Your Christian School is at War! Now, Get to Work! & Listener Comments and Reactions

"Uri is a witch-hunter." And why Machen would not have liked me.

Aaron Renn refers to this age as the negative world. The negative world is a world where a faithful Christian, Classical school, is viewed as the enemy. Every act of charity, table manners, young men opening the doors for ladies, and every Christian etiquette and virtue are treated as an insult to the gods of this age. It’s crucial that you understand that if you teach according to God’s revelation, you are on the blacklist of many pagan groups today. They may not know you or where you are located, but self-consciously, Trinitarian Christian teachers are the worst of the worst in the negative world. Why? Because you are attempting to indoctrinate children in the art of writing, in the gift of imagination, in the duty of articulating truth, and that makes you a danger to the world, the flesh, and the devil—the unholy trinity of paganism.

As you begin this school year, it’s significant for you to see that your institution is at war with unbelief. The Psalmist says that God trains our hands for war and fingers for battle. Whether the finger that gently plucks the harp or the hands that write another bona libre, God is preparing these children for warfare.

If God, our great teacher, trains our hands for war and fingers for battle, then we imitate God by producing little armies of hands and fingers ready to make war against the gods of this age. It’s our didactic duty and your philosophical pursuit. This is your sacred mission this year!

The Sacred Mission

It was the sacred mission of our forefathers in the Garden of Eden. Adam had a duty to preserve the culture of Eden. He was to train his hands for war and fingers for battle. This was how you kept unbelief out of Eden’s classroom. Adam was to protect the sacred. This would become a pattern for God’s people throughout history. Later, the Hebrew people were to preserve the sacred in the desert. The priests preserved the sacred in the sacrificial system. In the Gospels, Jesus fought against the Devil and the false teachers for the sake of the sacred. The false teachers did not want to train God’s people to war against evil. So, Jesus scolds them. Paul and the Apostles sought to preserve the sacred against the zealots. Then, Augustine fought against the heretics to preserve the sacred. Then Luther fought against the dominant church of the day to preserve the sacred. Then, Bonhoeffer fought against the Nazi regime to preserve the sacred. Then, R.J. Rushdoony traveled across the United States in the 1970s to tell the world that public schools were destroying our children. He was preserving the sacred.