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          First, here is the biblical text that Swertley is using as a stepping off point, Deuteronomy 6:.4-9

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. † 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. 7 Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem † on your forehead, 9 and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

> Do the commands of God in this portion of Scripture give parents the option of placing their children in a public school? There are a number of Biblical reasons why the answer to this question is an emphatic no.

          So we see right off that the true Christian will not put a child in a public school, ie. under CR there is no support what-so-ever for public schools. It is not an issue of the 10 Commandments on the walls or starting the day with prayer, it is an issue of the very existence of public schools. I don't think that many on the RR understand that the 10 Commandments and prayer are the opening salvos, not the final shots, in the RR attack on the separation of church and state. Separation of church and state will be *the* crucial issue in the years ahead. We need to keep harping on how merging church and state corrupts *both* the church and the state.

> One reason why this portion of Scripture rules out the Christian use of public schools is that it requires the true Christian faith to be integrated into every area of life. Every subject under the sun (e.g., math, geography, economics, art, literature, science, medicine, agriculture, political science, etc.) must be taught from a distinctly Christian perspective. Deuteronomy 6:7 tells fathers that every part of every day and in every place there must be a discussion of Jehovah and His Word. If God requires theological discussion at home, outside in the garden or park, in the supermarket, in the car or even at the ballpark, then certainly He requires a discussion of God and His ways during the many hours of education at school.

          That's the way they want it - every conversation must be laced with references to God, no matter what the topic, "Every subject under the sun" must be laced with references to God.

> No Neutrality

          No neutrality - that is exactly what they mean.

> Deuteronomy simply assumes that there are no areas of life that are neutral or purely secular.

          Read that again and savor the words. They mean exactly that. No area of life should be purely secular.

> Yet public schools as a distinct policy leave God, Christ, and the Scriptures outside of the classroom. Schools that separate God and Christ from the classroom are schools that are founded upon anti-Christian, atheistic unbelief.

          What they mean is "because rhetoric in public schools is not laced with references to God as interpreted by the correct Christian sect, the public schools are anti-Christian and atheistic." I think the public needs to be aware of what the CR means when they claim that the schools are anti-Christian and atheistic. To the CR mind, they are yelling fire when there is a fire when they claim that schools are anti-Christian.

> Such schools are not designed to promote obedience to Christ and His law-word but are designed to produce allegiance to the state.

          Well, now we find out what the purpose of education is - it is not to teach children to read and write, geography, mathematics, science, history, or literature. It is to "promote obedience to Christ and His law-word ."

> The Apostle Paul agrees with the teaching of Deuteronomy when he tells fathers to bring their children "up in the training and admonition of the Lord" (Eph. 6:4). The entire training process of a covenant child is to be "of the Lord." Every bit of training, discipline, education, and knowledge is to converge in total devotion and obedience to Jesus Christ as every beam of light leads to the sun.

          Well, just in case any one thought that the Old Testament command expired when the New Testament came in, CR theologians butress their arguments with a reference to the New Testament. Again, "Every bit of training, discipline, education, and knowledge is to converge in total devotion and obedience to Jesus Christ as every beam of light leads to the sun."

          If most Americans understood that was the goal of CR and RR politics, do you genuinely think most Americans would support it?

          [Snip a repeat]

> Implicit Polytheism

> Another reason why Christians should not send their children to public schools is that state schools violate the first commandment by adhering to the educational philosophy that no religion should be favored above another religion. In a nation of many diverse religions, the educational establishment believed the best policy was to establish religiously neutral schools. However, because religious neutrality is an impossibility, public schools opted for agnosticism, secular humanism, and naturalism all of which are religious beliefs that are antithetical to Christian theism.1 Indeed, many within the educational establishment waved the flag of neutrality and fairness as a guise to de-Christianize the schools in America. Sadly, most Christians have succumbed to the neutrality ploy.

          Religious neutrality is considered fundamentally anti-Christian. That becomes Religious neutrality is anti-Christian bigotry.

          [snip]

> Public schools are in open rebellion against Jesus Christ for they reject His authority over the classroom.

          Religious neutrality is considered "open rebellion against Jesus Christ."

