The Exodus Mandate Project, an organization that encourages Christian families to remove their children from “Pharaoh’s schools” (translation: government schools), was started by Colonel E. Ray Moore, Jr., a former Army chaplain. Exodus Mandate has released a unique report card, giving out grades to several so-called conservative, pro-family organizations. The grades indicate how good a job the organizations have been doing in championing the “Promised Land” (translation: Christian schools and/or home schools).

The nine organizations evaluated are Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, American Family Association, Wall Builders, Family Life, Josh McDowell Ministries, Vision America, and Coral Ridge Ministries.

Exodus Mandate selected these particular entities, most of them Religious Right powerhouses, “because they have the words ‘family,’ education, or youth in their organization name or as part of their mission.”

The criteria used in the evaluation process included categories such as “promotes K-12 Christian education and homeschooling,” “warns about the dangers of public schools,” “does not advocate lobbying, voting, or legislation as the primary means to affect cultural renewal,” and “does not support the delusion that ‘public school reform’ will resolve our spiritual and cultural crisis.”

Coral Ridge Ministries, which was led by the late Dr. D. James Kennedy, received the overall highest grade: B. Family Research Council and Family Life tied for the worst overall grades: D+. The popular Focus on the Family organization, founded by Dr. James Dobson, received an overall grade of C, while Concerned Women for America, chaired by Mrs. Beverly LaHaye, received a C-.

No grades of A were issued to any ministry or organization in any category.

Based on the mediocre scores, these groups didn’t make the education reformation cut for Moore and his fellow evaluators, which included Karl Priest, a former public school principal, and David and Kim d’Escoto, authors of The Little Book of Big Reasons to Homeschool.

Stated Moore: “I am not happy about this (giving out the poor grades) as some have served well in the past, but they are now stumbling, fumbling, bumbling, and failing the family, children, church, and nation at the critical moment in the battle.”

To Moore, pure political methods will not bring about a lasting cultural and education renaissance in the United States. He feels, instead, that educating children in “Biblical mandates will prove to be a key for the revival of our families, our churches, our nation.” Most thoughtful Christians would agree that that type of instruction occurs best as a lifestyle. Or, as Proverbs 22:6 succinctly puts it, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”

The John Birch Society, although a non-religious organization, can appreciate Moore’s efforts to actively promote such free-market choices as private schools and homeschools as the superior alternatives to state-run institutions. Indeed, many of our nation’s liberal leaders might (privately) agree with that sentiment. President Barack Obama, and his wife Michelle, after all, have chosen to send their children to expensive private schools, as did Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Such decisions could be interpreted as realizing that “Pharoah’s schools,” especially those located in urban areas, continue their collapse into chaos, thanks to union control, social promotions, relentless humanism, family breakdown, and a host of other complex problems.

Further, while public schools aren’t in the business of teaching the Ten Commandments, they have become the main venue to disseminate inaccurate information to millions of gullible students who are taught that socialism is a touchy-feely, compassionate philosophy of governance and that the Constitution grants citizens the right to health care, the right to an education, and a host of other non-existent rights.

This is indeed a crucial time in America’s history, as Moore correctly asserts, to challenge religious groups (which boast large audiences) to “a call to Dunkirk,” or a mass evacuation of Christians from the public school arena. (See video.)

As of late last month, Moore had not heard back from any of the nine groups which were prominently featured in Exodus Mandate’s report card. Regardless, he believes his efforts won’t disappear into a black hole.

Stated Moore, “I am now confident that my message has been received and heard by their leadership; the ball is now in their court.”

Let’s hope that these men and women — who represent the public faces of Evangelical Christendom — realize the hour is too late for band-aid solutions to the worsening education crisis, as its orchestrators continue to dumb down and propagandize the U.S. population at an alarming rate.

Isabel Lyman holds a doctorate in social science and is the author of The Homeschooling Revolution (2000).

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danwhitehead1

March 11, 2009

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The Church today

As I have stated before, read Revelation 3:14-19, the message of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Church at Laodicea, the church in its final state of apostasy. I believe that the Church has become comfortable, timid and weak. I believe she will have much to answer for at the judgment seat of Christ. Rather than trying to withdraw from this very sick world, she should be standing up and holding forth the Word of God, and she's not. Don't be fooled, it's going to get much worse before it gets better. And remember, God begins discipline first in His own house.

Homeschool Grad

March 11, 2009

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God will reserve for Himself a remnant

I love the way that God put it: "I have reserved for myself a remnant." It is difficult to determine how many there are, or what purpose they will serve by being a remnant, but they do exist. As a homeschool graduate and recent candidate for Congress, I can tell you that indeed we must take care of our own house before we can expect the political system to improve.

It is only through a moral revival that America can avoid God's wrath.

MarkGlen

March 11, 2009

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Division is not always good

Christianity in the last 60 years or so has suffered from doctrinal differences which have divided the flocks. The last one ("KJV Onlyism") did, and is doing, more damage than others, because it divided conservatives. In other words the KJV only cult has left some with no option but to go home and form home churches.

danwhitehead1

March 11, 2009

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Agreed

You are 100% correct, Homeshcool Grad. The Lord is never without a witness. There must be a remnant (salt) or our nation would have already been struck down.

Larry Linn

March 12, 2009

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Radical empricism.

Like George said, "Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more."

MarkGlen

March 12, 2009

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The Love of $$$

1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows"
There are two kinds of people and both go broke when one works for money and the other votes for money.

danwhitehead1

March 13, 2009

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To Larry Linn

You, sir, are a fool. Perhaps if you kept silent, no one would know what a fool you are. You could not be more wrong; in fact, you did not say one single correct thing with reference to the Lord God. Satan sure does have his myrmidons in place; you are one of them. I wouldn't be too proud of that.

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