Judgemental much?Ezra wrote:No thanks I want to go to the celestial kingdom. You may think that it's ok to knowingly send your children to go receive forced priestcraft. But I know there will be consequences for that decision. So no my kids won't attend.
If church run schools are critical to salvation and, as you judged, any parent who doesn't home school or send their kids to a church run school will not qualify for the Celestial Kingdom, then where are the church run schools today? Do they have a single private secondary school run by the church in Utah? Is everybody who goes to a university other than one of the BYU campuses destined for hell? Why does the church encourage people to go to hell by attending other schools, even going to what I assume you would call the wicked extreme of setting up institutes of religion at many universities? And why would the church offer a seminary program for students at secular high schools if those students are condemned because they attend those schools?Jack Monette wrote a book on the history of education and the lds church is a great read. It's called revealed educational principles.
You should understand Brigham young was promised by god that if we as a people followed the same patterns as the people of Enoch followed that we would be like them. Close to exaltation.
He set up church run schools to fulfill that. The saints rejected that for the "education of the world" public schooling.
Howard W Hunter was raised in Boise. I see no record of a church run secondary school in that city so I guess he doesn't deserve to be a general authority. President Monson went to West High School. Is it time to have him excommunicated? Elder Hales was born and raised in New York City, where the church has never had its own school Elder Holland went to Dixie High in St. George. Elder Bednar grew up in the Bay Area and his father wasn't even a church member! Elder Cook went to Logan High. Elder Christofferson went to a high school in New Jersey. Was there a church run school in Pocatello for Elder Anderson? Elder Rasband went to Olympus High, and neither President Eyring or President Uchtdorf were able to attend a church run high school.
It must be so hard for you to be in a church where so few of the leaders were home schooled or sent to a school that wasn't run by men who do not believe the gospel and are never going to the celestial kingdom!
GOOD! What Elder Packer described is exactly what should be taught in school! If you were running a private school I'm sure you would be really popular as you taught all the students who weren't LDS that they were going to hell.“Moral values are being neglected and prayer expelled from public schools on the pretext that moral teaching belongs to religion. At the same time, atheism, the secular religion, is admitted to class, and our youngsters are proselyted to a conduct without morality... we are caught in a current so strong that unless we correct our course, civilization as we know it will surely be wrecked to pieces...The distance between the church and a world set on a course which we cannot follow will steadily increase.”
--Boyd K. Packer, (General Conference, April 1994)
And I'm choosing not to follow the direction of the world.
I hope more choose to as well.
The United States was founded by Christians, but not as a Christian country. Utah was founded by Mormons, but not as a Mormon state. The principle of freedom of religion, as enshrined in the 11th Article of Faith, dictates that we don't force our religion on others. Schools do not exist to teach morality. They exist to teach secular knowledge. Parents and churches exist to treat morality. Problems in the world aren't being caused or aggravated because of public schooling; they are being aggravated because parents are abdicating their responsibility to teach morality, and are not taking their kids to a church where they can learn morality, so the lessons are never taught.
Good luck with your kids. I worry that they will grow up so sheltered that they will have a really hard time and will fall when they discover just how sheltered they have been. I have seen it happen, but if you refuse to teach anything worldly in your home schooling you might not have to worry. When they know nothing about the antichrist teaching of science, and since algebra doesn't exist anywhere in scripture, they will have such bad SAT or ACT scores that they won't be going to a university.