Comment from reader: Was Billy Graham home schooled? James Dobson?? Dr. J Vernon McGee??? CS Lewis???? You are making all schools/teachers out to be minions in an evil society. How many teachers are in your congregation? Are they all displaying the traits that you have listed in your monologue? Sorry, but I cannot stand education bashing.
Response to our reader: I want to thank you for writing and engaging with this site. We want to have a discourse with the readers. Even in disagreement the probability of edification is a good thing and that is never a bad thing.
We do have several teachers in our congregation. I have neighbors that are teachers and teachers in my family as well. Two vocations I personally hold in high regard are teaching and nursing. So I appreciate your defense of teachers and agree that not all teachers display the traits you're seeing in parts #4 and #5 of the Caesar/God series.
If you review those two blogs you will notice teachers are not mentioned. The reason is two-fold. The first is stated above, and the second is teachers teach what they are told to teach. Many do not like being put in positions that require them to teach things they don't agree with. Some have become very creative and teach the curriculum Caesar demands without compromising their convictions and indoctrinating the kids. Those teachers remind me of the Hebrew midwives that wouldn't destroy the Hebrew babies despite the King of Egypt's command. (Ex 1:5-22)
A review will also reveal I don't kick all public schools to the curb either. At the end of part four, I describe how public schools can be effectively used, but maintain we haven't seen those realities since the 1960's when there was a major shift, not only in education, but in our culture as a whole. In part five, I include public school in the options, but with much more local control for parents and those teachers you and I support. That is the way it used to be and should be again. Don't you agree?
As for the fine group of gentlemen you mentioned, I don't know their educational backgrounds, but please realize they all would have gone through the educational system pre-1960.
Finally, you will notice in this blog series several generalizations are made and can be argued against using exceptions. But exceptions do not make the rule and are often used to disengage from the larger issues at hand. Has the Judeo-Christian ethic, present in our schools since the first one room school house rang its bell, been expelled and replaced with the tenets of Secular Humanism? And if so, who or what is responsible - Christian silence, Caesar's subterfuge or perhaps both?