when conservitive Christians say they want Christanity taught in school,which denomination will be dominant?

Question

there are so many interpretations of the Christian faith, which one are they going to go with?

Answer 1

Well are founding Fathers set up this country on Christ and His teaching. they believed that the Bible should be part of every day life. during the 1960 s the government decided to move education to a morally neutral postion. teaching nothing is good or bad but rather just basic education. after the plan was implamented and they saw more and more bad things happening in the schools one of the designers of the plan stated. that we took everything into considertion except one thing evil. here is some quotes from are founding fathers the first is Dr. Rush who started the public schools.

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this Divine Book, above all others, constitutes the soul of republicanism.” “By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.” [Letter written (1790’s) in Defense of the Bible in all schools in America]
• “Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.”
• “If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into our world would have been unnecessary.”

"Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write and above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education”
Letters of Benjamin Rush, "To the citizens of Philadelphia: A Plan for Free Schools", March 28, 1787

here is what Thomas Paine had to say
“ It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.”
“ The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.” “The Existence of God--1810”


and George Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”

“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” [speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779]

and last Noah Webster

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
[Source: 1828, in the preface to his American Dictionary of the English Language

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” [Noah Webster. History. p. 339]

“The Bible was America’s basic textbook
in all fields.” [Noah Webster. Our Christian Heritage p.5]

“Education is useless without the Bible” [Noah Webster. Our Christian Heritage p.5 ]

so as you can see that the founders believed teaching from the Bible was vital for upholding the Freedom that was given them. they wanted a society based on Jesus.so would say just teach from the bible and leave the denomations out of it.

Answer 2

I run in Christian circles, and most intelligent Christians do not want Christianity taught in our public schools. I'm an Orthodox Christian and would not be overly excited if a Jehovah Witness' curriculum was in place in my public school. The public school is to teach my child to read, write do math and science. Keep the religion to the parents and the Church's. Unfortunately, most parents are forfeiting more responsibility to the school system and expecting them to instill morals and babysit. This is not their job. Most, Christians, who have thought about the religion in school debate, would solely like it taught in private Christian schools. The only thing that bothers me a bit is the teaching of evolution, which is a theory. Evolution should be taught as a theory and the flip side of this theory is divine design. In fact, religion is taught in our public schools; it's the religion of secular humanism and political correctness. Divine design should at least be presented as a viable alternative to fill the gaps in evolution. While religion should not be taught in school; doctrine which is polar to Christianity should also not be taught. Remember, bashing Christianity is in vogue today. Just look at this question board for proof.

Answer 3

I as a christian do not want Christianity taught in schools, but I believe if evolution as a Theory can be taught, then Creationism as a theory should also be taught. Evolution is taught in schools now as if was totally proven fact. It is not. There is as much evidence for a young earth as a old earth, why isn't that taught at all? Teach all theory, no doctrine, let students research and decide for themselves

Answer 4

It would be a violation of US Separation of Church and State, as the public schools will be favouring Christianity over other religions. Their position is completely untenable.

However, I have no issue with Christianity being taught in schools. I live in the UK. We have no Official Separation of Church and State. By law it's supposed to be taught in schools, and look at how many fundamentalist Christians we have!

Answer 5

Your question is very good. It would be nice if Scriptures were taught in their truth, and in their entirety. However I have yet to find a division of "churchianity" that follows Scripture! To begin at the beginning... Honor YHVH the Almighty... Recognize the Savior Yahoshua.... Respect the special days they have set apart for rest and worship (the Seventh day Sabbath, the New Moons, etc) He will judge , and almost all will be found wanting. As it was in the days of Noah... (only 8 were saved then...)

Answer 6

I would be more supportive to a "Comparative Religion" course. Where the histories and basic tenants of faith are discussed. Not as a means to convert someone but to educate them. I don't understand why "Conservative" Christians want Christianity taught in school, isn't that what church and Sunday school are for?

Answer 7

I say teach your kids at home, or send them to a christian school. I think if the school teaches anything that goes aganist there religion that they should not have to be graded on that, but instead make them do something else. The teaching of God's word should come from the home and church.

Answer 8

None. What we want is for the Historic place of Christianity in The USA to be taught. We want children to know what impact Christianity had in the development of American Democracy.

Answer 9

I'm not so sure it would be a good idea to teach Christianity in a public school perse. What I would LIKE to see happen, is for them to teach Creationism alongside evolution.

Answer 10

Non Denominational, I hope.