Homeschool News & Views
Issue 24, June 1, 2007
From Homeschool
Helpers
In association with Pass It On Ministries
Greetings. This is Dan
White with Homeschool News & Views, issue 24, for
June 1, 2007.
Some friends told of going
to see a movie named Georgia Rule. From
what they had read the movie seemed friendly enough. When they got to the theater, the theater was
packed with families with children, especially a lot of young girls, so they
thought they were going to see a family flick.
However, they had not checked the rating of the movie, which was R. So these friends were sitting in the theater,
waiting for something like My Friend Flicka to
flicker on the screen, and five minutes later they were in the middle of a
perverse sex scene onscreen.
What about all those families
in the theater and all those young kids?
That sex perversity was being seared into the minds of those young
people, such things as young people used to not even know at all.
It used to be that you had
to work to find such filth. Now you have
to work to avoid it and most people don’t do that. What most people accept is set by what most
people accept. If everybody else thinks
something’s OK, then it must be OK. So if
everybody’s watching porn, then it must be all right, especially if we don’t
call it porn.
And
Many Christians follow
that same approach. They may not accept quite
the same filth as the society as a whole, but they follow that same method of
setting behavior. People just look to
other people to determine what they should do.
They don’t do this intentionally, but that is what happens. Then as the society changes, people bring
those changes right into the churches, and the
churches then change right along with the society. That is exactly what has happened with
Christian marriages. Now that is
happening with homosexuality.
The standard for a
Christian is Christ Himself, not any other person or group of persons. One of the great problems which churches have
is that they are made up of people, and people in a church tend to look to
other people in the church as their guide in what to do. If you and I are part of a church
congregation, I tend to look at what you do to guide me, and you tend to look
at what I do to guide you. Nobody says
they do that, but in reality that’s usually what happens.
The media has filled the
society with the grossest immorality, and almost everyone drinks it in without
question. They have no absolute
standard. Most people accept what most
people accept.
Sometimes people say it is
wrong to try to avoid wrong, things like R movies and smutty TV shows.
Many people have the inoculation
theory of behavior. They think the way
to overcome evil is to be exposed to it.
They will say that Christian homeschoolers are
being too protective of their children by not putting them in the evil public schools, and that when the homeschooled
kids become adults they will go crazy and be overcome by the evil they have not
been exposed to.
The inoculation theory
does indeed work with vaccinations. If
you expose the body to a little bit of disease, usually in a dead form, the
body will create antibodies against that little bit of disease which enable it
to overcome a whole lot of disease.
Giving the body even a little bit of a disease in a vaccination has
certain risks and drawbacks, but there is ample proof that vaccinations work
against disease.
Does the inoculation
theory work that way with human spiritual behavior?
When Adam and Eve took in
a little bit of evil -- just one bite -- did that strengthen them to overcome
all other evil? Or were they overcome with
the evil they chose to consume?
You know the answer to
that.
What about
pornography? Does the inoculation theory
work with that?
Most of the time for most
people, when they go to a theater they get popcorn and porn. When people are exposed to porn, as so often
happens today, does that inoculate them from sexual sin? When they view porn, does that make them want
less sex sin or more sex sin?
Are all of those young girls watching Georgia Rule more likely or less likely
to do what they see in the movie?
Willingly being exposed to
the evil of porn does not lead people to overcome that evil, but leads them to
be overcome with that evil. Millions of
teen girls around the country will do what they saw Lindsay Lohan
do in Georgia Rule. Oh, by the way – Lohan was just arrested for doing drugs and drunk
driving. She is only 21 and her life is
already a wreck.
Basically all sex
criminals are addicted to porn. Then
they act out what they have filled their minds with. In fact, it this litigious society, it seems
to me that people who are sexually attacked could sue the sellers of the porn
that the attacker was addicted to. The
left wingers sue Smith & Wesson when someone gets shot with one of their
guns. Surely, then, a porn merchant can
get sued when one of his customers acts out the porn that the merchant sold.
It is a given that porn
helps create sex criminals. Obviously
the inoculation theory does not work with human behavior.
So some say that Christian
homeschoolers are being too protective of their
children by not putting them in the evil public schools,
and that when the homeschoolers become adults they
will go crazy and be overcome by the evil they have not been exposed to. That is exactly backwards.
Those young people who are
not immersed in the evil – the Christian homeschoolers
-- are not overcome by it, for the most part.
