Public Schools are Religious Institutions Too
Envision, for a moment, a room of wide-eyed children, sitting in neat assigned rows, their formidable minds eagerly soaking in every word spoken from the front of the classroom.
Now, strip away the veneer of neutrality and replace it with what lies beneath, a pulpit, where the high priests of secularism preach their doctrines day after day.
Public education—the sacred temple of “neutral” knowledge—is not neutral at all. It is a religious institution, zealously indoctrinating children into its carefully curated faith. To deny this is not just naive, it is willfully blind.
Every belief system starts with assumptions, unprovable truths taken on faith. Christianity openly acknowledges its foundation—the inerrant word of God. The secular school system, however, operates under the pretense of objectivity, insisting they deal only in facts while surreptitiously promoting their own dogma.
The difference?
One faith is honest about its roots while the other hides its altar behind a chalkboard and a purple-haired teacher.
Think about what children are taught to believe here. Science is not taught as the pursuit of truth, but as the arbiter of it. Evolution is not a theory, but a fact beyond question. They are not asked to critically evaluate its assumptions, rather they are told to accept them without hesitation.
Naturalism—the belief that the material world is all there is—is treated as gospel truth. But let me ask you this. Is it not faith to believe that everything sprang from nothing? That life, with all its complexity, arose from blind, purposeless forces?
They will tell you this is not faith but science. Yet, does science not rest on its own unprovable assumptions? The uniformity of nature—that the laws of physics will hold tomorrow as they do today—cannot be proven. It is believed.
And the irony is that public schools claim to teach children how to think, yet they begin by indoctrinating them into a worldview where only one way of thinking is permitted. Call it what you will, but that is faith—faith in the dogma of secularism.
The school system prides itself on being free from religious influence, yet it teaches morality just the same. Tolerance, inclusion, equity—buzzwords plastered across every hallway and bulletin board. These are not neutral concepts. They are moral imperatives derived from a specific worldview and one that denies absolute truth and elevates human feelings above divine law.
Some kid who dares to challenge this inviolable creed—say, by arguing that biological sex is immutable or that marriage is between a man and a woman—will quickly discover how “tolerant” this system truly is.
And what of purpose? Religion has always sought to answer life’s most fundamental questions:
Who are we?
Why are we here?
Your kids’ schools answer these questions, too.