[Esaias]

8. All eight objections are useless – the good school district excuse; the salt and light excuse; the sunday school excuse; the family influence/devotions excuse; the exception excuse; the can't afford private school excuse; the can't homeschool excuse; the state forbids it excuse.

Objection 1 – The vast majority of parents believe that the nation's schools are terrible, but they also believe that their own school district is great or better than the rest. This is impossible, that most people know the public schools are bad, but yet the same people believe their own school district is the exception! This can only be explained by the fact that everyone wants to believe it is bad “over there” and not in their own school system, which is called denial. It is as if everyone believed that fast food restaurants are bad and unhealthy, but yet everyone believed their local fast food joint was the rare exception! If the nation's schools are bad, and if everyone everywhere believes so, yet everyone everywhere believes their own schools are fine, and not like the rest, then it follows that everyone everywhere is DELUDED. Either everyone's schools are fine, and thus none are really that bad and everyone is mistaken about everyone else's schools, or everyone is mistaken about their own schools. Either way, this excuse fails miserably.

Objection 2 – Sending children to be 'salt and light' is a failed excuse. It rarely turns out that way. Many studies show that as many as 75 percent of Christian children leave the church when they graduate from public high school. Most Christian students are not evangelising their schools, instead they are enticed to sin, afflicted with doubts and fears, suffer ungodly pressures from not only their peers but teachers and administrators. It is no different than a preacher who went to a strip club every week, and tips the dancers, and who says he is being “salt and light” to the sinners. Nay, who sends his CHILDREN to the strip club to be “salt and light”! Parents who say they need to send their children to public schools to be “salt and light” are simply making excuses for their laziness and apathy in regards to their children's upbringing. This excuse fails miserably.

Objection 3 – Sunday school? 30-45 minutes a week (if that) of supposed religious instruction (which often is really just mindless entertainments) are going to counteract and overthrow 40 hours per week of detailed, well-planned, intentionally antichristian indoctrination, which was specifically designed by psychologists and experts to counteract all that Sunday school and church influence? An indoctrination program which includes such incentives as massive unrelenting peer pressure, quick and easy access to sex and drugs, abortions on demand with no parental notification, free condoms, free instruction in perversions which are taught as great and desirable things to practice, along with unrelenting constant affirmation of lies, a steady unending diet of evolutionary fables, an artificial and well constructed yet wholly isolated environment which pretends God does not exist at all, where God is often actively denigrated? Not to mention the pressure of grades, threat of suspension, academic failure or success depending on one's collusion and cooperation with the ungodly and their ungodly ideologies, the threat of having one's “permanent record” marred for life, one's entire future life being dependent on one's performance in this socialist, humanist, antichristian system? What happens if a child “fails” Sunday school? Compare that to what happens if a child fails public school, and it is clear the amount of influence each will have on the mind and development of the child in comparison to the other. Yet another pathetic, failed excuse.

Objection 4 – Family devotions? Again, how can a few minutes every week, or even every day, counteract the sheer immensity of pressure brought to bear upon a child's mind by the ubiquitous and oppressive anti-God and anti-good public school system? Especially in light of the fact that statistics prove this approach simply does not work – most Christian youth who attend public school LEAVE THE FAITH when they graduate!

Objection 5 – The exception, the child who made it through public school but stayed true to God and remained true to God afterwards? The fact that such people are in fact exceptions proves the point: you are betting against the casino, and the souls of your children – and yours as well – are at stake. The majority of children who play in the middle of the highway get hit by cars. Does the fact that some children have played in the street and yet have not been hit justify sending your child to play in the street? Would you be a good, godly parent for doing so, betting against the odds, gambling on your child's life? No, it's another failed excuse.

Objection 6 – Can't afford private school? But you can afford cable tv, the multiple smart phones, the jet skis, the big screen tv, the restaurants, the extra car, the boat, this hobby and that hobby, the credit cards? You gain the world and lose your own soul. Amazingly, parents can't afford 1000-3000 dollars a year for Christian education, but can mysteriously afford to spend that amount on their kids anyway even with sending them to public school. And if one truly cannot cut any expenses to cover the cost of private Christian education without losing one's home, the lights being turned off, or starving (which would be highly unlikely) then consider homeschooling. Homeschooling is usually much less expensive than hiring a private school or tutor. In fact, homeless single moms have successfully homeschooled their kids. Kids have even homeschooled themselves. One could actually develop a homeschool curriculum that is entirely free using the internet, the local library, or a combination of both. Would you agree to send your child to hell, and yourself with them, because you “didn't have the money” to do otherwise? Most who make this excuse often have never actually sat down and seriously gone over their finances to see if it really was feasible. Thus, most who make this excuse just don't actually want to make the effort to give their children a Christian, Biblical education. Another fail, and the lake of fire still awaits.

Objection 7 – Can't homeschool? Says who? The cost is less than conventional private school. In fact, it could be done for free. Don't know how? You can learn a subject right along with your children. ANYTHING CAN BE DONE IF YOU HAVE THE WILL AND DETERMINATION TO DO IT. This writer and his wife homeschooled seven children, at times while being broke, unemployed, with no vehicle, effectively homeless living in someone else's garage, and when income was available it was a one-income budget. It can be done if you actually want to. And with the proliferation of free materials on the internet to help beginning homeschooling families, there really is NO EXCUSE.

Objection 8 – My state forbids it. We must obey God rather than men. If you won't give your child a Christian, Biblical education, and deliver them out of the hand of the wicked, simply because some evil, godless bureaucrat “disallows” it, then how can you possibly claim to be a Christian? Christian, but only if it doesn't cost time, money, effort, or stress? Another failed excuse, one which satan loves probably more than any other, because it is an admission of cowardice, pure and simple. And the fearful shall have their part in the lake of fire, according to Jesus Christ, in Revelation chapter 21 verse 8.