Gov­ern­ment Schools and the Chris­t­ian Remnant

I am grate­ful that the inci­dents described in the video below did not so much hold true at my high school. I dis­tinctly remem­ber a cou­ple of teach­ers talk­ing openly about church and such within the class rooms; I also recall that the school had pur­chased metal detec­tors for the doors but I don’t recall them ever hav­ing used them. (So there is a com­plaint about taxes and unnec­es­sary spend­ing some­where in there, I guess…).

In light of the inci­dents described in the video, though, I am again reminded of the impor­tance of home school­ing. Schools are able to impress upon chil­dren and young adults ideals endorsed by an increas­ingly (antichristian|socialist|not-what-this-nation-is-used-to) gov­ern­ment, and we should not be sur­prised when we learn the hard way that the chil­dren being our future isn’t nec­es­sar­ily a good thing.

As the video points out, the First Amend­ment to the Con­sti­tu­tion does indeed pro­tect the minor­ity against the major­ity, but it seems an obvi­ous corol­lary that the First Amend­ment only works if the major­ity them­selves accept it. What hap­pens when year after year hun­dreds of thou­sands grad­u­ate high school under­stand­ing and accept­ing that the gov­ern­ment can muz­zle us?

When I last posted, I won­dered aloud that maybe there was some­thing to the lib­eral side of pol­i­tics. The con­clu­sion of that mat­ter is that if democ­racy is the absolute — if “we the peo­ple…” are the power — then I’m not for sure that we can all Barack Obama’s pol­i­tics “unamer­i­can” sim­ply because Amer­ica elected him.

How­ever, what I’m finally — finally — start­ing to real­ize, what is finally coa­lesc­ing in my mind is that democ­racy isn’t the ulti­mate real­ity in Amer­i­can pol­i­tics, that Amer­i­can pol­i­tics isn’t sacred.

Rather, democ­racy, like any other sys­tem of gov­ern­ment, is a tool whereby God’s will may be done. Ulti­mately, His will is the absolute, the final con­cern of all who are His.

Recall that in Israel, a suc­ces­sion of kings was used to accom­plish God’s will, with some kings wholly embrac­ing His law, cast­ing down idols and allow­ing wor­ship of Yah­weh to flourish.

The New Tes­ta­ment reit­er­ates the respon­si­bil­ity of a gov­ern­ment to pun­ish the wicked and to reward the good. In Amer­ica, the good are an increas­ingly trod­den upon rem­nant who have lost their foot­ing; democ­racy is per­haps the most dif­fi­cult insti­tu­tion of gov­ern­ment ever devised, for it allows no checks and bal­ances against the wretched heart of nat­ural man.

It is, after all, a mat­ter of bib­li­cal fact that the Chris­t­ian rem­nant is a minor­ity wher­ever it is found, and it only takes a cur­sory overview of the Scrip­tures to dis­cern that very lit­tle of what passes for Chris­tian­ity in Amer­ica is actual Christianity.

Stu­dents across the nation are being raised by insti­tu­tions that tell them that faith has no rel­e­vance in learn­ing, that for­ni­ca­tion is accept­able if done “safely,” that humankind owes its exis­tence to an ancient, inevitable process of cos­mic and bio­log­i­cal evo­lu­tion, and that they are not to be crit­i­cal of “alter­na­tive” lifestyles and sexualities.

America’s most impres­sion­able cit­i­zens, for nearly forty hours of every school week, are being sys­tem­at­i­cally pro­grammed to be antag­o­nis­tic toward Truth. Even for school chil­dren from Chris­t­ian house­holds, it is unlikely that their time with their par­ents or church is as pro­duc­tive or impres­sive as their time at the gov­ern­ment learn­ing insti­tu­tions — after all, once you sub­tract time for all of the after school and extracur­ric­u­lar activ­i­ties, social lives, tele­vi­sion, and so on, you don’t get much time to pass down Chris­t­ian mores and truths.

The Con­sti­tu­tion guar­an­tees that absolute power is never vested in one man; across the world, monar­chy is being replaced with democ­racy. Yet on the off chance that we’d have a king like unto David or Josiah, a king who would cast down idols from our land and use their author­ity in obe­di­ence to Yah­weh rather than in igno­rance or oppo­si­tion to Him… Per­haps a king is what this nation needs? (That tax­a­tion was so much a moti­va­tion for our cast­ing off of monar­chy in Amer­ica, I can’t help but to begin to won­der just how much the love of money influ­enced the Amer­i­can revolution?)

Of course, some of you may like to point out that not all of Israel’s kings were as godly as David turned out; fair enough, but I won­der how dif­fer­ent that’d be from the pro-​abortion, pro-​homosexuality, pro-​Islam yet still some­how “Chris­t­ian” Pres­i­dent that we have today?

Just won­der­ing out loud, and as always, your thoughts and ques­tions are welcomed.

Video found on The Mil­i­tant Lib­er­tar­ian.