Christianity has been of the greatest importance to the USA
since the time when the first settlers stepped on the Plymouth Rock. Ever since
the USA has upheld the Christian values teaching them as mandatory in schools and
even conducting witch hunts. At present the church is separated from the State
to assure the normal functioning of other religions, while being no longer
mandatory, but rather optional for studying. In the following essay I am going
to speak about the Christian education as always being the option for the
citizens of the USA and to explain the importance of Christian education and
the role it plays in our society.
Christianity has constantly played a great role in human
education in Europe as well as in the USA. The first schools in both Europe
were Catholic that taught high moral standards and compliance with the God's
rules. After the Protestant reformation, the role of Catholicism was
drastically reduced. When the first settlers arrived to the USA, the religion
they were teaching in schools was Protestantism. Christianity educated people
in schools while placing certain limits on the human development. Unlike Catholic
and Orthodox churches that highly believed in God's dominance and written
scrutiny and therefore rejected various sciences that are anti-religious
(genetic engineering, nuclear sciences, etc.), protestant churches considered
good deeds and helpful behavior to be of the ultimate importance to God.
Protestant churches believed that God created any sciences possible; therefore
it was a human duty to study as much as possible as well as proclaiming God and
expressing God in all human achievements.
Christianity if taught at schools leaves a great stigma on
the students. The statistics say that students who study Christianity and
Christian values at school are much less likely to engage in illegal activities
such as underage drinking, promiscuous sex, and carrying arms. In US schools
from all students who engage in the illegal activities only 12% of them are
students studying Christianity or are engaged in Christian schools.
On a more personal level I believe that Christian education
is of great importance to the whole country. Students in their teens are only
forming their future character and certainly need various people to take
example from. It is no wonder that in poor schools and in what we call bad
neighborhoods, the crime rates are much higher--children that grow up in
violent environment are in my opinion are going to be violent. It is a common
fact that boys that grew up in families where fathers beat up their wives are
more likely to also beat up their future spouses like their fathers. All these
examples indeed show us the importance of education in the early years of human
life and make us understand that education should be of great value to the
society. Christianity on the other hand discourages arms, sex before marriage,
as well as drinking. When exposed to Christian morals, students are more likely
to develop personal attitude that would allow them to resist the peer pressure,
engage in profound studying and strong desire for excellence. This shows the
important role of domestic security that the Christian education provides for
the society that promulgates Christianity in schools.
At the same time, Christianity being only optional provides
the necessary freedoms to students of other religions, or even atheists who do
not want to be influenced by the religious thought. The freedom or choice,
makes the Christian teachers compete for the students and therefore not to
abuse the Christian moral as it happens in areas of the world where
Christianity is dominant (e.g. in Serbia and Horvatia Christianity prompted the
people to eradicate the Muslims from the Christian land).
In conclusion I would like to say that the Christian
educational option in fact provides a wonderful complementary material to
students in the USA. The statistics that show reduction in violence, loose
behavior or engagement in illegal activities corroborate the practical
importance of Christian education, while the separation of church and state
assures that no single religious leader can take control of the political life
in the USA. The role of being the crime reducer that the Christian education
represents the true need of such education in the society.
By T.J
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Revelation 12:11
And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by
their testimony.
And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid
to die
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