Sep. 29, 2009 - Education or Indoctrination? Obama Worship Songs in School

“One song that the children were taught directly quotes from the spiritual "Jesus Loves the Little Children," though Jesus' name is replaced with Obama's: "He said red, yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama."-- Fox News Politics.

I’m not sure if I should be rotfl or covering myself with ashes because of the blasphemy. I guess it doesn’t really matter what I think. What really matters is what God says. So I searched His Word, to try and find out.

I don’t find public school in the Bible; God’s Word, in Proverbs 22:6, charges parents with the responsibility for child training.

Proverbs 1:8: “Hear, my son your father’s instruction, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.”

Deuteronomy 11:19: “And you will teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.”

Furthermore, in the Ten Commandments, children are commanded “Honor your father and mother.” Ephesians 6:4 commands parents to not “exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” How can children honor parents, if schools are teaching values that parents disagree with? Won’t that exasperate the children, and incite them to anger?

This may surprise many of you, who would expect me to be opposed to the almost idolatrous promotion of Obama that is occurring in many public schools. However, let’s pretend for the moment that all of the parents of the children involved were in agreement with what the teachers did. If so, then it is appropriate to use your tax dollars to teach what you want, to your kids (not to mine). Although Obama worship really looks stupid, and promotes group think, that is the parents’ responsibility, not mine. I am responsible for what my kids learn; you are responsible for your kids.

Actually, however, in the case of the New Jersey school, at least one parent was horrified, and not in agreement. "I'm stunned -- I can't believe it's our school," said Jim Pronchik, who told FOXNews.com his 8-year-old son Jimmy was one of the 18 students in the video. "We don't want to praise this guy like he's a god or an idol or a king or anything like that. That's the wrong message to be sending."

I may not agree with you in what you say and do, but I will defend your right to have your children say it.

If my kids were in your school, and I wanted them to learn that the Bible says homosexuality is a sin, would you defend my right to have my child taught that way, using your tax dollars? Do you say “No?” Then so-called “public” schools are only public for you—not for me. Read more about government school indoctrination at Are We Sacrificing Our Children?

Daniel Webster, of dictionary fame, wrote that "If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, and the people do not become religious, I do not know what is to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; if God and His work are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; if the power of the Gospel is not felt through the length and breadth of the land, then anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."

And that’s why we homeschool.