California is playing out its bankruptcy like an overexposed movie star trying hard after the plastic surgery has faded. But while the fashionable bankruptcies around the state borrow sparkle from the tinsel, they also give a great opportunity for a return to virtue, as splurging has proved a poor way to govern.
People forget that God is not just about virtue and decency, He is also about good results when His precepts are followed. But as we are all aware, public schools in California are so furiously anti-God they prosecute kids for meeting in Bible clubs after school. So, for all that anger against students, what has California’s output been? Is hating God outcome-based?
In 2009, California’s government-controlled schools spent $11,626 on average, per student, per year, on K-12 education. That’s not to mention having some districts spending as much as $15,000 or even $20,000 per year. This Las Vegas madness purchased something, but to tell just what, it’s instructive to look at the SAT scores of college-bound seniors. There, the objective measure of a test at the culminating year of all K-12 education presents a comparison that is well worth saving money and saving the culture over. California’s numbers:
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The categories and terms belong to the College Board, a secular organization. If we suppose that the College Board reports in an objective fashion, and there is no reason to doubt it, we have here the mockery of all those consumed hacks who rant that religious people, and religious instruction, are backward, incapable, etc. “Backward” and “incapable” have been measured, I’m afraid, and those labels are most accurately applied to secular schools, not religious ones.
When it comes to math, God is still God.
Is the rhetoric of every Carl Sagan follower and NPR listener then just a psychological crutch, a mask? Surely they know religious students are smarter than secular ones. Are secularists perhaps embarrassed that religious institutions absolutely destroy, and put the lie to, utopian secularist dreams, year after year, even in California? Because, after all, this smack down isn’t just the story in 2009. It’s the same year after year.
Which really leads one to wonder where all these conceited, evangelical-secularists get off, cramming their religion down everyones’ throat. After all, if they were better performing, maybe we’d listen. But secularism doesn’t work, if reading, writing and arithmetic are the measures. Yet the pontifical academy of superior seculars who know better never quit spouting that religion is anti-science … despite the fact that science says secularism stinks at science.
In the 2008 school year, the average cost for a K-12 Catholic education was $9,066 and only $7,073 for all other religious private schools. If it were news that religious schools outperform public schools in test scores, and do so for far less money, we could quibble about details. But this story is so repeated it has become hackneyed.
If we suppose next year’s public California would spend $11,000 per student and next year’s private (religious!) California would spend $8,000, how do you propose the California Legislature could save $3,000 per student while raising SAT scores? For all the secular-humanist readership, this is a word problem, and while you can use rhetoric to stall for time, you cannot get partial credit by screaming that it is me who is anti-science.
Can anyone doubt that the California secular schools are without-God? Proposing the slightest mention of our Creator brings legions of lawyers to search every lunchbox for contraband Bibles. Can anyone doubt the religious schools are, you know, pro-God? And can anyone refute the data that with-God whupps without-God, every year, all year, even in California? Now, if the data tell us that but we still have anti-religious nuts like Richard Dawkins screaming that believers have “mind viruses,” then just who is truly anti-science? Science no longer applies if religious education tops the data? Perhaps Dawkins means that religion is a beneficial virus that miraculously increases intelligence and economic efficiency.
Liberal atheists, rabid secularists and the governor of California have some things in common. They don’t notice the facts about religion when faith in God is placed to an objective test. In their selective devotion to secularism, they ignore the solution to society’s problems in order to wallow in their comfortable (and incorrect) beliefs. Happy to be known as secularism’s prophet, Dawkins is famous for saying, “Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
The College Board presents a lack of evidence for secularism’s supremacy.
The data say Californians should send their kids to God-fearing schools.
Andrew Longman is a Christian and an applied scientist.
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