          [snip]

> Let no one fail to see the point: The school system that ignores God teaches its pupils to ignore God; and this is not neutrality. It is the worst form of antagonism, for it judges God to be unimportant and irrelevant in human affairs. This is atheism.

          Religious neutrality is anti-God, atheism. Do you genuinely think that these ideas are related only to the CR concept of church and school or are also the underpinnings of the CR philosophy regarding church and state in general?

> Jesus said, "[H]e that is not with Me is against Me" (Mt. 12:30).

          Here is the CR attitude toward their opponents in a nut shell. Either you support the CR agenda or you are the enemy.

          [snip a repeat of the above]

> Promote Obedience

> A third reason why Christian parents should not send their children to public schools is that the purpose of educating covenant children is to promote obedience to Jesus Christ and His law. Christian parents have a responsibility to pass on to their children a distinctly Christian world and life view. A covenant child's education must be permeated with Christian ethics or values. Every subject must be taught in accordance with the Christian worldview and must be "Christocentric."

          Let me repeat that last sentence: "Every subject must be taught in accordance with the Christian worldview and must be "Christocentric." " Gone are the references to God, now it is Christ who must be put at the center of all education.

> [snip] In public schools, every subject and discussion is an anti-Christian stronghold that needs to be pulled down.

          The CRs want to destroy the public schools. "In public schools, every subject and discussion is an anti-Christian stronghold that needs to be pulled down."

> Public schools teach that man evolved from pond scum. 

          So, evolution is the bogey man here.

> The Bible teaches that God created all things in six literal days. Is it proper for a Christian father to expose his seven- or eight-year old child to a dogmatic, organized attack against the foundational doctrine of creation?

          So, because science and the Bible conflict, we need to teach bad science. Is this really the kind of person you want running your schools or the government?

> Public schools teach that ethics are evolving, that society or the majority determines what is acceptable behavior. The Bible says that the moral law is based on God's nature and is unchanging, absolute, and non-negotiable. Public schools teach that man is basically good and that many bad behaviors are the result of bad genetics, or environment, or disease (e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction). The Bible teaches that man is born with the guilt and pollution of sin and that every transgression of God's law is evil. Public schools identify many evil activities as permissible and even virtuous (e.g., fornication, homosexuality, witchcraft, idolatry, rebellion against parents, etc.). They also strongly condemn many fundamental doctrines of Christianity such as Christ's exclusive claim to be the way to God, the Biblical view of the family, and so on. Public schools have no real foundational basis for teaching ethics. Only the Bible gives real, logical reasons why cheating, theft, rape, sexual immorality, and murder are wrong. Public schools espouse a secular humanistic, neutralistic, pluralistic, relativistic anti-Christian philosophy that contradicts Scripture at every fundamental point. Parents simply cannot be faithful to the Biblical commands to instill in their children a Christian world and life view if they send their children into the Satanic lion's den of public education. Every thought is to brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, not to the obedience of the heathen state.

          An important paragraph for understanding all of CR theology and CR hatred of secular humanism. CRs can't imagine that people can be moral without having a powerful God to use as a bogeyman to keep them in line. Consequently, their God must be a vengeful God.

          "Only the Bible gives real, logical reasons why cheating, theft, rape, sexual immorality, and murder are wrong." Sorry but that just isn't true and even if I concede that it is true, how do you teach children honesty when you demand that they call truth a lie and a lie the truth. When you demand that children be taught creation science instead of evolution, you demand that children replace intellectually honest science with junk science, the truth with a lie, for no other reason then that your holy book makes outrageous claims about how life came to be on the planet earth.

          You use the creation story in Genesis, which is no more than a myth, to teach children that women are by nature more sinful than man or are more guilty of humanity's expulsion from paradise. Then you use your argument of women's greater culpability in the "crime" to justify women's eternal subordination to men. So you take a myth and you wrap a lie around it to justify treating women like second class members of the humanity. You teach men to lie about women; you teach men that their lies entitle them to treat women as some sort of second class human being.

          You demand that children learn to call the truth, a lie, and lies, the truth.

          How do you teach children that on the day of judgment they will stand before God to answer for *their* sins when you claim that God has condemned all women to a second rate existence for the sins of a woman who lived and died over 6,000 years ago? If God judges each person upon his or her own sins, why has God prejudged all women to a second rate existence?

