That's right. The Southern Baptist Convention does not believe in education.Onenewsnow reports that Morris Chapman, a former president of the SBC and one of the more hide-bound SBC leaders, wants Southern Baptist Churches to establish "Christian" schools. Chapman claims to be most concerned about "the protection and nurturing of the spiritual health and growth of children and adolescents."
And the reason he's concerned is because of the ungodly, secular, humanist public school system!
"In far too many public schools throughout the country," said Chapman, "our children are being bombarded with secular reasoning, situational ethics and moral erosion."
Hmm. He doesn't define those terms, but obviously considers such things to be anti the Southern Baptist god.
The solution, according to Chappie, is for SBC churches to set up "kingdom schools." This is what SBC kids need in order to learn the "truth" and be able to survive in the real world. Heh. Heh.
All of this may be leading somewhere else; may have more significant implications. Christian, in an article at Talk2Action, quotes Bruce Shortt of the Exodus Mandate, an organization involved in pulling christianist kids from public schools:
"Historically," says Shortt, "the Southern Baptist Convention has been rather joined at the hip with the public school system. But this proposal by Chapman, I think, represents the realization that the public school system is, in reality, the youth ministry for the state church of secular humanism."
What a fascinating statement. Especially the last part which uses a bunch of code words for the purpose of raising the hackles of fundy christianists: "youth ministry," "state church," "of secular humanism"?
Sheesh! Shortt is simply unconscionable! None of those terms have any validity in fact. They simply derive from his deluded mind.
The movement to move christianist kids from public to christianist schools is not new. James Dobson has been calling christianist parents to pull their kids out of public school for years. But, Chapman's statement may signal the beginning of a concerted SBC push to do just that.
Which is OK. Christianists can run their own schools. They can teach their children all the fantastical biblical stuff and create a whole generation of young people who are basically ignorant of reality and the way the world works. That's their right.
But it isn't education. It's indoctrination. Chapman, Shortt, Dobson and all those cut from this anti-public school mold, do not care about education; they do not believe in education. Education, by definition, is to help people learn to think, to consider alternatives, to come to their own conclusions.
And those goals are exactly the opposite of christianist indoctrination. It would be too bad for the country if the SBC decides to set up these so-called "kingdom schools." We already have too many people ignorant of history and science and just about every other subject you could name.
They're generally the ones who vote Repugnican!
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I live in an area where S. Baptists hold some clout. They are the primary reason I homeschool so that I can give my children a Secular Humanist education, one that is multidimensional and interdisciplinary, and encourages my children to be critical thinkers and critical readers. The last two being the most important skills S. Baptists wish to deprive American school children of, because without those abilities, individuals are easier to lie to and control.
Our Public schools are in dire straights and it is in part due to these people. They constantly bombard the system with their bullshit night and day, costing tax payers untold amounts of money, bogging school systems down permanently or temporarily with culture war agendas, as well as inculcating a culture of bigotry, supremacy and hate within our school systems.
Dear Anon - AMEN!!!!
It’s ok with me AS LONG AS IT IS NOT SUPPORTED BY TAXPAYER MONEY. The less educated their kids are, the better jobs will be available for kids that can invent things, improve life and health, etc.
I do feel bad that some bright kids will not contribute to the world.
Bob, I urge you to look at local free publications. Where I live, there is something that amounts to a Christian Bussiness Pages, that is printed and freely distributed. So that Christians can patronize other Christian Businesses and apply for Christo-centric jobs.
You would think that because these people were willfully ignorant and full of paranoid ideas, that they would be less successful, financially, and politically. Seeing how that doesnt seem to be the case, maybe you should ask yourself why that is.
They use their faith as inspiration to keep themselves separate and sacred from others, and that includes their business dealings. And there are plenty of rich folks who are all to happy to patronize these folks because that cultic milieu serves a greater political and social purpose.
Its not good enough that my tax dollars not pay for it. I want this shit out of public schools. If it cannot be supported by academia, or if it cannot be supported within the halls of authentic science, and if it cannot edify through the Arts, then it doesnt belong in public schools.
As much as I would like to be more open minded about this, I have discovered repeatedly the hard way that there can be NO Quarter, because that is what these assholes mean for the rest of us. They don't want to coexist. They want to achieve supremacy. There is a marked difference between those concepts.
Sorry I had to post as anonymous earlier, but unfortunately it wouldnt let me post with my google profile.
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