Propaganda in the schools will preach tolerance and, by implication, the errors of fundamentalism. Power and money will take away from fundamentalists the opportunity for equal means to educate their own children or to spread their particular views. This procedure appears to mean, 'We will tolerate you temporarily, but we will make sure by political power that we seize the minds of your children and educate them against your views.' Tolerance has apparently become intolerance. People who abhor oppression nevertheless oppress. People who abhor dogmatism turn dogmatic. People who may say that all their knowledge is tentative, and who may even say that there is no absolute truth, have remarkable confidence in their ability to use political power. They craft a compulsory educational system that they allege will solve our moral problems... Implicitly, they have supposed that they can diagnose the deepest ills behind human moral failures. They are really proposing an alternative means of salvation, a means of rescue from the evils of the human heart. That amounts to an alternative religion.
- Vern S. Poythress, Redeeming Science, pg 61-62
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Jonah (Admin)
7/3/2015 08:08:08 am
Poythress, Vern S. "Knowledge From Whose Authority?" Redeeming Science: A God-centered Approach. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006.
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Debra Anderson
9/1/2015 05:17:20 am
Glad to see your choice of authors on your blog - and especially Poythress. Actually made his book on language required reading for Round Table last year. He seems to have his finger on the modern (or postmodern) political pulse. His work, as far as I have read anyway, supports and defends Biblical truth in context while keenly shining its purifying light on contemporary misapplications of doctrine as well as political battles. To rightly lead, we must know what we are willing to die for and that question will always lead us to one of two answers: self or Truth. I value Poythress' fine intelligence almost as much as his willingness to commit his life to the articulate defense of Truth. Well chosen, Jonah!
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Jonah (Admin)
9/1/2015 05:41:30 am
Thanks Mrs. Anderson! :)
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