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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie  State education is sinful for the following reasons:
1. It involves giving unto Caesar what does not belong to him (i.e. covenant children who are to be educated in the fear of the Lord).
2. It involves a usurpation of the families sphere of authority.
3. Christian parents are to being up their children in a Christian worldview (Deut. 6), this cannot be done in a state school.
4. The point of state education is to indoctrinate children in a non-Christian - supposedly neutral - worldview (Dan. 1).
5. State education involves teaching children evolution, which strikes at the very heart of Christianity. |
All of your reasons presume that education is completely taken over by the State. There is neither a rendering to Caesar that which is not Caeser's nor an usurpation of authority when parents delegate authority for the education of their children. It would be an usurpation of parental authority for a parent to be forced to allow the Church to educate their children as well.
3. assumes that parents must, of necessity, never teach anything outside of school.
4. assumes a homogoneous type of Public Education and ignores some regions that do not teach a neutral worldview as well as periods in history when the worldview was decidedly Christian.
5. is another culturally conditioned argument that fails at the point that some public schools do not nor do all grade levels nor have all periods in the history of public education.
All of your arguments are based on specific examples and not a transcendental, Scriptural precept. For every example one can come up with examples of publich education that do not fit the particular mold.
Look, I'm not in favor of sending my children to public schools. That is
my decision as a parent, however.
I am commanded to raise my children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. I am responsible to God for that task. What you seem to misunderstand is the manner in which that can be accomplished as well as my authority to delegate tasks to others while not losing the inherent responsibility for the results.