It Makes No Sense
It makes no sense. None at all. None.
It is a public high school. Administration, faculty and students gather and
pray. Where is the ACLU when you need them? Don't they know that you can't have
public school teachers, administrators and students praying together? Don't they
know they are jeopardizing our constitutional freedoms by allowing such? Keep
prayer at church! Don't allow religious yearnings to be expressed in such a
public forum. In the case of religious expression, have we not learned that our
constitution means we are free to express ourselves in such matters as long as
we are not in any way associated with the state at the time?
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense that the teaching of Biblically based morality, or that there
is (or even may be) a God that created us in His image, or that principles of
right and wrong are absolute and real; it makes no sense that the teaching of
these things are prohibited and that public schools must pretend that these are
all non issues. Refer to these things at all and a teacher could well be in a
"heap o' trouble!" Never mind that to the degree that we are committed to these
Biblical principles, to that degree we are a safer and happier nation.
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense that teachers and children must not participate in these
things together until tragedy strikes and the innocent are dead and dying, and
then coming together to call upon God for comfort and strength is permissible,
at least until a proper period of mourning is complete. Then I suppose it
becomes unconstitutional once again.
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense that prayer is not allowed to prevent tragedy, but only as a
response to tragedy which has already occurred.
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense to say that our ancestors crawled out of primitive ooze,
fought their way up the evolutionary chain to our present state, and then to
suggest that murdering one another is somehow wrong. Isn't that what evolution
and "survival of the fittest" is all about? The unfit perish. the slowest,
weakest, less adaptable are removed as the stronger and fitter survive to
produce young. and so forth. Listen! That is what many of our schools must teach
today, while at the same time they are required to ignore the creation theory.
And then we wring our hands when some young person or persons get guns and bombs
and take their rightful places in the evolution of the race by removing some of
the less fit specimens, and we ask "How could such and such a tragedy happen?"
But I wonder, "How could it not happen?"
Readers; It only makes sense to call the events of Littleton, Paducah,
Jonesborough and others "tragedies" if the victims were something more than the
products of cold, blind chance. And they are. The schools just are not permitted
to teach them so. At one time they were, before the reinterpretation of the
constitution. Do you, like me, think that sometimes it appears as if our nation
is in a whirlwind of moral confusion and tragedy? Why do we expect any
different? We are sowing the wind, just as certainly as those of Hosea's day.
"For they sow the wind, And they reap the whirlwind. The
standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers
would swallow it up." (Hosea 8:7)
By Jon W. Quinn
From Expository Files 6.5; May 1999
