Secular Jihad

Today, when the whole population of every civilized country is subjected to an intensive process of schooling during the most impressionable years of their lives, it is the school and not the church that forms men's minds, and if the school finds no place for religion, there will be no room left for religion elsewhere.
                                Christopher Dawson, Cultural Historian, Civilization in Crisis  (1950) (Thanks to Chris Baker for this quote.)

When government schools declare religion out of bounds, they aren't, as they claim, being neutral towards all religions. They aren't just saying that religious expression isn't relevant to education either. They are enshrining the religion of secularism with its saints (like Darwin), martyrs (like Galileo), and liturgy ("separation of church and state") to be the established faith of the school.

Because religious beliefs are our most basic beliefs, they frame, color, and define our view of the world at every waking and sleeping moment. Claiming otherwise, would be like telling your coach you could see the ball just as well wearing your welding helmet as your batting helmet. The welding helmet keeps certain things out while the batting helmet helps you see as God intended. Your coach would not be fooled.

"What God has joined together no man can put asunder." So government schools pull a fast one by pretending to have put it asunder, while installing their own belief system for all practice day in and day out from pre-K to graduation.

The students get the message too. When I spoke up from a Christian perspective in my government school, it wasn't the teachers who were offended. It was my fellow students who told me to shut up!

Teachers are expressly forbidden from teaching from a Christian point of view. Evangelism is an outrage and Christianity is evangelistic. This makes Christian statements unwelcome in the classroom.

Christians in public schools have been conquered by secular Jihad and reduced to the status of dhimmitude, which means "concession, surrender and appeasement" towards government demands. The government isn't Sharia law but Secular law.

With government schools leaving no place for Christian expression, is it any wonder that the Christian recession in the public square starting in the early twentieth century continues today with disastrous moral results?