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NINE, NEIN!
Sprawl at Leisure, Repent without Pleasure
News 429. The CMI
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Chapter 3
Let me at once apply this, before
returning to the theme centrally.
There has been in South
Australia an abomination just committed by a body which has control, most
unfortunately, of non-Christian Schools as far as their curriculum is
concerned, and also, it seems in terms of what they may teach, the way it
is done and the perspectives employed, where they may teach it and how.
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This appalling lurch into the
dictatorial is in the sharpest possible contrast to the concept floated by
the Government of having schools with more power to determine their own
affairs. Now EVEN PRIVATE SCHOOLS, where parents may spend the odd $18,000
per year or more for the student year, are to have philosophic drivel
made compulsory, while correctly produced and defensible modes of scientific
method approach are excluded (cf. Scientific Method)
by authority.
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Of what does it remind
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more than of the shameless shambles
of the Inquisition,
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where papal misuse of Christ's name
(cf. Matthew 23:10-12, SMR pp. 911ff.,
946ff.,
1032-1088H)
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was used to abuse reality contrary
both to the Bible's authority and its content.
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We need no secular papacy; truth is
far better.
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It is not entirely that they have
taken sudden leave of their senses, in this matter. People often do
in the political, military and religious domains. In fact, it was inn 1988
that there was a Government Circular to Principals, in this much afflicted and misled
State of South Australia, which if not as horrendous, was of the same vintage, a
very strong one. The follies of this have not only been set forth on the Web for
many years (TMR
Ch. 8l), but have been shown
to a number of successive Governments. No rational reply has ever
been received to the presentation made. Some of its other elements are available
here.
We reached the point, before
one of my colleagues in another Church deserted, of presenting the matters at length and personally in the
Premier's office.
There was to be action, we were
assured; but in the end, as always, the expressed desire which we
presented, for debate was bypassed, the issue was sent on to the Minister
for Education, and irrelevancies were written. These neither answered the
question put nor proceeded to debate. Such things in a democracy should be made
public, before the next generation is subjected to blinkers, rational discussion
of creation issues excluded from science, and decisive discussions of the same
kind, from all subjects. It is not perhaps a police State, but it
certainly has some of these characteristics as far as children are concerned, as
along with physical force, is typical of Hitler Youth and Communist Youth
propaganda efforts. Descend to the level, and wail for man, in prison so young.
The publicly expressed desire for
debate was ignored. This was a good opportunity lost;
but at least the main thrust was heard in private, and the presentation even
received some congratulation from the Staff concerned.
The Government was warned. But the
children in Government Schools continued to suffer. It is necessary at all times
not to give way to any harassment concerning the truth, any compulsion to yield
on issues of obedience to Christ, such as bringing up the child in the
fear and admonition of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4).
You may say that you can give
them adequate religious instruction, and then let them free to the
academic wolves, and administrative seducers. Yet this is to avoid the issue. To
be sure, if you are killed, you cannot do more here. If you are fined and lose
your fortune because of persecution, you have little access, immediately at
least, to means of contest. But if you lose the heart of your child to
endless, pernicious, illogical, unscientific and indeed scientistic distortions,
who is responsible ?
One Principal of a nearby Christian
School once told me that he had received a confrontation on an allied issue. Was
he to be permitted to choose his teachers, with some regard at least to their
moral principles ? NO, he was not, came the answer of authority. He must have no
such standards. Very well, he told me, he gave them this answer: In that case
we will close down the school, and you will have 500 children on your
hands. They did not pursue it, I understood, and he neither closed the
school nor his moral insistence in the field.
IF you are working for Christ, you
betray or keep His standards. If you are NOT working for Christ, what has that
to do with it ? Work for the night is coming in which no man can work; and that
is now very near (John 9:4). A branch abides in the vine and bears fruit,
and has no other sap controlling it than that of the vine, which allies itself
to John 14:26, Ephesians 3:16 and 5:18. You do not produce lemons on an orange
tree, nor that matter, figs from thistles.
Thus there is only one final
course, if all negotiations fail in the private school sector, or the Christian
part of it in South Australia, and that is, if this be insisted on, to
close the schools, and not let them be made captives IN Christ. Was Peter put in
prison because he obeyed the High Priest and said no more, or because he
did not allow the voice of the Church of God to be stilled, and even, in
one imprisonment, being delivered, even continued to deliver the necessary
Gospel message outside it!
It may become necessary to
take the case to court, to the so caring Government, to the Commonwealth, and of
course, to show the appalling and reckless confrontation which this
represents with this nation's ostensible subscription to the UN
Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination
Based on Religion or Belief
The Declaration announces that its makers are
"concerned by manifestations of intolerance
and by the existence of discrimination in matters of religion or belief
still in evidence in some areas of the world..."
They declared themselves: "Resolved to adopt all
necessary measures for the speedy elimination of such intolerance in all its
forms and manifestations and to prevent and combat discrimination on the ground
of religion or belief ..."
In Article 2, 2 of that Declaration,
we have this announcement.
