Is This Hillsdale's Vision?
Toward theocracy by way of schools
Tennessee will soon be home to two Hillsdale College-affiliated charter schools.
Reading a recent piece from Peter Greene reminded me of the potential long-term danger of this education experiment.
Here’s the bit that sounded familiar:
Or, as she quotes Gary North, a radical free-market libertarian christianist who developed the Ron Paul Curriculum,
Let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then we will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.
This seems to line up with the Hillsdale vision:
Salon.com reported that a charter school network affiliated with Hillsdale College has publicly announced their intention to lure students away from traditional public schools until they collapse while advancing their deeply conservative political and social values.
In fact, Hillsdale President Larry Arnn once wrote:
I have said and written many times that the political contest between parents and people who make an independent living, on the one hand, and the administrative state and all its mighty forces on the other, is the key political contest of our time. Today that seems truer than ever. The lines are clearly formed.
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As long as our representative institutions work in response to the public will, there is thankfully no need for violence.
Got it. So as long as Hillsdale is allowed to advance their agenda by way of gaining approval from local school boards (as in Rutherford County) or a state charter commission (as was the case in Jackson-Madison), there’s no need for violence.
Of course, Gov. Bill Lee has invited Hillsdale in and initially proposed at least 50 Hillsdale charters in the state.
On the fiscal side, that dream of American exceptionalism would cost local taxpayers some $350 million.
The broader implications include replacing secular public schools with openly religious ones - one more step in the march toward theocracy.
This situation is well worth looking into for any and all connections to the Project 2025-> Christian Nationalism network and blending of goals and purposes.
Dominionism is composed of two schools of thought and practice:
1. Christian Reconstructionism which adheres to the key ideas of Theonomy (Law based on a Divine order most notably such as that found in the Old Testament (the Hebrew Scriptures); Postmillennialism (One of three major Protestant Christian Biblical-interpretation derived schools of Eschatology (End of Times studies) theories, the other two being Premillennialism, and Amillennialism); Presuppositionalism (A fallacious epistemological system of Christian apologetics and worldview; it’s primary flaw is primarily and usually Circular Logic); and last but certainly not least Libertarian economics (the justification for divinely justified greed).
2. New Apostolic Reformation which adheres to its key positions of the seven mountains mandate, Apostolic Governance, and Extra-biblical revelation. Nearly all adherents of this version of Dominionism are found in Pentecostal/Charismatic settings and are highly subjective in use and practice and does not have the intellectual backings or strengths of the Reconstructionism school of thought.
The super-majority of Dominionism currently in play for control of all American systems of Government local, state, and Federal is solidly linked to Reconstructionism, of which R. J. Rushdoony is considered its modern day father.
If I may I would like to suggest that you might like to read my most recent report posted yesterday at the following link: https://robertjrei.substack.com/p/maga-mike-and-the-heritage-foundation
Hillsdale; go forth with the armor of God!