They are not with us. They are against us.
Last week the Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association invited a Christian man from Egypt to speak on the Muslim religion. The event was to be held at one of the city schools. However, due to pressure from the NAACP and the Islamic Society of Mansfield the superintendent put the nix on the Tea Party's event by telling them they could not use the facility. The event was forced to move to another site at the last minute.
While it will be admitted that not every educator within the city schools will agree with the administration's actions, we should note carefully where the public education system's sympathies lie. The public school officials reveal that they are opposed to education in general, and Christianity in particular. They may mask their views with silly notions of "public safety", but their true colors are most certainly apparent: They do not wish to allow for the free speech and promotion of Christian beliefs. And what they do with this public event, they will do in the classroom too.
How can I say that? It is because the superintendent and his associates are the ones who are in charge of hiring teachers. As they go about choosing who will communicate ideas to the students of Mansfield, they will choose carefully. They will not wish to have someone in there who will bring Biblical principles to bear on their subjects nor tolerate anyone who might cause children to consider humanism and Islam false.
It ought to behoove Christians to think about how their children are being educated, and by whom they are being educated. I would urge any and all in the area public schools to begin checking into home education so that you can disciple your children in a way that comports with the fear of God. Our area homeschool network is a good place to start (found here).
4 comments:
Agreed.
Now, I am going to sound like an old "fuddy-duddy" as they say.
When I was in school, most notably grade school, our teacher was allowed to mention God. We started off the mornings singing songs like "America, the Beautiful" and "My Country Tis of Thee". Are they even allowed to do this anymore, since God is mentioned in them?
This country is in sad, sad shape, and I don't think she will ever be the same as when I was a kid, when having good morals was what people strived for.
Mansfield Schools said they had the event moved because of safety reasons. I wonder, though, if they would have moved the event if the speaker was a Muslim man speaking about Christianity rather than a Christian man speaking about Islam. If Islam is such a peaceful religion, why would there be any concern for the speaker's safety?
It all boils down to an understanding of the words "secular" and "sectarian". If it was to be a presentation promoting any religion of any sort it should not have been scheduled.
The Tea Party members, at least a good chunk of them, seem to be prejudiced against any other belief system other than their own.
Now, I am going to sound like an old "fuddy-duddy" as they say.
When I was in school, most notably grade school, our teacher was allowed to mention God. We NEVER, wasted any time bellowing out old wheezers like "America, the Beautiful" altho we did occasionally have to sing "My Country Tis of Thee", and I am glad we did'nt waste much time doing so. Instead we dived right into studies on the interconnectedness of ecosystems and life forms themselves, their classifications and other cool stuff like robotics, telecommunications sciences, systematic problem solving, creative arts, etc etc...
I graduated 4 years ago.
Yep, this country is in sad, sad shape, thanks to a whiny, obnoxious few trying to force a nonsensical anti-science culture and the delusional hallucination of something apparently called a "Biblical World View"....
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