For the purposes of the present
Declaration, the expression "intolerance and discrimination based on religion or
belief" means any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on
religion or belief and having as its purpose or as its effect nullification or
impairment of the recognition, enjoyment or exercise of human rights and
fundamental freedoms on an equal basis.
The UN of course has
small protection, even forwarding its own brand of humanist religion. Thus, in
the Declaration on Child
Rights, which is already named in one of the Human Rights powers by law, this is
exhibited categorically. In Article 5, it has this to say:
"... the child
shall be protected from any form of discrimination on the ground of religion or
belief. He (sic) shall be brought up in a spirit of ... universal brotherhood,
respect for freedom of religion or belief of others, and in full consciousness
that his energy and talents should be devoted to the service of his fellowman."
Moreover,
"practices of a religion or beliefs in
which a child is brought up must not be injurious to his physical or mental
health or to his full development ..."
This with Article 5 could easily be made into a
conjunction, so that NOT bringing up the child in the assigned manner could be
CALLED injurious. Universal brotherhood is scarcely in accord with Christ
statement about one other religion, that of the Pharisees and those who rejected
Him in this and allied ways:
"You are of your
father, the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is
no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he
is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell you the truth, you do not
believe Me."
However, the Commonwealth Constitution
in Article 116 prohibits the Commonwealth from making
"ANY LAW FOR ESTABLISHING ANY
RELIGION, OR FOR IMPOSING
ANY RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE, OR FOR PROHIBITING
THE FREE EXERCISE OF ANY RELIGION,
AND NO RELIGIOUS TEST SHALL BE REQUIRED AS A QUALIFICATION..."
Both the imposition and the prevention
of free exercise is involved, in that what is contrary to Christ, for
example, in this UN document is now law. The effect of the law is not entirely
the point; it is the PRESENCE of such a law, which, being the case, is in
contravention of the Australian Constitution.
The S.A. matter
involves State-funded education which excludes the scientific position of
creationism from consideration in science classes within the Government
schooling system, while allowing organic evolution as a theory and suffering no
view contrary to it to be assessed. This it does in opposition to the far more
tolerant and scientific position of the Queensland Government. Indeed, it
contravenes scientific method IN THIS VERY SELECTIVE and governmentally
MANDATORY MANNER OF APPROACH (cf. That Magnificent Rock Ch.8, p.
220, note 5; and
Ch.1),
as well as in the internal procedures
which allow such preference in detail for such (inadequate) theory over raw
facts with exclusion if freedom to use honest steps to assess all comers,
examining and discriminating in a just and warranted sense ONLY, as
evidence and logic require.
That sort of discrimination is another
term, means intellectual perception and realisation, the opposite of the other,
which means obstructive insistence on preference, without equity.
Further the
assault on religion is EXPRESS AND EXPLICIT, being in fact a rather tired old
form of liberalism being brought out from moth-balls without any vestige of
rational support EVEN ATTEMPTED, one which seeks to characterise all religions
in a manner so unscientific and unscholarly as to be no more nor less than an
abuse of power and the making of religion a personal fiefdom of government. It
is also a vilification of Christianity, Biblically defined, in particular, so
slackly casual, and a generalisation so wholly imprecise as to show for all time
the folly of government without divine sanction, simply ruling its sweet will in
the most ultimate affairs of the life of mankind. (Cf.
SMR pp. 179ff.,
485ff..)
All this is shown,
the breaches in a Government document to schools and the errors in detail, in
That Magnificent Rock
Ch. 8. Such elements and more have been made known to successive premiers or
opposition leaders, including one who leader who shelved it after asking for an
alternative treatment to the one then in vogue. When however, he was given this
other way of handling the issues, it was met without reply; and so it has
proceeded to the present S.A. Government which continues to provide no rational
ground for its action, merely citing others who favour it, accepts no debate and
continues in a most disgraceful exhibition of pertinacious philosophic
dictatorship in the area.
Of this, too many examples have
already been seen in this century, from nominally opposite camps, during various
wars. Such is not the path of peace, and though Christians are peaceable, and
honest and open debate is mere delight when it is available in a way this State
has been notable for omitting both in University in Adelaide and in Government
areas, yet the fruits of such dark unrighteousness do not exalt a nation.
Indeed, the free
examination of all things and the freedom to point out logical errors in
anything, are vital and healthy; and restrictive confinements of facts in
subordination to feelings and fantasies by means of merely directive authority are
only one step from disaster; whereas, to the contrary,
that is only for good which is interested in healthy debate and honourable
evidencing of reality, openly to all with ground always available for
refutation, qualification and sustainable evidence. Instead, we get dreams,
based on the unobservable, the hopeful, like a sort of biological Micawber,
straight from the ironic pen of Charles Dickens.
It is always looking for what it never
finds, energetically descrying in the clouds of thought what on no single
occasion demonstrates a law, attests new information on design type, or has the
courtesy or brazenness actually to HAPPEN! Authority binding up options however,
this certainly has the brazenness to happen, and has already happened in many a
scene in various countries.
