There’s trouble in Camelot. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his third party campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump. RFK’s family of life-long democrats are livid. But I believe that Kennedy’s dad and Uncle John would have a problem with the radical far-left Hamas wing of the democrats today. The Democrat Party of the 1960s is a far cry from what it is today.
Stephen Moore writes, “President John F. Kennedy was a staunch anti-communist who fought against union and government corruption. He was a pro-life Catholic. He was laser-focused on faster growth (“we can do bettah”) and saw sweeping tax rate reductions as a step toward achieving 4% to 5% growth.”
Democrats today do not believe in those principles.
Indiana has Caitlin Clark fever.
HOW TO COMBAT SECULAR NATIONALISM
Louisiana passed a law requiring public schools to have a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in all public school K-12 and state-funded university classrooms.
In Oklahoma, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters issued a directive on June 27 that all the state’s public schools “incorporate the Bible … as an instructional support into the curriculum.” Schools will also be required to stock a Bible in every classroom.
On March 13, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed House Bill 1137 into law which “Requires a principal to allow a student to attend religious instruction conducted by certain entities following the principal’s receipt of written notice from the student’s parent.”
These states are trying to undo the damage that Secular Nationalism (i.e. – godlessness) has produced in America.
John Dewey, known as the Father of American Education and a signer of the Humanist Manifesto I, declared, “Schools do have a role—and an important one—in production of social change.” What kind of change did he want? In the September, 1933 issue of Teacher Magazine p. 33 he wrote, “There is no God and no soul. Hence, there are no needs for props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried.”
Look at the results: From 1940 to 1962 — the top complaints from school teachers were: students talking in class, chewing gum and running in the halls. Since 1963 to the present, school officials have dealt with rape, robbery, assault and shootings.
So what happened in 1963? Dewey’s godless goal was achieved when the U.S. Supreme Court – in a series of three decisions in 1962 and 1963, removed Bible and prayer from our public schools. Our Founding Fathers warned against doing that.
Was Dewey successful? Let’s see:
- According to an Axios poll in June, 2021, “Fifty-two percent of Gen Z respondents said they have a positive view of socialism.” Check.
- School Board meetings are filled with parents who are outraged about the teaching of Critical Race Theory, pornographic books in school libraries, and transgender rapes in restrooms that are covered up by school officials. Check, check and check.
Yes, I would say that Dewey and his cohorts successfully ruined, not just the educational system, they have ruined America’s future.
John Adams, the second president of the United States, said, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
In George Washington’s farewell address he said, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
The faith of our Founders was deeply rooted in a Bible-based education that started in Massachusetts in 1647 when Puritans passed the “Old Deluder Law” which read, “It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue…”
The law ordered townships to hire a teacher to train children to read so they could read the Bible. In 1690, the New England Primer was published which used Bible verses to teach the alphabet.
In 1798, Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence wrote, A Defense of the Use of the Bible as a School Book. In it he said, “I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them… we neglect… the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.” Rush was right.
Dewey trained teachers who trained future generations that there is no God, that creation just magically created itself and that they are just advanced evolved animals. It shouldn’t be surprising then, when some people act like animals today.
So how do we combat Secular Nationalism? Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
This is why I applaud Louisiana, Oklahoma and Indiana for trying to return to the Biblical principles that were essential for America’s birth as a nation. At this point what have we got to lose?
RIGHT LINKS
Townhall – Rebecca Downs: JD Vance once again schools liberal Sunday show hosts, especially on the border.
Townhall – Madeline Leesman: Tulsi Gabbard endorses Donald Trump.
The Federalist – Beth Brelje: Michigan jury finds seven Pro-Lifers guilty Of FACE Act violations for preventing baby deaths.