Deconstructing the Coliseum promotes civil government school system abolition.
Take a few minutes one day and visit those websites for organizations you think are conservative. Now, go to the area of each website and look at the articles relating to education. How is education discussed? Are the articles mainly about school choice… and vouchers? Is there even discussion about whether there should be a civil government school system in the first place?
William Buckley – oftentimes considered the most influential conservative leader of the 20th century – admitted he had difficulty defining conservatism. But conservatism is easy to define: those principles that are a function of Scripture. Small civil government, large church government, large family government and self government. Biblical morality, forward-looking lifestyle, and so on.
Since conservatism is a function of Christianity, why is it that we are not justifying how we do education using Scripture? I am not just talking about Scripture applying to the huddled masses in our houses. Scripture applies everywhere at all times. And if Scripture guides our public policies on economics, foreign policy, social issues, why not education?
So visit even those organizational websites that say they are Christian. Where is the discussion about whether Scripture even justifies the use of force and coercion to advance thought? Where is the discussion beyond the superficial analysis that we need vouchers? – which within my estimation are just more humanistic central planning.
In a Christ-like manner, demand the discussion be moved from being man-centered to being Christ-centered. As always – as Christians – when we discuss anything under the sun, we must start with what Scripture says. And I submit to you that if you search the Scriptures you’ll find no justification for a civil government school system – that the education duty plainly belongs to families with churches as their back-up. As such, demand conservative organizations reason that way.