“After all, since it goes so completely against His teachings on the subject, it can only be described as anti-Christ. I do believe Jesus said in Matthew 6.6 to pray behind closed doors in private and not make a show of things. This politically motivated poem is devised to undermine His teachings by encouraging prayer as a public spectacle to be mouthed for the ears of men rather than a private conversation with God.”
Why don’t you look up what the Great Commission is. The Bible teaches that all Christians have a duty to be salt and light to the surrounding culture (Mt. 5:13-16) and that Christians should witness to their neighbors.
So I am not to mention that I am a Christian and I should not spread the gospel to those who don’t know Christ?
This is just a prayer to show how bad things have gotten. How society has changed. I have no clue who wrote it.
“This poem was obviously penned by a modern day pharisee, and I would think it incumbent on any Christian to learn how to recognize when something supports His teachings and when it doesn't. He warned His followers to beware wolves in sheep's clothing.’
I think it was written by someone who sees realistically what a god-less society we live in and how people DO NOT STAND UP FOR HIM. How people think they can live without God. IMO there is nothing in that poem that is not true. Curious what you find so wrong in that poem" Give examples.
Cephus said, “What good does it do to teach kinds the core subjects and end up having a good percentage of them become criminals, welfare recipients and worse? There was a time when morality was taught in the home, when parents cared about what their kids did and took the responsibility for disciplining them. Those days are, unfortunately, gone and someone has to do it for the good of society. Do you have any ideas who should do it if not the schools?”
Kids aren’t just learning the core subjects. And a good majority of them are becoming felons and welfare recipients and pregnant and infected with STD‘s at alarming rates. So this new humanistic system aint workin is it?
Yes, morality was taught at home and it was then enforced at school. Today it isn’t. Schools don’t get into morality. Morality was tossed out of the dictionary years ago. They don’t teach that there is a right and a wrong. Everything is right if it feels good. All in the eyes of the beholder.
“Personally, I'd rather go back to having the parents be responsible but I have no idea how to force them to do so. Do you?”
Parents should be responsible and the school should only teach core subjects. But today schools feel the need to get into everything, especially sensitivity training and lifestyle choices. All lifestyle choices are right. And if you do teach your child at home and send them to public schools good luck. Because most public school undermine many of the moral things that parents do teach at home.
See what happens when you take god out of everything.
There are many teachers who do care and God love em, because schools are tough. And I know in many school systems teachers hands are tied and they are forced to teach the crap that the NEA has on their agendas. Why would anyone want to go into teaching today? Heck with the way minimum wage has been going up a worker at McDonalds will make as much as a teacher.
Many, not all parents are to busy today to care. Both parents now work and when they don’t work they play sometimes to hard and forget little Johnny at home.
The entire family unit is breaking down and parents responsibilities have shifted to the schools. And look what our schools have turned into.