Why the majority of 30 year olds and younger believe in sharing the wealth.

A recent Rasmussen poll showed that, "Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters under 30 agree with Obama’s statement" that it is good to spread the wealth. Frankly, I find this statistic concerning but not surprising. Why is America so quickly moving in a socialist direction? One needs to look no further than our American school systems. This radical change began in the early 1900's through the influence and John Dewey. Dewey's educational creed can be boiled down to the following two points. Knowledge isn't true or transferred until it has been experienced. Secondly, schools must teach information with the goal of making social change.

Both of these have had a very large negative impact on our educational system and on our society as a whole. Dewey was a psychologist first and his educational philosophy sought to bring his psychological theory to bear on society as a whole. How best to do this then through Americas educational system. While this format does not give me the space or time to lay it all out, the views expressed in the Rasmussen poll have been largely impacted by nearly 100 years of Dewenian education. Truth is relative. Societal norms aren't established through pre-existent knowledge or revealed truth but by democratic majority. The ultimate use of knowledge is to change society.

When educators bemoan the lack of interest in science and math or decry the fact that America has fallen so far behind the world, they quickly point their fingers at right wing, creationist Christians for the repression of scientific truth. When, in reality, they need to look no farther than their own classrooms. When my son does "science experiments" that prove the already assumed conclusion of global warming, they are then told that they need to take that new found scientific information and tell their parents to inflate their tires, write their congressmen and purchase fluorescent bulbs and hybrid cars. What nonsense! Maybe they should take more time teaching my son the scientific method and use it to produce truly helpful and affordable alternative fuels or new methods of environmentally safe methods of drilling or....you get my point. But instead, university professors for St. Louis would rather complain about Palin being a creationist like that's akin to being scientifically and mathematically ignorant. The ignorance in in the fact that such professors are unaware that the very scientists that brought them the foundational knowledge they use were creationists themselves.

So, where has this long rabbit trail led me? The Rasmussen poll shouldn't surprise us at all. Our 30 year olds and younger are the product of a school system and philosophy of education that has been all about teaching social change, all about truth being experiential and relative. Our chickens have truly come home to roost as the Rev. Wright would say. If, as Christians, we're going to be a salty influence on our world. We need to not only share the Gospel but articulately and aggressively share and demonstrate the superiority of a biblical world life view.