          How do you teach children that God is both just and merciful when you claim that God condemns all women to a second class existence because of the doings of another, that no woman who as ever lived and no woman who ever will live can ever overcome curse placed on her when God expelled Adam and Eve from paradise? Where is the justice in condemning one person for the sins of another? Where is the mercy in claiming that no amount of sacrifice will ever propitiate God for the sin of Eve?

          Read Judges 19 or the story of Tamar, then explain to me how you can teach children that rape is wrong.

          Read the story of King David's rise to power. David was little more than a highwayman, a brigand who usurped the throne of the anointed king. How do you teach children that theft is wrong?

          Read the story of David and Bathsheba, the explain to me how do you teach children that sexual immorality and murder is wrong?

          How do you teach children sexual continence when the Bible says that Solomon had over 700 wives and 300 concubines?

          You holy book is full of some of the most disgraceful stories about human nature that have ever been written. Yet, you claim that the book is literally true and should be used in total as a model for our own lives. Sections of the Bible are nothing short of pornography. Do you expect children to use those sections of the Bible as models for their lives, too?.

          The vast majority of professing Christians disagree with your interpretation of the Bible. Yet they are willing to allow you to believe about the Bible what you want to believe and are willing to allow you to live your life according to the dictates of your own conscious. In return, you set your interpretation of the Bible up as the only correct interpretation of the Bible and call any one who disagrees with you anti-Christian, devils, Satanic, and atheists. When you set your opinion of what the Bible teaches as the only correct interpretation of the Bible and demand that every one agree with you and worship your concept of God, you have replaced God with your opinion of God and you have made your opinion about God into a false idol to be worshipped. How do you teach children not to chase after false gods when you do just that? Why should any one have any tolerance for your ideas when you are intolerant of theirs?

          Most of liberal ethics revolves around a very simple rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." When asked the most important law, Jesus himself replied, "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and all thy mind; love thy neighbor as thyself." Where is the love of either God or humanity in your interpretation of the Bible?

          If you want people to tolerate your opinions, even the ones they don't like, then you must tolerate the opinions of others, even the ones you don't like.

          If you don't want people to steal from you, don't steal from others. etc., etc., etc

> Bad Company

> A fourth reason why Christian parents should not send their children to public school is that "bad company corrupts good morals" (1 Cor. 15:33, NASB). [snip] A covenant child in a public school is assaulted from every side by demonic doctrine, profane disputations, coarse jesting, Satanic music, an exaltation of fornication and rebellion, a hatred of lawful authority, and all sorts of deadly temptations. How many covenant children have had their minds polluted and their morals corrupted at the public school?

          The author is talking about your children here: "A covenant child in a public school is assaulted from every side by demonic doctrine, profane disputations, coarse jesting, Satanic music, an exaltation of fornication and rebellion, a hatred of lawful authority, and all sorts of deadly temptations." He doesn't have a very high opinion of most American parents if that is what he thinks of most American children.

> Biblical Discipline

> A fifth reason why a covenant child should not attend public school is that a Christian child's education must always be accompanied by Biblical discipline. Biblical education is never purely an intellectual affair. It is always to be accompanied with verbal reproof, correction and admonition, and physical chastisement or spanking when necessary.

          [snip]

          So, out of curiosity, what is the difference between physical chastisement and spanking?

          So, as a CR parent you shouldn't send your child to a public school because the school can not spanking your child.

> Secular Humanism

          Here comes the big bogey man - secular humanism.

> However, the main reason why covenant children should never attend a public school is that the discipline that occurs in a state school is not based on Scripture or Biblical ethics but on secular humanism. Therefore, covenant children who are in a public school will receive Satanic admonition.

          The next sentence will knock your socks off.

> For example, they will receive rebuke, correction, and chastisement for godly behavior (e.g., starting prayer groups, speaking up for Christ in class, witnessing to others, telling the truth regarding premarital sex and homosexuality, warning others of false religions, etc.) and they will receive praise for ungodly speech (e.g., speech that accepts and promotes human autonomy, relativism, cross-dressing and homosexuality, evolution, polytheism, racism [e.g., affirmative action], mulitculturism, feminism, statism, etc.).

