My friend Sean posted on his blog on myspace has an interesting conversation starter about religion in schools and the following is my response to him.

When we Chloe in to school this year I was having a discussion with the owner of the Montessori School about what I did and who I worked for (I’m a minister and work for a church that was started by another well known church in town). She asked why we didn’t want Chloe in a "Christian school" like the one offered by the well known church had? I told that its my responsibility to teach her about God not a schools and if we were providing her that education then we didn’t need to rely on her school whether public or private. In fact I almost rather her not be in a school that doesn’t hold to Christian belief the way we do.

I understand not having religion in school and don’t think its needed. We have rights like all other groups on campus do to hold meetings (like FCA) and we can pray whenever we want and don’t need a specific moment in the day to talk with God. Teaching religion in school is a crutch for the students and their parents. It all stems from the Constantine idea that religion needs to be a part of the government and since that dream Christianity has be hijacked and taken for a ride to prove points and agendas. The church flourishes as an underground movement focused on people and doctrine (which is what most class on religion end up being about) just look at Christianity in country’s where it is banned like China and Burma, North Korea and India. Its amazing the power of God moving in people to keep meeting to worship and praise Him despite knowing they could be taken away to prison and tortured. Compare that to America full of lazy Christians who sit on their butts and do nothing. Finally we have come to a generation of Christian today that have picked up the things that matter most to God, loving Him and loving people and are doing great things to help in social justice all over the US and the world. Sorry for the rant, just something I think about all the time.

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