Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Below is a quote from a person who left a comment on my blog concerning R.J. Rushdoony and totalitarian eduction:
To which I responded:
If it is true, as RJR affirms that, “Common to all forms of totalitarianism is a belief in the state control of education,” then this would put the United States outside his definition of “totalitarian.” For, in the U.S.A. we have freedom to educate our children and are not bound by the all “controling” hand of the state.
I suspect though, by totalitarian, he has in mind the forced racial integration of the 1960’s. Who knows? In the end, he probably blames the Jews.
If only we could just get back to that good ole theocracy of our founding Deistic fathers, then everything would be honky-dory.
To which I responded:
“In the end, he probably blames the Jews”
That is a ridiculous comment; repent of that slander of another Christian. Moreover, Rushdoony never said that everything in the Revolutionary era was “hunky-dory”, and forced racial integration is not Biblical.
Also, while some people in America presently have freedom to home-school, the state could remove this if it so desired, so ULTIMATELY it has the final control over education.