He wanted a common faith that had nothing to do with belief in God

"I don't think God calls upon Christian parents to put our children in the schools as guinea pigs as salt and light," Mohler repled. "I'll be honest. I just don't think that at all is the biblical vision. The public schools are an innovation. They are not a fact of nature. And there's an agenda behind them. During the age of the 20th century the agenda was making American citizens. The central ideological character behind that was John Dewey, who taught most extensively at teachers college at ColumbiaUniversity. He really set the agenda for the public schools nationwide in terms of separating children from their parents, in terms of ethnicity, in language and creating a common culture. He was explicitly anti-Christian. He wanted a common faith that had nothing to do with belief in God."

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[Alice Clay]

When you've got elementary kids saying, 'I know this is what Mom and Dad say, but the teacher, who's got a college degree and she's got a master's degree, she's accredited.'

Oh come on! What elementary school kid is gonna be aware of their teacher's masters degree??

And seriously...the number one influence on kids are their parents. end of story. If the parents tell the kid over and over that evolution is bunk the kid's not gonna believe it no matter what the brilliant, college degreed science teacher says.

Not everyone can afford private school. But once again, the SBC is finding one more thing to make their people feel guilty over. No one should feel bad that their kid(s) have to go to public school because they don't make six figures like seminary presidents, professors, and megachurch pastors.

[alice venturi]

"A little honesty on all sides would be really, really helpful here," Mohler said.

Oh, the irony.

[Dwight Welch]

Except for in the book A Common Faith, Dewey talks about God, as in a number of his books (in the positive sense).

[Tenoch]

This Mohler guy is actually a seminarian president? I wonder why is he allowed speak so ignorantly and arrogantly about things he simply doesn't understand?

[Psyche]

Is it my imagination or is Mohler getting more and more bizarre?

[Alice Clay]

Tenoch, the thing is...Mohler isn't ignorant at all. He's quite brilliant, has a quirky sense of humor, is personable, and is well-read. But I believe (and what makes me angry is) that he takes what he reads and uses scare tatics and worse case scenarios to convince Christians to believe certain things. Is he on a power trip? For certain.

He (along with others in the SBC) are getting more & more rigid in their orthodoxy.