“Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.” SchoolChallengesTeachStudentsOughtIdeologyClassroomSecular Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.” WorldMindFactsFeelingsSpiritValuesModernMoralityTreatsRealmsSplitsSecularSubjectiveDualism Author:Nancy Pearcey
“The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.” DoeLossLibertyMoralPracticeTyrannyOppressionIdeologyLiberationSecularObjectivity Author:Nancy Pearcey
“In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses.” WorldIdeasSchoolChristianChurchResultsCasesStudentsCollegeBattleIntellectualEncountersExposedSecularCompetingCampusUnpreparedCollege CampusChristian Schools Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.” GrantsClassroomSecularMonopolyExclusiveWorldviewPublic Education Author:Nancy Pearcey
“The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.” NeedsDoeSaidMatterWholeRealityTodayBeliefReligiousChristianitySacredConvincedLionsPreacherSplitsSecularCagesBaptistsCagedAccommodationsPersonal BeliefsReligious TruthSpurgeon Author:Nancy Pearcey