"At this point, there are many, many pastors and parents who need to be educated about our obligation to provide a Christian education to our children," Shortt told WND.com.

"In time, most [SBC members] are going to understand better that the little red schoolhouse has really become the little white sepulcher, and it's a seething cauldron of spiritual, moral and academic mythologies," states Bruce N. Shortt, a homeschooling father. He also holds advanced degrees from Harvard and Stanford, according to WorldNetDaily's Ron Strom.

The headline reads: "Baptist activists: Pull kids out of school."

I taught in the public school system. There I was harnessed daily in that I could not mention God or anything approaching biblical morality. Yet there were students in front of me daily who were caught in destructive nets: drugs, alcohol, sexual activity, occultism, demonism and a myriad of family dysfunctions. However, I could do nothing more than work within the godless academic boundaries guarded tenaciously by the authorities.

One day I inadvertently mentioned something about church to a male student. The school principal called me into her office to inform me in no uncertain terms that I had gone over the boundaries. From then on, I could tell that vigilant eyes from all staff were watching my every move, hearing my every word.

Once I emailed to a fellow teacher a humor bit that dealt with religion. It was totally harmless - a benign almost-joke. The teacher to whom I emailed that slice of fun ran with it to the principal, claiming I had discussed religion with staff!

The principal instructed me that what I had done was "inappropriate" -- one of the favorite cliche terms in today's schools. I could hardly believe what a fellow teacher had done for we daily exchanged laugh notes; but obviously he concluded that he was going to poke at my Christian lifestyle to make life miserable.

When substitute teaching in various public schools, I watched every word, every move. I noted a few devotional notations on teachers' desks, personal reminders to them of positive thinking.

But I never made mention of them. I never referred to them when seeing the teacher or leaving my own notes concerning the workings of that school day. I knew that anything having to do with God or Christianity had to be put in the closet with the door locked tightly shut.

Now the Baptists are going after this godless school system in God Bless America. They're reality-in-the-front-lines so as to meet at next month's annual conclave with strong, realistic resolutions to pass along to their grassroots.

With police in school hallways, bomb threats, drug trafficking, obscenities tolerated, the Pledge of Allegiance treated as a ho-hum if acknowledged at all, and absolutely no observance of anything Christian morality-based, it's time for Christians to take charge of their own families.

They must decide in truth what they're going to do to rescue their sons and daughters from an increasingly anti-Christian school milieu. Further, it's not only increasingly secular but aggressively opposing anything religious, except for the Muslim religion.

While Christianity is treated as The Disease, school administrators are calling in Muslim educators to inform teaching staff how to accommodate to Muslim students. Teachers and support staff are being told Islam is a peace religion. They are handed a gloss over of the Koran in order to present it as a godsend to communities. The Mosque clerics are treated as "one of the town's clergy" when in fact they are instigators for violence, furthering the killing passages of the unholy Koran.

Nevertheless, with a blanket of ignorance hanging over the academic specialists, the Muslims are making big time headway - speaking to forums, providing textbooks, teachers' manuals, visual aids and anything to further Islam.

"A resolution that will be considered by the Southern Baptist Convention next month calls on the millions of members of the denomination to pull their kids out of government schools and either homeschool them or send them to Christian schools.

"Introduced by a well-known leader of the SBC and a Baptist attorney, the resolution asks 'all officers and members of the Southern Baptist Convention and the churches associated with it to remove their children from the government schools and see to it that they receive a thoroughly Christian education, for the glory of God, the good of Christ's church, and the strength of their own commitment to Jesus.'

"The authors use Scripture in the resolution to argue those Baptists who trust the public-school system with their children are being disobedient to God.

"'Government schools are by their own confession humanistic and secular in their instruction, [and] the education offered by the government schools is officially Godless," the measure states."

I homeschooled my son when he was in high school. A couple hours each morning focused on Bible and church history. Then we moved into art studies, accenting the medieval Christian art.

We of course covered the other academics, materials provided by Christian publishers; but a major portion of every school day was given to theological and biblical studies. He did not balk; instead, he thrived on it and when becoming an adult was surprised at how much Christian doctrine he had retained.

I know that much time in public school is wasted - plain and simple. It is frittered away. Truly studious pupils are continually frustrated with the dead air in each school day. Having taught in the schools, I know that to be true from an instructor's perspective.

But when homeschooling, I took that day's schedule to pack in most efficiently subjects to be covered and had no difficulty at all with the free time offering recreation and other nurturing pastimes.

"Noting that 'the millions of children in government schools spend seven hours a day, 180 days a year being taught that God is irrelevant to every area of life,' the Baptist resolution says, 'Many Christian children in government schools are converted to an anti-Christian worldview rather than evangelizing their schoolmates.'

"'The issue is this,' Shortt said, 'the government schools are killing our children morally, spiritually and academically. The question we confront as Christian parents is, how dead do we want our children to be?'"

When churches know what they're talking about regarding homeschooling options and state laws regarding homeschooling, then parents can move more intelligently in that direction.

Baptists are intent on giving their congregations state of the art information to move students out of the public schools into homeschooling or Christian schools.

"An activist says he considers sending children to government schools as 'the grossest kind of sin.'

"'Much of the SBC leadership understands this issue now,' Shortt said. 'Jack Graham, who is the current president, is very supportive of Christian education.'

If the Baptists can do it, other theologically biblical congregations can do it. There is a severe split within mainline denominations today. The conservative biblically true versus the politically liberal infiltrators wage war daily. The biblically aligned believers can see through the same agenda that the Southern Baptist Convention will be seeing through. In that, the genuine Christians can make even more headway for biblical truth in their divided denominations.

Children's futures are at stake. Instead of these youths growing up with religion on Sundays and secular faith pounded into them weekdays, they can be given the opportunity to think and grow with a Christian base to their learning. If that does not occur, the next generation brought up in Christian homes may be lost to the Christian faith due to the anti-Christian stance of America's public school system.

"If the resolution were to pass, the attorney says, it would not only 'send shockwaves through the Southern Baptist Convention,' but other conservatives in other denominations would take up the issue and push similar measures.

"Shortt says he hopes the resolution impresses on Christians the need 'to focus on rescuing our children from Pharaoh's schools.'"

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