Dear visionaries,
My apologies for misspelling Ritalin. Kind of negates the impact of the occasional Latin. Ya think?
In response to Samuel, I am willing to make a deal. I will start calling them public schools in this forum, schools belonging to us, the people, if you all will agree that we, the people, have the right and authority to close them down if we the people decide to do this in a law-abiding fashion. Deal?
And the verse you cite is the reason we don’t have our kids in the government schools, but at the same time we do pay our taxes. Caesar has his image on our money, so it is lawful for us to pay taxes to him, even if he is being unjust. After all, it takes a pillage! But our children have God’s image on them — and we render to God what is God’s.
My thanks to Tom for bringing up Karl’s earlier post again. And the answer is that over the years, in the government schools, in the submarine service, and in Moscow over the many years I have lived here, I have had many acquaintances, friends and neighbors who do not share my peculiar views, with whom I have gotten along famously. But I do admit that I do not have very many friends in the ultra-leftist sectarian fringe. I seem a little extreme to them, and it makes conversation difficult.
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but I don’t feel at liberty to publish what others have written. But I have been editing these posts (lightly) with intelligibility in mind.