For “No Quarter November,” Pastor Douglas Wilson rebooted one of his “spicier” takes: the argument that Christians shouldn’t send their children to public schools. That led to a lively debate on social media about America’s educational system, indoctrination, legalism, and more.
Every November, Wilson presents “no holds barred” statements to “a rebellious culture.” Last week, the controversial Idaho pastor and author recorded to video a 2018 blog that “got me visited by a couple of field agents with the FBI.”
Wilson then posted excerpts from the video, titled “Burn All the Schools,” to X. Throughout his arguments, he repeats the anti-public-school phrase, “Get them out now.”
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“Having Christian children in the government school system is what theologians of another era would have called sinnity-sin-sin,” argued Pastor Douglas Wilson. Highlighting the “decadence” of public schools, he said, “Things that pass today without comment would have caused riots 40 years ago, and that which would cause riots today is what you are prepping your great-grandchildren to eventually put up with, provided they learn your evasions.”
After quoting Ezekiel 33:7-9, about God’s watchman and warnings, Wilson asked, “How many pastors have watched how many covenant children turned over to the godless so that the godless might oversee their growth and formation and have said nothing?” Pastors must give an account, he added, which involves counting the “casualty rate” of public schools.
Wilson also decried the “great compromise” that Christians—especially evangelicals—make when they justify sending kids into “the maw of this government school system.” These parents “have figured out creative ways of disobeying” God’s instruction “to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord,” according to the pastor. “What some people call having their children be salt and light, I call conscripting covenant children into becoming child soldiers.”
He also decried public schools as being “controlled by the fatherless, staffed by the fatherless with curriculum written by the fatherless, and attended by evangelical children who are functionally fatherless.”
For “No Quarter November,” Pastor Douglas Wilson rebooted one of his “spicier” takes: the argument that Christians shouldn’t send their children to public schools.Click to PostFor Wilson, the topic is “not really…debatable.” He urged parents to “crash the system,” saying, “If there ever were to be a true reformation among us, Christians leaving the public school system would form a refugee column that would make the Mississippi River look like a solitary tear running down Horace Mann’s cheek.”
