Addressing Politically Correct Righteousness in Education


By Joe Renfro, Ed.D. - Posted at The Christian Observer

In Isaiah 42:6 it is recorded that God gave the message to Israel that “I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.” Then in Isaiah 54:13 it gives the directive to the Israelites, “And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.” Teaching political correctness can never bring real peace, but Christ can and will.

America, which once highly revered these Judeo-Christian principles has now shifted and is shifting more and more from the teaching about God’s righteousness to a new form of righteousness centered on rights which focuses on so-called rights rather than righteousness in our relationship with God, with others and with ourselves. The lesson plan for it all has become political correctness, as this radicalization is replacing true education in our American schools. Major problems are brewing!

Formal education in our land begins in pre-school and goes on to post-graduate work in colleges, and emphasis on political correctness is increasingly becoming a part of all of this. But in particular at this time we are observing educational chaos permeating on many of our college campuses, which is a much more evident example of how our educational structure has developed. The trinity of the progressive thinking evidenced in our colleges and universities is often the fight against what they esteem to be racism and sexism—but all of this, it can be argued can be nothing more than attacking mere stereotypes. Minority groups can be just a guilty of racism and sexism or various types of phobia as majority groups.

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