“Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” Proverbs 5:5-7
As I start here you are going to think that I have a disdain for education. That is not the case. I have friends that have gotten knowledge thru education and I respect them highly. They are way smarter than I am – when I want advice I will go to them in a heartbeat. I also have friends that are highly educated and for all intents and purposes, do not have sense enough to get out of the rain.
In this country, we have such an emphasis on getting knowledge, but very little is said about understanding. Sure, you can get the knowledge to create an atomic bomb, but if you do not understand what is going to happen if you release that bomb you need to step back and look at the bigger picture of what is going to happen when you do. We are gaining more and more knowledge, (but if you will excuse this grammar) we is getting stoopider and stoopider!!
Want to know the reason why? The more a society does everything under their own power without God’s aid, the more we slide down – in morals, in thinking, and in wisdom. We leave God in the dust and eventually we will get buried in a mudslide.
“Because that, when they knew God, the glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
“And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.”
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:”
“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”
“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:” Romans 1:21-26a
If you read on, you will see that all forms of wickedness are listed. All of these come and are a result of leaving God out of everything. They all stem from being educated beyond our ability of the things we should be understanding – the important thing that God wants us to know of him.
I will leave you with this little tidbit – Satan was the teacher in the first public school – look how that turned out.
AE
and continuing…
“Don’t let them educate you beyond your intelligence.”
~ John Gordon (My Grandfather)
Education is one of those volatile topics that cause a lot of drama. I completely understand why it would. These are our children. We all love our children.
“How dare you judge me? You don’t know my circumstances. You don’t know my school’s policies, procedures, etc.” I hear this every single time I speak out against GOVERNMENT (not public) indoctrination (I mean education). It used to cause me to shy away from discussing my issues with the system of education in our country. Now that I see trained Marxists burning down our cities, and see the curriculum being proposed by the government, and I hear and see the curriculum already in place in that same system; I really don’t care what people think of me. You can keep pretending that our schools aren’t training our children in socialist/Marxist theory, but the boatloads of students coming out of schools today who think socialism in America is a great idea teaches me otherwise.
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
~ Adolf Hitler
Although Hitler was an evil man, he was by no means stupid. He understood that the future is shaped by the youth. You can change the tide of history in the course of a single generation.
Over 50 years has passed since prayer was banned in the American school system. Why didn’t every Christian family immediately pull their children out of that system right then? It’s been over 75 years since we have been teaching the theory of evolution in those same government schools, yet no one even blinks when we realize that the theory which once was taught alongside creation is now taught as fact, and that creation is no longer allowed to be taught at all.
We believe in Marx, Freud, and Darwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.
We believe in sex before, during, and
after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.
We believe that everything’s getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.
We believe there’s something in horoscopes
UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad.
We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.
We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its
compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps
Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn
We believe in Masters and Johnson
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.
We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and
bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow.
We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.
We believe that each man must find the truth that
is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.
We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.
If chance be
the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.
Steve Turner, (English journalist), “Creed,” his satirical poem on the modern mind. Taken from Ravi Zacharias’ book Can Man live Without God? Pages 42-44
We have allowed our system to become what it is today, and the solution…? I always find that the answer to every one of life’s questions is always the same. God is the answer. We put God back in schools, we teach strong Christian values. We teach the Bible. We shine the light of Jesus into the darkest places, and we will see the change that everyone keeps praying for in America.
I know, I know, I live in a fantasy land. I really do love that little dream. In the meantime while waiting for my fairyland we can all start attending school board meetings, praying for our schools, and working hard to affect change within.
Deuteronomy 6:5-7 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
GA
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