          So, because CR children are not allowed to proselytize other children into their religion or demonize others and because CR children are encouraged to be open minded, accepting of others who think differently from themselves, and pro-active in fighting discrimination against those who are not necessarily like them, the schools are under the control of Satan. God help this country if the CRs ever take control of the government.

> The Satanic admonition that children receive in public schools is designed to promote a personality and behavioral change in an explicitly anti-Christian direction.

          So, i the CR world-view Christianity is judgmental and intolerant.

> Furthermore, even if and when a public school teacher or administrator disciplines a child for something that is truly unethical (e.g., lying, stealing, name-calling, fighting, etc.) he (as a set policy) cannot give Biblical reasons for discipline but must rely on pragmatism, or some concept of loyalty to humanity or the state. To say to a child, "Do not lie because you need to be a good citizen" or, "Do not steal because it violates the brotherhood of man" tells a child something far different than, "Do not lie or steal because such behavior is a violation of God's moral law and displeases Him," or "John, do you know that the Bible says that liars will not enter the kingdom of heaven?" Public school discipline is given in terms of utility to the state rather than in Biblical terms of service and glorification to God.

          So, now if we don't rely on scaring a child into right-action by using God as a big bogey-man, but rather use reason to convince a child into right-action, we are wrong.

> State Theft

          Christian libertarianism (which is a fancy name for the oxymoron Christian anarchy) coming up.

> A sixth reason why covenant children should not attend public school is that God has not given the civil government the authority or Biblical right to establish a tax-financed public school system.

          How about that. The Bible doesn't give the government the right to run public schools, so public schools are by definition anti-biblical. Well, as you will find, this argument resurfaces again and again in CR literature. The Bible doesn't give the government the right to institute old age pension plans, so abolish social security. The Bible doesn't give the government to fight pollution or provide clean drinking water, so get rid of the EPA and government operated water utilities. True libertarianism at its best.

> The Bible gives the civil magistrate a limited authority under God. The civil government has been given the task of protecting society by bringing negative sanctions against public evil.

          In the CR world view, that's the limit of the role of proper government - protecting the life, liberty, and property of citizens.

> The civil magistrate is a minister of God "to execute wrath on him who practices evil" (Rom. 13:4). The civil government has every right to collect taxes in order to fulfill its negative role of protection. It, however, does not have Biblical warrant to intrude upon the God-ordained covenantal institutions of the church or the family unless a crime (Biblically defined) has been committed.

          No domestic violence shelters. No divorce. No child protection against abuse. No anti-child labor legislation. No laws the impinge on the family or the church.

> Few professing Christians would argue that the civil magistrate has the right to administer the sacraments or exercise church discipline. Most professing Christians, however, do not have a problem with the state collecting taxes by means of coercion in order to do something that Scripture explicitly says belongs to fathers (Dt. 6:4-9; Eph. 6:4). The state has no more Biblical right to collect taxes for public education than it does to set up Buddhist temples or Hindu shrines.

          That's a good quote: "The state has no more Biblical right to collect taxes for public education than it does to set up Buddhist temples or Hindu shrines."

> The only people that God has given authority to set up schools for children are parents. [snip] When parents put their children in a state school they, in essence, are supporting the state's messianic claim of total jurisdiction over the family.

          Huh?

> Such parents are contributing to the Molech-state's power religion. They also are guilty of stealing from their neighbor, for taxation without divine authorization is theft. Their children are going to school at the taxpayer's expense. Many of these taxpayers are elderly people who do not have any children and are on fixed incomes.

          And who are often receiving social security checks, medicare, and other government paid for benefits. True libertarianism at its best: Taxes = State Theft

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          So the next time you listen to a fundie rattling on, listen for the CR theology underpinning his words.

          Oh, and as an astute reader has pointed out, notice that verses 8 and 9 are completely ignored. But that is typical CR theology, too. They fell free to pick and choose which verses they will and will not use in any particular circumstance. Officially CR theology claims that certain parts of Old Testament writings have been superseded by New Testament writings and the New Testament releases true believers many of the old Jewish rituals.

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