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Comment on: Building the Opportunity Society

Bold New Direction For America - Part 3 - Untie the Financing of Public Schools from the Taxation of Real Property

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Wednesday, August, 16, 2006 11:56 AM JDW writes:

You assume

A quote from an 1887 lecture by A. A. Hodge sums up Rushdoony’s message:

“I am as sure as I am of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this sin-rent world has never seen.”[7]

If your children are still attending public school, this “enginery” is working on them five days a week.


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Wednesday, August, 16, 2006 12:02 PM JDW writes:

You assume

that the public schools are worth having here is a quote from an 1887 lecture by A. A. Hodge

“I am as sure as I am of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this sin-rent world has never seen.”[7]

If your children are still attending public school, this “enginery” is working on them five days a week.
It would be better to follow Deut 6: 4-7

Also " It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." Al Einstein

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Wednesday, August, 16, 2006 12:05 PM JDW writes:

my post meant ot say

You public schools assume that are worth keeping
" It is a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." Al EInstein
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