Joel Belz has written a thought-provoking article on the upcoming election. It is an article that may make you re-think your priorities and think twice about this whole idea of Christian education and its cost. If you have been reading this blog for a while you already know what I think of Christian education and its importance. Mr. Belz writes on his thoughts of past Christian priorities in the following passage:
"While strenuously wrestling over business and banking and health care and energy and a dozen other issues, we [Christians] cavalierly handed over to the state a perpetual 90 percent share of the nation's educational interests. America regularly has about 50 million children enrolled in K-12 schools, and about 20 million more in colleges and universities—and while the pattern fluctuates a little, 90 percent of those 70 million young people regularly get a state-flavored view of reality. "
"Socialized medicine? Most of us recoil at the idea. Socialized airlines? Reminds us of Aeroflot. Socialized banks? When it happened last month, it terrified us.
But socialized schools? Nine out of ten of us patronize them regularly.
And we do so with na'ry a thought or concern about how such an arrangement affects next week's election, or the election after that, or the lifetime of elections to come. "
Belz goes on to remind us of some important things regarding Christian education.
"The bells of freedom on every front traditionally ring more clearly where a biblical value system has been inculcated. No one should expect anything resembling such a result from secularist state-sponsored schools, which will naturally glorify the state. No one should be surprised when that's what happens. "
Do not be fooled; education is enculturing and indoctrinating. The only question is which worldview do you want encultured and indoctrinated into your child. The choice you make, as a Christian, may matter...30 years from now in another election. Blessings!
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