You thought homeschooling was great. You thought that looking at everything from a biblical perspective was right. You thought Christian education was the way to go. You thought American government was on a slide from Biblical values.

Think again.

According to Pastor Don Wilky, that’s all way out.

In an article published at EthicsDaily.com on April 27th, Mr. Wilky sets out to answer the question “What’s being taught in Christian Schools?” Unfortunately he fails from the first sentence. In fact, he fails all the way through. In fact he doesn’t answer the question at all. But what he does do is even worse.

‘Prejudice by association’ is an infamous trick, but it’s a dumb one. I thought at first that Wilky had a bad experience with homeschoolers. After reading some of his other works I realized there was an even deeper problem. In an exclusive interview with Pastor Wilky, Oneway Purpose asked if he would have a problem with homeschooling if the material were satisfactory. He replied, “I am not against homeschooling and it is a good thing for many students since a secular society is snuffing out many Christians in public.”

But he didn’t take the time to say that while he tried to slam us all into the nail-box of extremism. The goal of his article wasn’t to promote homeschooling. The goal of his article wasn’t to tell us what’s being taught in Christian schools. The goal was to prejudice his readers against homeschooling.

From the start, you get a weird feeling about it. The first two paragraphs are made to sound antagonistic, but you don’t get the point. He starts off talking about a lady he met on a bus who was reading a book on the Christian version of math. He says, “I found the idea rather strange that there was a definite biblical view distinctly different from the secular view of math.” Strange or no strange, I’d think that a pastor would be greatly interested in that.

The next paragraph is just as dumb. It starts, “The creationism issue has rapidly gained momentum in the nation, in contrast to evolution taught in biology class.” I’m thinking, “Amen, amen, and amen, it’s about time.” He twists around and says, “...literature promoted in home-school and Christian-academy circles also has a different slant to social studies—some quite alarming.” I’m starting to notice a trend of state-then-prejudice. What’s coming is worse.

“Early Religious Right leader Billy Hargis, like his John Birch Society friends, believes that Joe McCarthy was a great American hero vindicated by secret Soviet documents. ... I have run into some Southern Baptist fundamentalist leaders who charge that Martin Luther King was a fraud.”

Now this is getting into the dirty stuff big time. I don’t know or care about Billy Hargis, John Birch Society, or Joe McCarthy. In fact Wilky, don’t be surprised if most homeschoolers don’t. But he’s not writing to us, he’d like to make everybody think that homeschoolers are extremists. And by the way, meeting some fundamentalist pastors with way-out views doesn’t have anything to do with homeschoolers or homeschooling.

And apparently, according to Wilky, “Such points of reference tend to give a decided slant to text books produced to please the crowd’s opinions.” Interesting! This spikes us into wondering what textbooks these are he’s talking about. We’re tuned, but he doesn’t tell us, instead he throws around a couple names such as “Abeka” or “Bob Jones” in the next paragraphs, leaving us to wonder the point of reference. Most readers aren’t being critical so they apply the first to the second. His ploy has worked, and neither Abeka or Bob Jones has anything to do with the fundamentalist he met.

What’s worse is next he starts griping about “Accelerated Christian Education”. He picked the wrong thing this time. That’s my school. I remember all his quotes. He says, “Baptist Sunday school teacher Jimmy Carter is described as someone who “claimed to be a believer.” The science book says there is only a choice between evolution and God.” Yuppers, I remember that well. Apparently Wilky thinks being a Sunday school teacher makes you a Christian. Apparently he thinks you can still believe in the Supreme Creator after discharging his creative power. He’s entitled to his opinions—I’ll crush them in Part II.

Now he culminates his whole point with, “Such slanted viewpoints are not the sort of things one would find in public schools.” And I’m giving a resounding “D’oh”. Of course not. That’s assuming that a scriptural view is slanted instead of straight and that a secular, humanist view is straight and not slanted. We’ll see how that stands up in Part II.

This is getting worse, but there’s more coming. Vision Forum is his worst enemy it appears, and of course, when you’re an “Extreme Left” Christian. So let’s attack them. We should all be prepared now to see through his technique.

“The list grows even more scary,” says Wilky, “Vision Forum publishes a catalogue for the crowd with a young man holding a sword in his hand under the publication’s title “A Line in the Sand.” Inside … are such gems as a book by Nancy Campbell telling young Christian women they must be fruitful and multiply as often as possible … to accomplish the Dominion theme of the author.”

It’s totally true, except the theme is not dominion. I wrote about this multiplying thing before here. I agree with Nancy, I have 5 siblings, I’ve got a small family. Big families are cool, you need to have a totally different worldview to have them though. Nancy has been contacted to answer a few questions, coming up in Part II.

He goes on to complain about southern slanted books, and reconstructionist authors, and claims that Vision Forum associates itself with authors who advocate slavery is a modern grand biblical idea. I’m contacting Vision Forum this morning to answer that. Check back for the answer in Part II.

“Other works advocate the idea that the nation is officially a Christian nation. Several Reconstructionist authors are promoted with the ideas expressed in the catalogue that young boys must be taught to grow up to take dominion of the state. Separation of church and state is a non-biblical idea, much like the view that democracy is for cowards.”

That paragraph was so prejudiced it made me laugh. If that made you laugh, keep reading.

“Military themes are common in the titles of books. Young boys are encouraged to defend the honor of their sisters. Women are taught that they are to submit unto their husband’s wishes…”

That made me frown. What on earth is he trying to do here? During our email interview he admitted that he doesn’t have any problems with boys defending their sister’s honor or wives submitting to their husbands. “Although,” he says, “The submissive woman thing can get complicated in some situations.” I appreciate that Wilky doesn’t see those things as bad, but it appears he still thinks they’re far out.”

“I have often heard people complain about what is being taught in public schools. To be honest, I haven’t yet heard of many items as far out as these examples.”

Anybody want to help me remedy that?