Texas Homeschoolers: We Shouldn’t Have To Educate Our Kids If They’ll Be Raptured Soon Anyways

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17. While these parents are clearly deranged

I wonder if the Texas court will feel compelled to agree with the plaintiffs?

This isn't a new problem, either. Paul had to deal with this attitude in the church he founded at Thessalonica. Some of the folks there were convinced that Jesus was going to come back soon, so why do anything? Just sit back and wait for God to magically end all this mess and unpleasantness of life. If someone else got screwed, that was just bad timing or bad luck.

Paul had to upbraid these folks by instituting a rule among the small congregation: If you don't work, you don't eat (2 Thess 3:10). Unfortunately, down through the ages, the context of this rule has been lost, and it has been turned into a bludgeon against helping anyone, and a salve for the greedy and selfish to avoid any eleeomosynary activity: "The Bible says you should just starve to death if you can't support yourself," which is decidedly NOT what Paul was talking about.

The plaintiffs are similarly hiding behind bad theology and looking to dodge their parental responsibilities with the blessing of the state. The correct ruling is not just no, but hell no.