Myth: Secular Public Education is Neutral & Tolerant

When I hear the phrase "public education", I cringe to my very core in angst and disgust. Besides the impotence of public education to actually educate anyone in a meaningful and efficient manner, two of the great lies which lie at the heart of its incompetency are neutrality and tolerance.

First of all, public education is not neutral because no education is neutral. Every form of education will have some type of interpretative lens by which it grounds itself and views reality. That form in the public education arena is that of atheistic humanistic socialism with a flavor of pantheism; all in all a loose pluralism. We send children to be trained by Caesar, and we're shocked when they come home as Romans as Voddie Baucham would say. We are fools if we think the public education system and even most of our private Christian schools for that matter (which are just more expensive versions of public education) are fountains of truth and righteousness.

Secondly, public education is not purely tolerant, for every education system is exclusivistic at some point. It is impossible to be otherwise. It is better to say that they are intolerant of Christianity because the Bible is an assault on relativistic thought. Ironically, in their hatred for the Bible as the chief source text for understanding the overarching schematic of the world, they reject that which keeps man from grasping at straws. After all, to reject the Bible is to be left with the endless philosophies of man that not only internally contradict themselves but also have no legitimate foundation for the knowledge these bankrupt systems seek to advocate! Only the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom!

For this reason, a doctrinally sound Christian based education is essential in bringing up a generation in the fear and admonition of the LORD, not to mention any meaningful incentive to learn anything at all. Truly, if we all just turn to ash at the end of the day then why learn anything? For this reason, nihilism or the philosophy that all is meaningless prevails in various forms today. By the way, if you think that is novel, go back and read Ecclesiastes, for Solomon was well acquainted with what happens when you take the LORD GOD of HOSTS out of the picture.

Therefore, be on guard against the tolerant neutrality claim when it comes to education (or anything for that matter), for that is a myth used to pull wool over the eyes of parents in an attempt to indoctrinate children into the godless unrighteous based education venues that prevail in America today.

To Him be the glory! Amen!