If christians believed their stuff had real value, why not allow your children a secular education and choice?

Question

Wouldnt it stand up in the light of a decent modern education, based on real history and reputed academic guidance.?

Answer 1

If the purpose of government schools was to educate and teach children to think for themselves I would have no problem with that. It is clear to an increasing number of people the government educational system is as much about social engineering, conditioning behavior and teaching children what to think (as opposed to how to think) as anything else. If you have doubts about this, I would strongly encourage you to get an insiders point of view by reading one of the several books on the subject authored by John Taylor Gatto.



Any parent, Christian or otherwise should protect their children from such things, not encourage it!

Answer 2

my kids go to public schools and participate in as many functions as they want to.



Your notion fails. If the public schools here were as bad as in other places I too would home school them, not to narrow their education but to make sure they were learning.



Why does the secular world not provide a level of quality education and accountability for the work they do. They are unwilling to be responsible for what the child learns.



Also, they need to stand against the parent who think their child is infallible, I tell all of my kids teachers right up front each year, your right and they aren't when it comes to discipline and order in the class. I teach my kids to respect their teachers and civic leaders, sometimes that is hard to defend since they can do some pretty stupid things, like affairs with kids or protesting. They are civic leaders and should understand what that roles actually means.





Oh, and I think they should be paid on performance, just like the rest of the world. If you do well, you make more money, if you do horribly, find another line of work that suits your capability.

Answer 3

I'm sorry but this is a terribly ignorant line of logic. For 2 very basic reasons.



1) Many Christians.. I'm willing to say the vaste majority, can't afford religious schools and therefore MOST Christians ARE taught in secular schools. You don't naively think that Public Schools ONLY contain the children of Atheists and other religions... do you? HAHAHAHAHA. Stastically, atheists make up like 3% I think, of the population. Christianity makes up like 33% - Do you think that Private Schools account for 33% of the Education system? - In some countries where the government is too poor, perhaps. But in the westernized and developed countries, such as the U.S. Private Schools make up about 6-10% of the education system. So that gap between the number of Christians and the capacity of Private Schools, means that a lot of Christians go to secular Public schools.



2) The number of people who can afford Private School education has been dwindling in the past decades. So too has the capacity of the Private Schools. So not only can not everyone afford a private education.. there are not enough private schools to take in all the Christian children.





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Besides.... this line of reasoning is so faulty that it can easily be turned back around on itself. IF Atheism is right... and its stuff has value.. Shouldn't all Atheists send their children to Private Christian schools to be indoctrinated?



::Checkmate::

Answer 4

Your question suggests that teaching Christianity to children is not decent education, and is not real history and does not have reputed academics behind it. All three suggestions are incorrect.



In most countries, education is managed by the state, and is paid for by taxes. Some people for faith reasons, and also for other reasons, will homeschool their children, and those who can afford it will send their children to parochial schools, but the majority of people use the schools that are provided by the state.



But if you are asking why a Christian would not provide their children an education without God, and without teaching them about Christianity --



Supposing a parent said to their children: "Because I love you, I am not going to give you some healthy food, I will give you junky food that will not help you grow healthy, and I will give you a choice to pick out what you want."



People, particularly adults, tend to do the things that in their estimation will bring the greatest value for them.



Most parents provide to their children the very best that they can give them. Faith in our Creator and in Christ will guide them throughout their lives to do good and to be productive, and to have a purpose and a hope for the future.



(Proverbs 2:10-13, 20-23)

10 When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge itself becomes pleasant to your very soul, 11 thinking ability itself will keep guard over you, discernment itself will safeguard you, 12 to deliver you from the bad way, from the man speaking perverse things, 13 from those leaving the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness.

20 The purpose is that you may walk in the way of good people and that the paths of the righteous ones you may keep. 21 For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. 22 As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.



Too many children who are not given any hope for the future will resort to drug addiction and make some very bad choices about the life that they live. This is not because they don't have a choice, but because they do not have sound role models in their lives, and will succumb to peer pressure. Christian parents are commanded by God to be positive role models for their children and to teach their children about God. (Ephesians 6:4)

Answer 5

Actually, most do. A lot of the time their children are sent to Government schools and still choose Christianity.

Answer 6

It does.



The only place Christianity is question in this way is in the ignorant back alleys of the internet where atheists like to prowl.



Among the educated, and informed, and scholars, Christianity more than stands up to scrutiny . . . it compels.

Answer 7

that's precisely what my parents did.



and i discovered that what Jesus taught is the real deal, despite "real history" and "reputed academic guidance's" efforts to make me think otherwise.



(same goes for what Buddha, Muhammad, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Guru Nanak and many others have taught and they've all taught the same thing, only in different ways.)

Answer 8

Ah, heres where it gets fun. If they believe they are right, then they believe most of the world is out solely to trick their children.



Did you know that you can be tempted with peace? Right, a demon can promise to end some physical conflict for you, without any more death or harm coming, and you have just sinned forever.



I used to think their level of such things was impressive, but then I realized they were already reaching the bottom of the barrel, even after thousands of years to work on it.



Turns out once you let atheists in, we shred their arguments to tatters.

Answer 9

I do, and my kid loves and excels at physics and chemistry and, yes, believes in God. Actually, I have a theory that the control, excesses and hypocracy of man made and controlled organised religion, has turned many people away from God, which is why, while i believe in God, I dont believe in mans attempts to control and exploit my faith, nor would I subject my kid to the same

Answer 10

My kids attend public school, therefore they do have a secular education. It is their choice whether to attend church or not, so there's their choice.



What?

Answer 11

For the same reason that Texas is looking to outlaw critical thinking in schools. They feel it would undermine the teachings of their parents.



When you allow children a choice, they will find their own path away from mythology.

Answer 12

They know that if they allow their offspring free access to information, many of them will abandon superstition.

Answer 13

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SO: as caring parents, Christians - who believe in eternal doom for non-believers - should be willing to doom their children for all eternity for the sake of "giving them a choice"?



What kind of monster are you?

Answer 14

They know it wouldn't ...

Answer 15

They don't trust their god.