Sending Your Child to Public School: Weep not for me {Jesus} but for yourself and your children.

If you knew that sending your children to public school was almost exactly the same as crucifying Jesus again, would you do it?

Now before you dismiss this question as ridiculous, please allow me to play the role of Pontius Pilate and bring a few key common Christian beliefs to your attention to show it's possible. After I do that, I'll tell you something I know you've never heard before. I will give you the proverbial missing link that will link the crucifixion of Jesus to public school so closely that hopefully you will realize that they are different in form only. The substance is almost exactly the same and the stakes are almost exactly the same and those stakes are very high for you and your children .

First of all, don't think you're off the hook just because we all know Jesus was crucified 2,000 years ago. Jesus said to St. Paul on the famous road to Damascus, "Saul, Saul why do you persecute me?" That sure sounds like Christ is alive today, among us everywhere and can be persecuted. Another biblical fact to consider is never in the history of the world has someone crucified Jesus and really known what they were doing (Forgive them Father for they know not what they are doing.) The fact that you may be clueless right now as to what I'm talking about is to be expected if you are crucifying Jesus again. Finally, the stakes for not seeing that you are crucifying Jesus when you are could be very, very high. When Jesus was scourged and carrying his cross didn't he say, Weep not for me but for yourselves and your children? That sounds like pretty high stakes.

None of these facts that I've just brought to your attention are news to most Christians. Of course, nobody thinks about them the way I've presented them because it's safe to say most Christians have no idea that almost nothing has changed in 2,000 years and they're still standing in that crowd before Jesus and Pilate and being asked to decide the fate of Jesus.

Nobody has any clue, but this cluelessness is the key clue to seeing the on going crucifixion of Jesus. This cluelessness is what links Jesus's crucifixion of 2,000 years ago to the public schools of today and makes them almost identical They may not be identical in form, but they are in substance. (If they were identical in form, you would probably recognize the crucifixion of Jesus and you wouldn't be clueless. After all, you have the advantage of knowing the original story and how it turns out.)

You simply cannot have a crucifixion of Jesus or public school without cluelessness. To understand why, you must first understand that you cannot have a crucifixion of Jesus or public school without the use of violence to control communication and when you use violence to control communication you have no way of knowing what you are doing unless you have the wisdom of God. Without the use of violence for the sake of controlling communication there is no crucifixion of Jesus for what he preached and there is no public school. Sure public schools don't rely on wood and nails for their use of violence to control communication. In a world where the forms of violence are almost infinite, where complexities designed to hide the role of violence are only limited by the genius of mankind, it should be no surprise that the modern crucifixion of Jesus cannot be recognized simply by looking at the form of public schools instead of substance. Public schools are a child of government. As such, they simply cannot exist without the use of violence. Public schools are an attempt by government to use violence to control communication just like Christ's crucifixion was.

Once you have communication controlled by violence in the mix, you have cluelessness. There's no other way. When you use, support or trust the use of violence to control communication, YOU HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE DOING. Certainly Christ is capable of saying something that is over your head, unbelievable, condemned by authorities and scary. Even if what is said isn't over your head, unless you can predict the future, you don't know for sure where the Word is going. You're clueless. What's even sadder is once you distort or kill the Word, how in this life are you ever going to know the damage that you've done?

Jesus is out there everywhere. When you support the use of violence to control communication by sending your kid to public school and trusting one of the most extreme forms of violent controlled communication in our society, how do you know this violence is not distorting or silencing what Jesus wants to say today? Considering how prevalent Jesus is in the world today, I would say the odds are not in your favor.