Those young people who are immersed – all the public schoolers
-- in the evil are overcome by it, for the most part. There will be exceptions on both sides. There will be some who have not been immersed
in the evil and yet will seek it out.
There will be some who have been immersed in the evil, yet will seek to
avoid it. However, a generation of
results shows that Christian homeschool kids tend to
stay Christians as adults. Christian
public school kids tend to become non-Christians as adults. They have been overcome by the evil in which
they have been immersed, just as with a porn addict.
You do not grow stronger
spiritually by seeking the spirit of Satan.
You grow stronger spiritually by seeking the spirit of God.
All those families who
absorb all those sex, violence, drugs and obscene language movies, TV shows and
cd’s send that to the public
schools with their kids. Perhaps the biggest use of the internet is for
pornography and sex discussions. Some of
the online teen social sites have become interactive porn centers. This is the defacto
culture of the schools.
It’s no surprise that the
public school culture produces high school seniors which, in a USA Today
survey, thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were a married couple. Half
the seniors in the study thought that
A nation that does not
know the lesson of
School girls now wear
brand named tee shirts with sayings on the front like, “Who needs brains when
you have these?” And “Anatomy
tutor.” The popular fashions emphasize
sex, sex, sex with kids, kids, kids: skirts
that don’t go down far enough, blouses that don’t come up far enough, and
suggestive writing in the most suggestive places. It was reported that even girls from ages
eight to twelve, called tweens, spent 1 ½ million
dollars in 2003 on thong underwear. Why
does a ten year old girl wear thong underwear?
If you have a ten year old little girl, is a thong wrong?
I’m trying to imagine the
face of a mother, whose little 4 foot 10 inch ten year old says, “Mother, I
want some thong underwear.” Apparently a
lot of mothers go along with the thong.
The kids pick all this
destructive sin up from the mass media, then they make
that media culture the culture of the mass schools. Since the schools have rejected God as the
basis for their knowledge, they have no basis for excluding this immorality. The schools become the spreaders of this
immorality.
Sending a child to a
public school is like sending them off to an R rated movie every day. They do not get inoculated against that
evil. They get inculcated in that evil.
What can we learn from the
false inoculation theory of behavior?
We can learn this.
A number of parents homeschool for a number of years, then send their kids into
the public schools late in high school.
They have kept them out of the public schools to give them
better values and a better education.
Then they send them into what they have avoided based on their belief in
the inoculation theory – which is, they think they have taught their kids so
well they will be able to go into a sea of evil and not be drowned in it. They think they can send their Christian
kids into the immoral public schools and not become immoral themselves.
When is that true? When is a person so spiritual that they can
be willingly immersed in evil and not be affected by it?
That is never true.
When is a person
spiritually strong enough that he can expose himself to porn and not be
affected by that?
A Christian man might tell
himself that he is spiritual enough to be exposed to pornography and not be
overcome by it. That is a fool’s
thinking. Any man who exposes himself to
porn at any time will be affected by it.
And any student who is dropped into the R rated culture of the public schools
will be affected by it. At the very
best, they will be constantly trying to fight off all the evil around them,
when with a Christian education they could spend that same time absorbing the
richness of Christ. Instead of trying to
keep from sliding downhill, they can spend their time climbing uphill. At the very worst, they’re swept right along
with the crowd.
The inoculation theory
does not work for homeschooled students who are sent
back into the R rated culture of the public schools. They will be badly affected by the R rated
culture there. In many cases, the homeschool family will be just throwing away the years they
have spent homeschooling.
Eze 9:4
(4) Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of
the city, through the midst of
Only those who sighed and
cried were marked. God’s people are not
those who go along with anything and get along with everybody. They do not tolerate evil. They cry against evil.
A spiritually wise person
never lets himself get immersed in evil.
In fact, whenever he is around evil, he battles against it, speaks out
against it, and will not participate in it.
He does not go along with it. You
cannot attend or teach in the public schools without quietly accepting their R
rated immorality. When a Christian sends
his child into the immoral public school culture, and he goes along with
everything they teach, and he quietly accepts all the immoral conduct of most
of the students, most of all that parent is teaching
his child to tolerate evil. And that is
really all the other side needs to prevail.
That immorality that your child tolerates all around him, he will
tolerate in himself.
This is Dan White with Homeschool Helpers.
God bless the Christian homeschoolers.