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By: The Revolution Begins With Vegetables « THE CHARISMANGLICAN

The Revolution Begins With Vegetables « THE CHARISMANGLICAN — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:59:09 +0000

[...] Nearly one year ago I quit being a mortgage loan hotshot to work at home. I joined my wife in homeschooling our kids and as an assistant photographer. It’s not been a fair trade: my life is 1000 times better [...]

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:20:38 +0000

You just made a wonderful, indirect case for classical Christian education (which can be done in homeschool and traditional school settings, by the way).

By: Kurt Willems

Kurt Willems — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:07:32 +0000

Interesting perspective on homeschooling. typically it is for the reason of being very conservative so a family homeschools. You however have a commitment to subverting the empire… an admirable one at that. thanks!

By: Shawn Wamsley

Shawn Wamsley — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:49:49 +0000

My kids are in public school because I enjoy seeing how much higher my kids “dot” is on the standardized testing results. ;-)

By: mathias

mathias — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:20:32 +0000

i really need to do a better job of proof reading. last paragraph, third sentence should read, “As Christians we weren’t guaranteed…”
sorry, there’s likely more errors.

By: mathias

mathias — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:16:41 +0000

I think I understand where everyone is coming from. When I was younger I strongly criticized this country and its notion of “freedom” for many of the same reasons you all have pointed out. In many ways I still agree with those points. I am under no illusion that this country is perfect. And I believe we should all be Christians first, with everything else falling in after. But, As I have gotten older I have changed my view to some degree (not about being Christians first). While harder times and less ‘freedoms’ may help purge fair weather Christians I have been unwilling to move to China, and in fact I find myself enjoying what we have here quite a bit. And while I do not agree with everything in public schools or in our government, or in a way many citizens choose to ‘abuse’ the ‘freedoms’ we have, I would not rather live in Afghanistan or Indonesia. And while many of the soldiers or those who have died in service to this country may not have been moral in any way, and while they were likely trying to kill someone and not wanting to die themselves were sacrificing something, if nothing else, the comforts I have enjoyed while living in this country and being one of its citizens. These men have been without the very comforts and some of the ‘freedoms’ all other citizens enjoy, at one time or another. I do appreciate that there are those who are willing to do that. And I do have some of these luxuries that I enjoy in part because of people like that.
Again God is really the one to thank for the good things we have. But if I were starving and had been praying to find some food for my family, and a man happened by and left us with bread, or whatever. I would certainly thank the man and be very appreciative for him leaving the food that I needed. I would also be thankful to God who heard my prayers and provided someway for me to receive what i needed. nothing wrong with thanking the messenger, in fact it may be wrong not to. because some would misuse the bread, doesn’t mean the bread was worthless or that the man who gave it wasn’t generous and merciful.
And I don’t know what you’re referring to exactly with, “far far far too often “my freedoms” end up being the securing of freedoms for those with power/money/influence while those same freedoms are not extended to others who are not in such a position.” I’m not a rich man and I don’t have any power or influence, yet I feel ‘free.’ Do you not? Everyone in this country is certainly freer than those in the countries I have already listed. I’m not sure what we should realistically expect from an earthly nation. I can’t think of any poor, unfree people in this country… and I know a few who are extremely poor.

I guess I have also been considering you have said about Christ in the Roman Empire, “If Jesus was a good citizen then why did the Roman authorities murder him?” Jesus wasn’t crucified for any laws that he broke or for any injustice he committed, but because the people that crucified him were unjust. Christ taught that we should be subject to these higher powers, whether just or unjust. As Christians we were guaranteed any earthly freedoms or justice, but those in the world are guaranteed justice and good conduct from Christians. because we were not guaranteed nay of the earthly freedoms we do all enjoy in some fashion, then that is why I am thankful for them and will not likely be moving away.
It’s certainly not a perfect country, but it has done enough ‘good’ for me, at least, to be thankful for. It has done some bad as well, but then so have I, and I hope people are still appreciative for the good I do, as well.
let’s not be too critical, when we enjoy many of the things this nation has provided us.

By: The Charismanglican

The Charismanglican — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:29:34 +0000

Tony put the quotes around ‘freedom’ because the modern concept of this just means “Step off, nephew, I can do whatever I want.” Then you came along and said ‘freedom as the world defines it’. Well, yeah…that’s what the quotes were for.

I’m pretty sure Tony wouldn’t have anything against freedom that meant human flourishing in the image of God.

And Tony, you’re right to talk about power/money/influence. One of the reasons that I can homeschool at all is because of a certain level of privilege that I inherited. I dealt with this on my facebook page that linked to this post. Of course, that’s been hijacked and is now about healthcare- public or private.

By: adhunt

adhunt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:37:09 +0000

I was purposely being provocative. Thankfully you bit right in. I should really just keep my mouth shut when I’m not actually invested in a conversation.

I’ll say this, far far far too often “my freedoms” end up being the securing of freedoms for those with power/money/influence while those same freedoms are not extended to others who are not in such a position. I’m willing to mute many of my own “freedoms” in order that it might “spread the love around.” I would do this for health care, for public education, for greening the energy system among others.

By: mathias

mathias — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:16:46 +0000

“misused”?, I meant. I’ll learn to type one day… but not today.