The Baptist and Public Education

 The following is an article from evangelist Ted Alexander and my Pastor Matt McPhillips , check out his website, the link is provided on the side bar, truth in theology.








04/01/2010                                                       

Why I wouldn’t send Tony’s favorite coon dog

to a government-run school!

by Pastor Matt McPhillips

Edited by Ev. Ted Alexander

• “Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is 16 (today it is 18) tends to lean toward the elimination of religious superstition” (Paul Blanchard, designer of American education system, signer of Humanist Manifesto).
• “In our dreams people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folks” (John D. Rockefeller).

BUT GOD SAYS -

“Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the

words of knowledge.” (Prov. 19:27)

          In the past few years I have noticed a trend that could prove to be very damaging to Baptist families if not reversed. It seems that some Fundamentalist preachers are advocating that we send our saved children to the world for their early-life education. It does not alarm me when the Devil attempts to get our children, he is supposed to; that’s his job. It does not alarm me when the state attempts to steal custody of our children, they are so misguided and lost that we can expect nothing else. However, when well known “camp-meeting” preachers, who have a large following of star-struck fans at their meetings, attempt to sell this kind of anti-biblical advice from the pulpit, I find it utterly sickening. Before you reject the Bible mandate to “train up a child,” consider the following truths:

1. The Bible clearly forbids Christians from submitting to the false humanistic, atheistic, evolutionary indoctrination of government schools.
*Psalm 1:1 is a powerful verse that teaches how foolish and irresponsible it is for Christians to seek or listen to the counsel of the ungodly. “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” It is clear that God says it is foolish for the believer to listen to the counsel of the ungodly, or to spend time in the path of sinners, or to dwell in the seat of the scornful. Today, there are many that think we should have our children, God’s heritage, under the teaching, direction, and mocking of the ungodly in the government school system. This issue is not a matter of my opinion versus another’s opinion, but it is one that is to be decided based on Scripture.
*Romans 16:19 teaches us to be wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. One cannot deny that the government school system is filled with evil and evil is promoted as an acceptable way of life (proms, day of silence for sodomites, sex education classes, etc., etc., etc.).
*Proverbs 1:7 teaches us that all knowledge begins with a fear of the Lord. Our government school system is not based on a fear of God, but instead is based on secular humanism. Based on this fact, they cannot even begin to impart true knowledge!
2. The government schools are in existence to indoctrinate, not to educate. This is not my opinion; consider the following from the horse’s mouth!
*“Education is the most powerful ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for one hour a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of a five day program of humanistic teaching?” (Charles Potter, father of the American education system, defender of John Scopes, signer of the Humanist Manifesto).
*“Public education is the parochial school of scientific humanism” (Joel Burnette, signer of Humanist Manifesto, leader in the American school system).

*Anyone who tries to state that the government school system is not a danger to raising a godly heritage is either ignorant of the history of the government school system, or unwilling to study the Scriptures to find God’s opinion instead of man’s opinion.

*Consider the command to “be not conformed to this world” in Romans 12, and then read the following:

• “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause” (Horace Mann, father of American school system).
• “Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth” (John Dewey, architect of the American school system, signer of Humanist Manifesto).
• “The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent” (John Dewey).
• *Beyond this, the “dumbing down” of America has happened through these same schools.
• “Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over education from happening. The average American should be content with their humble role in life, because they’re not tempted to think about any other role” (William T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education).
• “When an opponent declares, I will not come over to your side, I calmly say, your child belongs to us already. What are you? You will pass on. Your descendents, however, now stand in a new camp. In a short time, they will know nothing else, but this new community” (Adolf Hitler).
• Some may think this is an extremist view of the power of education, but listen to the late President Woodrow Wilson, “Education is where we teach young people that their fathers were wrong.”
• * From science to history, to behavior, to athletics, to dating, to morals, the government school system is contrary to truth, and thus we are commanded to avoid it!
•  “I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly view their role as the proselytizers of a new faith. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new; the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism. Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as a teacher to make all of these sick children well, by creating the international children of the future” (Dr. C.M. Pierce, Harvard University, speech to teachers at a convention).

3. We should take note that the majority of Christians rejected the government school system for many years. Up until the 1900’s 2/3’s of all graduates were not from government schools but from home schools. These home schools produced men like Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Edison, etc.

• A.A. Hodge stated, “I am sure as I am about Christ’s reign that a separate comprehensive and centralized system of national education separate from religion as is now commonly proposed will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics of individual, social, and political which this sin rent world has ever seen.”

4. The mandate to be salt and light in no way contradicts the command to be separate! Our children should be witnesses everywhere they go. But just as I am not going to the bar on Friday night to witness, and in the process disobey God, my children are not going to a government school on Friday to be a witness and disobey God and be corrupted. We must try to reach these lost children without sacraficing and corrupting our precious children!
 
Some would argue that their school has Christian teachers. It makes little difference when the curriculum is based on humanism. Evolution is taught almost across the board and sin is rampant in every public school! Do those Christian teachers stop all drugs, immorality, homosexuality, and alluring dress? No!

• I will leave you with this powerful truth, by a powerful man that used it to bring terror to a world. “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future”  (Adolf Hitler).

*Don’t just think, obey the Scriptures!