Every Atom,Every Square Inch, A Fathers Day Charge

Not to pile on, ok why not pile on, Otto Scott the man who coined the term the Silent Majority in 1985 wrote ..."By the dawn of this century the Marxists realized that direct assaults on Christianity did not persuade so much as provoke. They had more success with their argument that religion is a purely private matter- of no concern to government or to a society as such"...

John Dewey and the other leading humanists of the day learned this lesson well and began to slowly undermine Christianity by making God irrelevant to most of life.

Now today Gary North had some observations that fit in with our current topic. The relevance of God to society and the different ways the culture gets Christians to cooperate in keeping God out of sight and out of mind. Here Gary explains the easy way in which higher education performs this hat trick. Look nothing up the sleeve...

..."There are hundreds of Ph.D.-holding economists who are Christians. Many belong to the Association of Christian Economists, which publishes a journal and has for 25 years. Yet this journal is unknown to the economics profession. It is also unknown to the Christian public. It does not have "Christian" in its title. Professors are rarely marketers...

So, I still have a virtual monopoly over the term, "Christian economics." But how can I keep it when there are hundreds of Christian economists? Because of the nature of academia. I had spotted this weakness by 1963. I figured I would take advantage of it.

America's tax-funded, state-accredited educational system forces all religious groups to submit to this principle: "God is irrelevant to real-world truth. America's schools are committed to the pursuit of real- world truth. So, you must leave God outside the classroom. If this is K-12, leave him off campus." The education system is operationally atheistic. It screens everyone, from kindergarten through tenure, by means of this filter: "God has no Ph.D. God is not accredited. Ignore God."
The tenure track at any tax-funded university legally denies the existence of religion's authority over any academic discipline. Those who object are screened out early. This in turn shapes the curriculum in every accredited religious college, which must staff their faculties with Ph.D.-holding graduates who have gone through the system.

I have written on how the academic guilds filter mavericks. If you send a child to college, be prepared for this process. I call it the academic meat grinder

The academic system screens out my potential competitors. They are allowed to be Christians, but in the classroom of most universities and all tax-funded universities, they must be silent Christians. They must not promote something called Christian economics.

So, in order to pursue careers in the world of academia, my potential competitors have removed themselves from the off-campus market in which I operate."...

The emphasis was mine. I am also providing a link to a recent generations Broadcast, along these same lines, where Swanson shows how Romans chpt 13 doesn’t mean what most of us evangelicals think it means. Disagreement with the Government.

We must become familiar , confident, and articulate in asserting the Lordship of Jesus Christ over every area of Life. We will be patient, faithful to our Lord, diligent in applying his word. We are having to unlearn a lot. We will thump ourselves many a time with the biblical nunchucks. But the fruit will be the tearing down of strongholds and everything that exalts itself against the glory of God. An even bigger payoff will be with future generations, if we will make Gods word as frontlets for our childrens eyes, that they see and interpret all creation through his word.

This is Gods charge to us as Fathers as seen all over Deuteronomy and the old testament. This is Gods purpose for us as fathers. It is the most important ministry we will ever engage in. Like most of us I feel inadequate, having seen manhood ridiculed for most of my life, and can think that im too far behind the 8ball. But If we will be faithfull to what God has declared, then we can be persuaded that he who has begun a good work in us will complete it.

Its all about what God has said, not what we think. I need to practice, what did I do with my nunchucks?