistent faithfulness, ordered by the standard of his character. History is the story of how he works mercifully on this earth. Literature is the use of the Word, which John tells us is Jesus the Christ. Math is the use of numbers to express the ordered world that God created. Philosophers have often marveled at how it is possible that we can come up with formulas for this world and they actually work, as Einstein said “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
Tyrannies don’t take easily to being destroyed, whether it is the Roman Empire or the modern educational machine. Educating your child yourself is expensive, we are essentially paying for it twice. Once through the immoral confiscation of property taxes and a second time as you pay a private school or buy materials yourself. But what is more expensive is the cost of throwing away civilization and the promise of tomorrow for the comforts of today. There is big money in education. The teachers unions are one of the biggest unions, they take in millions of dollars and hire tons of lobbyists to maintain their monopoly on education. Ladder climbing, even at the local level, would make Wall Street fat-cats blush. The Department of Education does not educate one person, it is government for the sake of government. You might think that it’s ok because your child’s teacher or principal is a Christian. With all this money comes strings, strings that bind the Christian in the system to act like a non-Christian. I can tell you countless stories. It’s a sinking ship, we need to flee, let it sink and force the world to come to us to do things right. This is the way the world has always worked.
Changing things will be difficult. It will take time. It will take sacrifice. Like all things good. This is what the founders realized as the tyranny of George III began to come down on the Colonies. Those men pledged their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor. Today we don’t really need to go so far. We might pledge our speed boats, tropical vacations and dream home, but it’s not really that bad. The hardest part is the humility, going against the flow, repenting and going the other direction. We still enjoy the benefits of their Christian labor, we have it very good. But the future will not be so bright if we continue to hand our children over to the principalities and powers.
It’s easier than ever these days, there are so many good resources.
Still not Convinced?:
Excused Absence, Douglas Wilson
None Dare Call it Education, John Stormer
The Underground History of American Education, John Taylor Gatto
Curriculum:
I wish I could recommend any local schools but I really can’t. I hear there is a Classical Conversation co-op and other such things. But the principalities and powers have won this one.