More on SBC Leaders Urging Public School Exodus

(Hat Tip: Christianity Today Weblog, one of the most complete religious-news blogs out there.)

This past May, T. C. Pinckney and Bruce N. Shortt introduced their now-famous resolution to the Southern Baptist Convention, urging that body to tell all parents to pull their kids out of public schools. The resolution failed, but the movement has persisted. State Baptist Conventions have debated similar resolutions, which have passed in some States but failed in others.

The reasons for such failures are entirely predictable: the public schools weren't always the Godless and even anti-God institutions that so many of them have now become. A lot of Southern Baptists are still public-school teachers. They don't want to lose their jobs and their connections. And, as I can attest from my own less-than-salutary experience, sometimes Southern Baptists are more concerned with unity than with sound doctrine and practice.

What all Christians need to realize is this: Better to divide than to unite in error. And to the issue at hand, this quote from Ed Gamble, the staunchest advocate of the kids-out-of-public-schools movement today, says it all:

What has happened is not so much that the Christians are leaving the public schools as that the public schools have left the Christians.

Exactly. Publicly funded schools go back further than Horace Mann and John Dewey, the two who laid the foundations for today's hedonistic, socialistic, and anti-theistic curriculum. Hence, religious instruction was not only permitted but required, And why shouldn't it be required? God is as Real as gravity. Not to educate people about God is irresponsible. If government schools--following various court orders and consent decrees--won't see to this education, then parents must--any way they can.