Public Schools Purpose was to Destroy a Child's Christian Belief

I never believed that the public school's focus was to destroy a child's christian belief until I read the views of the original signers of the Humanist Manifesto of 1933. Charles F. Potter, one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto, wrote this:

"Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?"

The original signers of the humanist manifesto had only 1 goal in mind for every child in public schol, to propagate this belief in humanism and to destroy a child's belief in God. He even states: "What can Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children to to stem the tide of a 5 day humanistic teaching?"

I now understand why 70-88% of all Christian children that go to public schools end up of losing their faith after their 2nd year in college. Children spend 14,000 hours in a humanistic education that was designed to deter them from faith in God and to teach them to believe in only themselves alone.

Take a look at the following link on John Dewey and Humanism

Children's Programs in the Church

I started reading a new book, Family Driven Faith by Voddie Baucham Jr. His beliefs are very similar to Kevin Swanson's. He talks about how the majority of Christians believe that the role of the church is to disciple the youth. This is the main reason why 70-88 percent of Christian teens leave the church by their 2nd year in college. Parents do not believe that their role is to disciple their own kids! He goes on to say that the bible clearly says that the role of discipleship is with the parents and not the church. The church's main role is to "equip the saints for the work of ministry" (Ephesians 4:12). We, as parents, need to take the responsibility to not only disciple our own children but to also share this same message with passion to other believers. My prayer is for my wife and I to learn from God everyday how to disciple and love our 2 sons, Joshua and Caleb.

4:14 Window

I was listening again to Kevin Swanson's Podcast and heard him talk about the 4:14 window. This is the window of age from 4 to 14 that statistics have shown that parents have the best influence on their kids especially in terms of salvation and raising their kids to believe in Christ. I realized that my main goal is to disciple especially in these early years to know and love Christ. The church today has not focused on dads and their involvement in their children's lives. Too often parents get mad at the youth programs/kids programs for the development of their children's faith when they forget that it is their main responsibility mandated from God to raise their children in the faith.

One Father at a Time

I listened to Kevin Swanson's podcast and realized today that the cause of most of the world's problems today is that the hearts of the fathers are turned away from their children. 40% of children are born without fathers this year. That's up 6% from 1960. 50% live in a house without a father. 71% of fatherless teens are responsible for pregnant teens. 85% of fatherless teens are sitting in prison. 75% of fatherless teens are in drug treatment. 50% of all marriages end in divorce and our government system is trying to fix this by throwing 100 billion dollars at a fatherless initiative. The only solution is ONE FATHER AT A TIME! One father at a time needs to turn their hearts toward their children and follow Deuteronomy 6:6,7 "These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." We, fathers, need to nurture our children with the word of God not only at church and at prayer times before dinner but in our daily lives. I need to spend time with Joshua and Caleb speaking the word of God into their lives. Lord, I pray that you will turn my heart towards Joshua and Caleb every day desiring that they know you and the power of your resurrection.

Will my kids be socialized?

Before even thinking about homeschooling I asked this same question: "Will my kids be socialized? or even Will they have enough peer interaction?" About a couple years ago my first thought was that they would get their socialization through church, homeschooling co-op programs, sports, and play dates. This was my justification/answer to this common question to homeschooling parents.

I realized today that the real answer could be with these series of questions? Who do you want to influence your children? Who do you want to shape your child's character? Who do you want to teach your children about sex, relationships, and God? If you want peers to teach your children then by all mean send them to public schools but if you want to be the one that teaches them about character, sex, relationships, God, family, then take them out of the public school.

Another thought is that socialization is really the indoctrination of government's worldview. It's the government's indoctrination of our children through public schools that has led to America's decline. I didn't realize that going through 13 years of public school shaped my worldview. Do I want the government to dictate what kind of worldview my sons should have? No! I want my sons to grow up with a biblical worldview. I actually think that I need to some influencing and teaching for myself so that I can get a proper biblical world view of all aspects of life.