HARMLESS THOUGHTS

When I meet someone who believes in any variety of Darwinistic Evolution, I just think of this in my mind.  And then I go. "Yeah. Right."

The following is an excerpt from The Case for Classical Christian Education by Douglas Wilson, pages 21 and 22.  --------------------------------------------- The NEA knows what it wants and is willing to dedicate its resources to get it. Sad to say, on the other hand, most Christian parents do not know what they want and are not willing to sacrifice anything. Many within the system still have a biblical view of morality, and so they want to work against this sinful agenda and try to restore "traditional" morality to American schools.  On what moral basis shall the teacher who wholly suppresses all appeal to religion rest that authority which he must exercise in the classroom? He will find it necessary to say to the pupil, "Be diligent. Be obedient. Do not lie."  This must be done so the student may acquire his secular knowledge. But on who's authority? By what standard?* Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a ...

Consider...  See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent , though he sought it with tears. ( Hebrews 12:15–17 ESV) Thought experiment:  I'd like to create a thought experiment by briefly describing, or rather, by creating a scenario. I could take several different routes in the creation of this thought experiment, because there have been many versions of this scenario which have played out in many different ways over... well... over the centuries. But I will choose to illustrate a scenario which may be a little bit more typical of our modern context.  Here we go: A man leaves his wife. The reasons aren't as important as one might think. Sure, there are r...