Author: Profe

[image] Lady Justice wears a blindfold in order to avoid the aspects of race, age, and sex. Justice is blind to innate conditions unless a perpetrator aggressed against a victim because of these innate conditions. For example, it would be unjust to hire a less qualified candidate solely because the person is a young black woman, or an old white male. Thus, we reject policies promoting systemic racism such as affirmative action. 

It is unjust to incentivize women to go deeper into poverty, and produce more children, with a social welfare system which promotes sloth and a subsidized abortion industry which promotes promiscuity. 

It is unjust for a US Supreme Court to pretend a woman has a constitutional right to kill her developing baby. 

It is unjust to penalize job creators and producers by imposing a progressive tax system. Forced redistribution of wealth is unjust. E.g., universal health care, “free” college for all, and laws that penalize landlords for collecting rent due, while paying state payments to tenants who continue violating landlord-tenant agreements. Stealing is unjust.

It is unjust for Oregon to distribute grants to public charter schools based on the skin color of students, such is done by HB 2166 (July 19, 2021). In a flagrant violation of the Constitution and Civil Rights acts, Oregon institutionalizes racism rather than fair and equitable practices, thanks to Governor Brown’s Racial Justice Council. 

It is unjust for Oregon’s public charter schools to be coerced (through HB j2954, law as of June 23, 2021) to “select students through an equitable lottery selection process” defined as giving preference for certain races, sexual orientations, gender identity, ethnicity, and/or socioeconomic status. Conversely, we believe all students should have equal opportunity, and not be penalized for their genetics.

It is unjust to wrongly interpret the US constitution as providing the public freedom from religion rather than freedom of religion. E.g., removal of a display of the Ten Commandments would have been an atrocity in the minds of the founding fathers.

It is unjust for the Beaverton school district to mandate that all second grade students be taught, “Gender is something adults came up with to sort people into groups. Many people think there are only two genders, boys and girls, but this is not true. There are many ways to be a boy, a girl, both or neither.“

When these injustices are corrected, a better culture will result.

Freedom.  Americans have fought for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to bear arms, . . . freedom from being subject to government tyranny. Self Guided Education (SGEd) learns that the price of those freedoms is not free.

Freedom comes with responsibility. Responsible citizens protect the freedoms of others. America has been instrumental toward decreasing the evils of Nazism, Communism, Antisemitism, and Islamic fascism. Why? Because Colonial America was formed by fleeing the imposition of dictators who tried to impose a belief system. 

The American Revolutionary War was a religious war. Although radical sons of liberty claimed it was about taxation without representation, and other secular grievances, the common man knew it was about religious freedom. These Protestants did not want to pay to support the Anglican Church of England (a Roman Catholic version that had been devised by King Henry VIII in order to claim himself pope with the power to divorce his wife).

The 1636 founding mission statement of Harvard College reads, “Everyone shall consider as the main end of his life and studies, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life.” For the next 200 years, most colleges in America were founded by Christians. Evangelist Jonathan Edwards (famous for Sinners in the Hands an Angry God, 1741), help found and later served as president (1748-1758) of Princeton (motto: “under God she flourishes”). 

Duke University was founded in 1924 with the mission statement, “The aims of Duke University are to assert a faith in the eternal union of knowledge and religion set forth in the teachings and character of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” 

Many more examples could be given, such as philanthropist John Hopkins, who knew the positive impact of Christianity on culture. 

American freedom was fought for in order to promote biblical Christian faith. In the sermon “That he is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy to God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country. “ (Witherspoon, 1776)

Our US constitutional freedom to pursue life, liberty, and happiness derives from God. According to philosopher John Locke, God ordained governments (Rom 13:1) to protect those God given rights, not to supply or take away those rights. 

Thus, SGEd abhors government restrictions on what can and cannot be studied. Conversely, SGEd promotes the freedom to study that humans evolved from rocks, as is the doctrine of public education, but also the freedom to consider that God created them male and female. The freedom of SGEd allows a child to pretend they are a poodle one day, a male monkey another day, or an androgynous flamingo, in a continuum of gender fluidity. However, such freedom should not impose on others by force of rule, to reinforce such delusions through validating pronouns, or other draconian measures to control speech and thought.

The historic heart of this passion for Freedom comes from Jesus Christ.  “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

The freedom of Self Guided Education (SGEd) is not part of the unschooling movement, which is driven by reactive opposition to formal schooling. True freedom is not controlled by reactions of disgust, fear, or hate. Paradoxically, true freedom grows from love of being a slave to righteousness (Romans 6:19)

The freedom of SGEd is not part of the “child centered education” movement, which preaches a false doctrine of the innate goodness of children and the utmost importance of self-esteem. This results in schools that believe students are the best guides of for their future, e.g., https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/no-textbooks-no-grade-levels-optional-homework-students-thrive-self-guided-education/530-99198ee8-33ef-4497-8546-c809bae2c643 . Paradoxically, true freedom comes from acknowledging that the individual “heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). 

Pursuing knowledge for the sake of knowledge, does not lead to freedom. In fact, it can lead to confusion (Genesis 11), foolishness (Romans 1:22), and destruction (as the German Nazis were among the most educated peoples in Europe). While freedom for SGEd is widely promoted (https://blog.taxact.com/the-importance-of-self-education/) in the quest of being a life long learner, learning alone is futility. “Ever learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim 3:7).

It is true that, “knowledge is power”. And if, “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, then increasing knowledge could increase corruption. Certainly, knowledge can be acquired unethically, and put to corrupt use, such as the USSR KGB political purges that killed up to 60 million, China’s cultural revolution that killed up to 20 million, and experiments done by Nazi medical doctors. SGEd cannot be driven by an unfettered quest for knowledge.

SGEd is free from the dictates of public education dogmas. The religion of secular humanism holds up Darwin and Dewey as priests to impressionable children, and claims to be child centered, yet supports killing of over 50 million babies aborted since Roe vs Wade. The counselors claim they allow the pregnant teen be “Self Guided” in making a decision without informing parents. Growing up under such dogmas and political agendas is not SGEd.

“the Helper, the Holy Spirit, who the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” (John 14:26)

Self Guided Education believes in the freedom to pursue Truth. Although ultimate Truth can merely be glimpsed, as if through a dirty window (1 Cor. 13) this absolute Truth stands in opposition to post modern relativism and situational ethics. SGEd seeks to know absolute Truth, and has the freedom to try and test all claims of truth.

One such claim, was made by Jesus who proclaimed, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me” (John 14:6). This truth claim, was restated by his disciple Peter, “. . . there is salvation in no one else. There is no name given among men whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom” (Proverbs )