Hurricanes:
Not the Only Storms to Hit the USA
By Dr. Christian Overman
IS
IT ANY WONDER the biblical foundations for law,
government, family, and gender that once provided
commonly accepted harbor lights for American society have
been replaced? The incessant move toward the seculariza-
tion of education and the privatization of Christianity over
the past century has been enormously successful, expedited
greatly through elementary and secondary schools.
By divorcing biblical truths about God, Creation, Human-
ity, Moral Order, and Purpose from the study of language,
math, literature, science, history, civil government, and the
arts, elementary and secondary schools created a sacred-
secular divide in the minds of youth that has spanned
several generations. Christianity was first secularized in our
schools, and this made it easy for Christianity to be priva-
tized in society. And now Christianity is being excluded
from the public square, constricted by both public opinion
and judicial pronouncements.
Strong winds are trying to confine biblical Christianity to
one’s personal life and Sunday services. Our constitutional
free exercise of religion is being re-defined as “freedom of
worship” in a building called “church.” Furthermore, that
which was first secularized and then privatized is now being
demonized. Bibliocentric Christians are branded “intoler-
ant,” “bigots,” and “haters.”
Secularized… Privatized… Demonized
What doesn’t make sense is why so many pastors have
remained silent about secularizing education. Sending a
child to a school that divorces truth from academics and
never mentions God’s purpose for learning is not wise.
Education that does not help students to see all knowledge
in the context of the true frame-of-reference is like a church
that teaches all about the Bible but makes no connections
with how to live.
Bible-believing Christians would not tolerate such a
church. Yet 85 to 90 percent of evangelical parents send
their children to schools where they are indoctrinated into
secularized-privatism. Sending kids there to be “lights in
the world” sounds good, until they come home thinking
like their textbooks, making no connections whatsoever
between any subject matter and the bigger picture of God,
Creation, Humanity, Moral Order, and Purpose. They make
no connections between God and history, and they think
Christianity is just for church, not for directing a business,
designing software, or doing civil service.
The same pastors who would never tolerate a so-called
“neutral-and-values-free” Sunday School have been silent
about a so-called “neutral-and-values-free” Monday
through Friday system that is anything but.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost. There’s
another storm in progress, more destructive than recent
hurricanes Harvey and Irma combined. Will the light of our
faith be blown out completely?
Dr. Christian Overman is the Founding Director of Worldview
Matters® (biblicalworldview.com). He is the author of Assump-
tions That Affect Our Lives and God’s Pleasure At Work & The
Difference One Life Can Make. Dr. Overman has taught on
the topic of biblical worldview and Christian education across
America, as well as abroad. He and his wife, Kathy, have four
adult children and twelve grandchildren. Contact Dr. Overman
at [email protected].
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