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Quote by: Right of Center Well that's an interesting concept I suppose. Do you really believe Christians frown on education? That assertion is false. One looks at students that attend Catholic private school that crush public school students on every test. That doesn't sound like Christians are against education. Christians are opposed to biased education that disintegrates their positions. Two examples are sex education and evolution. Christians and many other groups say that evolution is just a theory and that teaching it as truth in science class with no other alternative is wrong. Christians oppose government sanctioned sex education because they believe that it is a private personal matter that should be handled within one's home. They also oppose government teaching sex education and avoiding to promote abstinence.

In the past Christians have been much more against education than they are today. The bible says many things, and unfortunately I do not remember the exact quotes warning against too much learning, but there was a time when these bible quotes were more important than they are today. While you justify today's Christian concern about what children are taught, in the past it was forbidden to teach the Greek paganism that is the foundation of democracy. Attitudes towards Aristotle and Plato have changed and then changed again. This is true for both Christians and Muslims. If all we know of life is what is so today in our own little part of the world, we will have a lot of arguements, and this gets very tiring. Here is a basic example of past thinking....

Anti-intellectualism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [edit] Religious fundamentalism Much modern American anti-intellectualism originates from the commonly held view among conservative Christians that the current form of public education subverts religious belief. The validity of this view, in fact, was well substantiated by the spread of atheism and Deism among the educated during the Enlightenment, and was deep-rooted even before that time. Hence, for instance, the New England writer and Puritan John Cotton wrote in 1642, "The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee." More recently, an anti-intellectual current is claimed by some in the works of Fundamentalist Christian cartoonist Jack Chick. In his anti-evolution tract Big Daddy? for example, he depicts the academic establishment as intolerant and elitist in their rejection of creationism. [6] Some Christians, while not considering education an inherent evil, object to what they perceived as "un-Christian" elements, especially in public schools (K-12) and colleges and universities. Focal points for fundamentalist criticism are comprehensive sex education, and evolution.