Dictatorship is only one step away when reality is
philosophically bound for citizens as a condition of citizenship; and the more
so when the philosophic delusion is acute, as here (cf. TMR
Chs. 1 and
7 ,
The gods of naturalism have no go!
and Causes). Indeed a healthy
desire to avoid stuffy obscurantism once was strong in this country. Now it is
in danger of being tamed, so that cancers of the soul may be protected under
mandate, established by law; and they are being established by law, and may soon
be further so. The ímage of the beast' is precisely, as in Revelation 13 with
Daniel 7 and 2, that projection of political cum religious authoritarianism,
packed with mystique, humanistic with religious overtones, which seeks as it has
long sought, to put its OWN imprimatur on things, not by reason but by ruthless
force, one that cannot listen, that is obsessive with delusion (as in II
Thessalonians 2), hectic with power lust. It is a spirit which has manifested
itself in Hitler's genetic racism as in Mao's philosophic determinism (cf.
Repent or Perish Ch. 7,
Christ Incomparable ... Ch. 2 and
Index).
It stoops to anything; stops at
nothing: for that is the nature of its pathology. UNABLE to convince by reason,
it frequently feels impelled to use ... other means.
The Biblical position
is notable for its internal insistence (e.g. Isaiah 41,43,48) on CHECKING THE
FACTS, examining the evidence and not shutting the eyes. Honesty and integrity
are like milk to the Biblical Christian, whilst privilege-giving laws can act
like sledge hammers on watch-works! We do not really need a Government to think
for us, far less international governments whose records in tolerance and
fidelity are not always such as to evoke a keen admiration.
Science education cannot be permitted
to become a
fad matter of a passing wave of atheist philosophy, materialist-controlled
assumption, or pseudo-god-controlling
input from those who happen to be controlling the waves both of authority and of
propaganda, to its detriment. If it does not insist on atheism or materialism,
it insists - at the very least, on the sacred sanctions of the latter.
Religion is by permission, whatever it says and why; and in this aspect, there
is permission for what does not upset the presuppositions of farce, which
without absolute truth available on its OWN model, nevertheless lay it down, as
with a wand. This is done instead of facing the realities of logic and the
empirical in their demonstrable bonding
(on which see further in
SMR pp.
140ff.,The
gods of naturalism have no go!
Deity and Design ...
esp. 8 , and
Freedom, the Nation, the
Internet and the Next Generation Ch. 3
(a good sequel to this Chapter) with
Light Dwells with the Lord's Christ,
Who Answers Riddles
and Where He Is, Darkness Departs).
If
evolution could stand, let it. If it falls, let it. If creation
can stand, let it, and if it should fall, let it.
In fact, however, God is well
able to exhibit His power, having done so in person and prediction, proposition
and performance over all of human history*1 (cf. SMR,
TMR, The Pitter-Patter
... Ch. 4, with history in
the Index).
It is the a priori exclusion which, though fully understandable for what
cannot defend itself, is anti-scientific and personally persecutory to students,
a buffoonery to which the term UNSCIENTIFIC MUST APPLY!
In fact, organic evidence never
shows any direct, logical or empirical evidence, and is merely a mistake made between the variation about a
type which is observable, and the invention of types which is not. IF this sort
of liberty is not allowed, then this assuredly IS religion and hence DOES
violate the Commonwealth's commitment to the said Declaration, and that, it is
not only to the States, but to all the citizens, some of which are
in the States, and some in controlling bodies like this, which then come to be
in violation of national law, as well as natural liberty and rational
arguability by FIAT.
On the contrary, let's be reasonable;
for God is.
NOTE
*1
See on various elements of this matter, with historical impact, some
overflowing into the political, prophetic, logical, developmental,
the testimony of time, such items as the following:
Bon Voyage 1, 2 - 3;
Overflight in Christ
Ch.
1,
with
News
37.
44,
69,
97 (the exploiters, the fanciful,
the Communists, the de-godders and the realities),
98,
News
150
- Taiwan,
The Grating
Grandeur and Aggrandisement of Man,
and the Meekness of the Majestic Messiah Ch.
2
Beauty for Ashes
Ch.
6 (and
Hong Kong, and the movement
of nations in the last century a concern),
and
Christ's Ineffable Peace
... Ch. 7 (esp.
*1 on historicism);
Dastardly Dynamics ... and Immovable Faith Ch.
6,
SMR,
TMR
Dig Deeper, Higher Soar Ch 2,
*4A
Journey to God Ch
2 (angelic
overview!),
.
Tender Times ... Ch. 8
esp. pp.
106ff.(changeless gospel and devilish
devices);
The Glow of Predestinative Power Ch.
8 (and measures of
divine, predestinative oversight amidst human liberty: duty,
destiny, will and wisdom);
Beyond the Crypt, the Divine Script ...
1 (survey in terms
of rule).
Jesus
Christ, Defaced, Unfazed
... Ch. 3
Repent or Perish Ch. 7.
Basic references more
broadly include:
SMR pp.
140ff.,The
gods of naturalism have no go!
Deity and Design ...
esp. 8 , and
Freedom, the Nation, the
Internet and the Next Generation Ch. 3
(a good sequel to this Chapter) with
Light Dwells with the Lord's Christ,
Who Answers Riddles
and Where He Is, Darkness Departs.