Your Children Don’t Belong To You
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago
See this report, and then watch this video.
Horace Mann was very effective at educating a new generation of communists, yes? The funny thing is that I agree that our children are not our own, but not in the way they do.
They believe in the dictum “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” I’ll leave it to the reader to ascertain the origin of this quote.
No, neither my children nor my grandchildren belong to me. Neither do they belong to the state. I am not an anarchist/libertarian, and I am not a statist.
I am a Christian. That means when I baptized my children, they were marked into the covenant. They belong to God, and God will do with them as He wishes. They are accountable to Him, as I am for teaching, raising and training them up in a world and life view that honors Him. I am God’s custodian and servant, I am in responsible charge of His living creation. That’s an awesome responsibility. It cannot be turned over to the state.
For once, I agree with a collectivist, but I still find myself on opposite sides. The state wants to be God. I will always war against that notion.
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On September 15, 2019 at 11:33 pm, BRVTVS said:
When I was in high school, I found a library book in the collection from circa 1948, containing speeches given at an NEA convention in honor of Horace Mann. I read a few parts and was surprised just how much NEA hostility existed against orthodox Christianity already at that time. They expressed especial hatred existed for Catholic Christianity and emphasized Horace Mann’s Unitarianism as a root of government schooling.