The Hidden Blessing of Connecticut’s HB6423
The Rise Up Rally
I attended the Rise Up Rally at the Connecticut State Capital on April 27, 2021, with mixed emotions. On the one hand, this legislation contains the seeds of governmental tyranny and oppression upon our religious liberty. The State of Connecticut swept the People's liberty to obey God according to the dictates of their conscience by eliminating religious exemption to opt-out of vaccines for their children in public schools.
On the other hand, I cannot support public socialistic "education." Public schools teach religious doctrines that are antithetical to Biblical Christianity. Schools have, in essence, become indoctrination centers. Children are taught the religion of evolution, statism, critical race theory, to name a few.
States and schools are moving beyond the philosophy of neutrality and tolerance to whole-scale acceptance of a moral code that the one and only Trinitarian God of the self-attesting Bible finds abhorrent. I won't even go into a Biblical analysis of the idolatrous act of instructing children to put their hand over their hearts and "pledge allegiance" to the Flag of the United States of America. Our allegiance is to Jesus Christ and His kingdom and nothing else.
A Hidden Blessing
I see a hidden blessing in the passing of HB6423. It is the further revelation of the ungodly State that seeks to replace God as the one and only Sovereign over our lives. It reveals the State's agenda that has been around before Plato, who said that the State was our Father in his infamous book The Republic. I studied and analyzed The Republic in my Symposium on Plato course as a philosophy major at Central Connecticut State University.
One of the characteristics of a “god” is the reluctance to share power or allow allegiance to any other authority. The one True Trinitarian God of the Bible says it like this:
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3
The god of the State of Connecticut says it like this:
(starting line 507) (h) Any child who is enrolled in sixth grade or below on or before the effective date of this section who presented a statement, prior to the effective date of this section, from the parents or guardians of such child that such immunization is contrary to the religious beliefs of such child or the parents or guardian of such child, and such statement was acknowledged, in accordance with the provisions of sections 1-32, 1-34 513 and 1-35, by (1) a judge of a court of record or a family support magistrate, (2) a clerk or deputy clerk of a court having a seal, (3) a town clerk, (4) a notary public, (5) a justice of the peace, or (6) an attorney admitted to the bar of this State shall comply with the immunizations requirements set forth in the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection Raised Bill No. 6423 LCO No. 3269 17 of 21 (f) of this section by September 1, 2022. (bold emphasis mine)
The hidden blessing is that Christian parents will see the Beast's true nature and get their children out of public schools and begin educating them according to the truth set forth in Scripture. What is that truth? Logic, science, and morality have no meaning apart from the revelation of the one and only Trinitarian God who has revealed Himself in His self-attesting Bible. We find the foundation of metaphysics (what is real), epistemology (what we know), and ethics (what is right and wrong) in the Bible and nowhere else. The self-authenticating nature of the Scripture means there is no other ultimate authority or standard of Truth.
I know and understand first hand what I am advocating as me and my first wife of 31+ years home-educated our four children from birth to graduation of high school. It was the hardest thing we did and we sacrificed a lot to do it, but our children are worth it. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Our society is falling apart because humanity is seeking to answer these questions in and of itself. Humanism presupposes the source of knowledge can and does come from man's fallible and limited collective mind. Humanism is the religion of "Glory to Man in the Highest." This is the religion taught in public schools. The culmination of this collective wisdom resides in the State.
As William Ross Wallace so aptly wrote:
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is the Hand That Rules the World
The State knows this truth all too well. How long before Christians realize this? Perhaps the passing of HB6423 will remind us once again of this truth. Maybe Christians will see what the untethered State really is - a god that demands total and complete obeisance.
Once Christian parents and all parents, for that matter, realize that the actual harm done to a child is not a cocktail of dozens of vaccines, but the immunization of ungodly teaching of open and vulnerable children, then and only then will the system collapse and true education begin.
