A Christian Philosophy of Education - The Government Schools

[Colin]

When did you become a theocrat Bono? When did you become a proponent of bible reading in schools? I would expect this from jmfcst not from you. I mean, come on, teaching the bible in school as devine revelation, believing that children's English scores are directly related to their knowledge of the bible, and that all people should be educated as Christians. Bono, you can't really agree with this.

As a libertarian you should hold choice as a major feature of any good system of government, I think that's one of the basic tenents of libertarianism, however what this does is destroy choice through teaching children only through a Christian perspective. What if I do not want my child to have bible reading and religion classes all day? What if I want him to learn about a scientifically proven theory like evolution? If all schools are like this then there is no choice, you either toe the line of Christian theology as propogated in these schools, which seems to be a rather fundamentalist vision of Christian theology, or you learn it anyway.

Damn cultish Calvinism.

[Colin]

While I don't agree with everything this person is saying, I posted this mainly becuase of one point I do agree with: public schools aren't neutral on religion. They actively promote secular humanism and anti-theism.  That thing about the "first isaiah" and "second isaiah" is a good example. While conservative scholars view the book of Isaiah as a single unit composed in the 8th century BC, liberal "scholars", due to their bias against predictive prophecy, divide it in first isaiah, second isaiah and third isaiah. The first siaiah corresponding to chapters 1-39, and being from the 8th century, the second chapters 40-55 from the 6th century, and chapters 56-66 from the post-exile period.  That was a good example of a direct atack on the Bible.

If that's a "direct" attack on the Bible, I'd love to see what an indirect attack is, because that seems ridiculously obscure.

I was just about to say that. If breaking up a book into three parts is a direct attack I think we're getting a little testy.

[Colin]

Today Christianity is attacked all through the public school system.

Oh dear.  What kind of horrible attacks?

pagan center of devil worship like Borders.

Hey I go to the one true pagan center of devil worship, Barnes and Noble.