Religious Nature of Education or Can Education Be Neutral? (Remastered)

Rushdoony argues that education can never be neutral because creation itself is not neutral: everything is made by God, given purpose and boundaries, so there are no “brute facts” detached from meaning. The myth of neutrality, he says, is really the logic of the Fall (Gen. 3:5)—man claiming autonomy (self-law) over against theonomy (God’s law)—and it shows up in modern humanistic, state-run schooling through pragmatism, “anything goes” relativism, and child-centered progressivism that resists fixed truth (even down to dates, grammar, and moral standards). By excluding God from the classroom, education doesn’t become objective; it becomes a rival religion that trains students to act as little gods and judges, producing egoism and cultural decay. Christian education, by contrast, begins with “the fear of the Lord” as the foundation of knowledge and wisdom (Ps. 111:10; Prov. 1:7) and aims at loving God and neighbor (Deut. 10; Matt. 22), insisting that every curriculum is an act of faith—and that removing Christ is not neutrality but warfare, because humanistic education becomes an institutional love of death, while Christ-centered education is the love of life (Prov. 8:35–36; John 14:6). #ChristianEducation #NoNeutrality #BiblicalWorldview #Theonomy #Autonomy #Genesis3 #FaithAndLearning #Worldview #CultureWar #ProgressiveEducation #Humanism #ScriptureFirst #FearOfTheLord #Rushdoony #KingdomLiving