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CHRISTIANITY, FREEDOM AND
EDUCATION
If the Son therefore shall make you
free, ye shall be free indeed.
(John 8:36 AV)
The term liberal education,
or liberal arts is used often in the community of Schools, Colleges and
Universities. But what is inferred by that term? The word liberal is
derived from the Latin word liber, which is translated as free. Therefore,
to be schooled in a liberal education is to be schooled in the principles of the
freedom that education brings.
As early as the days of the Greek
city-states and throughout the era of the Roman Empire, to be educated was the
mark of a free man. Education was therefore the academics of freedom
through proper knowledge. Although the education of these nations was not
Christian, it was religious. Rushdoony raises a question as to what constitutes
freedom, and what is the ground of man‘s freedom?
“The question is thus
inevitably a philosophical and religious question, and all the more religious in
Western culture because of the influence of Christianity.”
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM
The idea of education and freedom in
the early Americas was synonymous. In the Colonies, and later in America,
education was Christian. Historically, this idea was cited clearly in such
documents as the 1663 Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas:
“No man shall be
permitted to be a free man of Carolina, or to have any estate of habitation
within it that doth not acknowledge a God, and that God is publicly and solemnly
to be worshipped.”
On June 21, 1776 John Adams stated:
"Statesmen, my dear
Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty; but it is Religion and Morality alone,
which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The
only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be
inspired into our People, in a greater measure, than they have it now, they may
change their Rules and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a
lasting liberty.”
If the Principles of the Christian
faith are omitted and denied the children in the educational process, then true
freedom will be lost. America’s modern educators expound Marxist and
evolutionary theories in order to dumb down a generation into blind submission
to the Messianic Statist Power. Original American education and secular humanism
are contrary terms, which conflict and antagonize one another. The teaching that
passes for education today is nothing more than carefully selected academic
propaganda, designed to bring a people into the snare of bondage and tyranny.
The only hope for the reinstitution of
Christian Ideals and Godly Principles lies in the glorious efforts of those
God-fearing parents, who refuse to render to Caesar those children that belong
to God.
RA
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