Deconstructing the Coliseum promotes civil government school system abolition.
One of the biggest reasons I started Deconstructing the Coliseum is because the leading Christian organizations are not making the right arguments. Here is an example, one that I loathe making, because listeners may recoil at who it is I question.
There is a short documentary produced by HSLDA entitled Building the Machine, A Movie about the Common Core. In the movie at the 24:27 mark, Mike Farris, the Home School Legal Defense Association’s Chairman, assumes the validity of the civil government school system. He does this by discussing the hypothetical about operating what he calls a “public school”, but which is really a civil government school. In that same segment Mr. Farris also takes issue with how the Common Core uses the force of law to be implemented. That is the problem. Mike Farris, who millions of Americans look to for guidance, says that the problem with Common Core is that it uses the force of law. Mr. Farris: all civil government curriculum uses the force of law. That’s the problem.
Local civil governments use the force of law when determining and applying standards and curriculum. State civil governments use the force of law when determining and applying standards and curriculum. That’s the issue. No civil government should be determining and applying standards and curriculum. It is arbitrary and inconsistent to say, “Well, the federal civil government shouldn’t use the force of law to determine and apply standards and curriculum.” And then go right ahead and hold that state and local civil governments can use the force of law to determine and apply standards and curriculum. That is why I say respectfully that Mike Farris is in error. No civil government – whether federal, state, or local – has the God-given right to use force and coercion to advance thought. The civil government has no God-given right to use the force of law to advance religion, humanism or Christian.