"“We are not saying whether or not your God is real. But we are saying, by implication, that if He exists, His existence is irrelevant to what we are doing in this classroom.” And that is radically false."
Thank you!
I got saved in the mid/late 80s, a few months before graduating high school. Even then, as a kid, in public schools that were nowhere near as bad as they are now, I saw this fact! I remember it dawning on me recently after being born again... everything I ever learned was a lie.
Obviously, I don't mean every specific detail of every specific thing I ever learned in my life was a lie. I do mean what the quote above is saying. I spent all day, every weekday, (and home too, since I did not grow up in a biblical home), in an environment where God was never mentioned. I remember my early days as a Christian, drowning myself in the Scriptures to clean out my mind and soul and learning to have the biblical perspective and worldview on everything. It was like living in twilight my whole life and suddenly having the sun rise!
If that's how things were for me, again way back in the dinosaur years of the 80s, how in the world are Christian parents still fine with sending their kids to government schools? For the life of me, I can't understand that.
"“We are not saying whether or not your God is real. But we are saying, by implication, that if He exists, His existence is irrelevant to what we are doing in this classroom.” And that is radically false."
Thank you!
I got saved in the mid/late 80s, a few months before graduating high school. Even then, as a kid, in public schools that were nowhere near as bad as they are now, I saw this fact! I remember it dawning on me recently after being born again... everything I ever learned was a lie.
Obviously, I don't mean every specific detail of every specific thing I ever learned in my life was a lie. I do mean what the quote above is saying. I spent all day, every weekday, (and home too, since I did not grow up in a biblical home), in an environment where God was never mentioned. I remember my early days as a Christian, drowning myself in the Scriptures to clean out my mind and soul and learning to have the biblical perspective and worldview on everything. It was like living in twilight my whole life and suddenly having the sun rise!
If that's how things were for me, again way back in the dinosaur years of the 80s, how in the world are Christian parents still fine with sending their kids to government schools? For the life of me, I can't understand that.
Thank you for putting into words everything I’ve been thinking about this topic.