It's nearly midnight here, and I should be getting in bed so I can enjoy the Sabbath tomorrow. Thankfully I slept in today, so I can stay up for another few hours and be fine. I mean, be mostly fine.
Lately I have been accosted by many troubling situations, mostly by friends who, I found out, no longer consider themselves to be "Christian". These are people who have, at least to my general knowledge, been reasonably active "Christians", and people who I never would have suspected to desert "the faith".
You will notice I put a few choice words in quotation marks, and perhaps you wonder why I did that? I have been thinking, since this happened, about how several of my friends currently attend church, and if pressed would probably say they are "Christian", but in reality I would not be able to tell. What I mean is, I think a disturbingly large percentage of youth presently attending church have not made a conscious decision to believe the need for God's saving sacrifice.
Many times I have even become dissapointed by the lack of commitment shown in the current "youth" of the church, and I wonder why it is that this could happen.
In a large part, I would place the blame on the previous generation, for not raising their children as they ought. I have spoken against public education before, and the more I study the Bible the more strongly I conclude that public education is a sin. Not just "a bad idea" but a sin, and like murder and theft it has far-reaching results. While this may be a conversation for another time, I would place the blame for the failure of this generation on the failure of the previous generation to actively take part in their childrens education.
Bit I digress.
When I see all of these people, and don't know if they are saved or not, it makes me wonder: "Do they know that I am a Christian, or do they just assume?" Must I always say "I am a Christian" when I see people? Certainly I must not be ashamed to say it, but should I say it all the time, just to remind everyone?
These are the things which keep me awake late at night.
That and wondering if I could assemble a Victorian era suit for a reasonable price.
It is very late.
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I have been feeling similar to you regarding the youth of today (heck, we're getting old fast!).
I agree with your estimation of the root cause of this problem: parents' resignation of their responsibility to raise their own children and their subsequent abandoning of them to the institutional evil of government education.
I believe parents may send their children to government "educational" facilities without intentionally sinning. At best, this is unwise.
However, I'm hard-pressed to think of a detailed argument that would remove this action from the category of unintentional sin.
(On an humorous note, the conservative talk show hosts Chuck and Larry Bates have said that if you send your kid to public school, you hate him).
By the way, I'm excited to say that I've found a free Online version of the one-of-a-kind book "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America." Check it out at http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
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