As president of the denomination's mother seminary, Mohler is already the highest-profile Southern Baptist advocating a mass exodus from public schools and creation of a competing system of Christian and home schools.
"The strategy would also affirm the responsibility of churches to equip parents, support families and offer alternatives," he writes. "At the same time, this strategy must acknowledge that Christian churches, families and parents do not yet see the same realities, the same threats and the same challenges in every context. Sadly, this is almost certainly just a matter of time."
Mohler faults public education for undermining parental rights, promoting secular humanism and control by special interests. "Those who doubt the radical commitment of groups such as the National Education Association should simply look at the organization's public statements, policy positions and initiatives," he writes.
He says the state of public schools "has prompted some to reconsider the very idea of public education."
"Some now argue that Christian parents cannot send their children to public schools without committing the sin of handing their children over to a pagan and ungodly system," Mohler writes. "Fueled by a secularist agenda and influenced by an elite of radial educational bureaucrats and theorists, government schools now serve as engines for secularizing and radicalizing children."
Friday, January 18, 2008
Mohler Pushing Exit Strategy from Public Schools
Ethics Daily is reporting that Al Mohler has written a new book advocating that Christians pull their kids out of public schools. Mohler is President of Southern Seminary and is a nominee for President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Here's a quote from Ethics Daily:
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This is all quite disturbing, but what stands out the most to me was this statement by Mohler:
"There ultimately can be no reconciliation between the claims of Christianity and the claims of Islam. The enemies of the Cross know this too well."
Enemies? This is hardly consistent with Christ who is "The Prince of Peace" and who urged his followers to love their enemies and repay evil with good.
Seems to me that Mohler's overall language is quite militant and cult-like. He plays on the fears and prejudices of those he seeks to control.
I don't see anything remotely surprising about Mohler's view on public education.
He doesn't know the difference between education and indoctrination.
He has repeatedly shown that he is arrogant and ignorant enough to think that he has a corner on the truth. He wants to have the public schools impose that "truth" (according to Mohler) on all the students in those schools.
This is boiler plate Religious Right misinformation. To the extent that it is taken seriously enough to act upon it, to that extent it undermines social cohesion in this country.
He is stupidly undermining this country that he professes to so highly value. He inconsistently talks favorably about slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq (and elsewhere) in order to protect the very country that he is unknowingly working to undermine.
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