Transcript Lesson_4_Destruction_of_Schools

Presentation 4
Destruction of Schools
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1 Tim 2:1-4
1 First, I tell you to pray for
all people, asking God for
what they need and being
thankful to him. 2 Pray for
rulers and for all who have
authority so that we can
have quiet and peaceful
lives full of worship and
respect for God.
3 This is good, and it
pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants all people to
be saved and to know the
truth.
Do
you
pray
America?
2
“America is great because she is
good, and if America ever ceases to
be good, she will cease to be great.”
Psa. 9:17
The wicked
return to the
grave,
all the nations
that forget God.
1835
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How To Destroy
America
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
• Destroy Biblical
marriage/divorce.
• Destroy the Biblical
role of gov’t.
• Christians remain
silent/retreat
4
How To Destroy
America
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
Start with the
Schools
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How To Destroy
“The
America
philosophy of
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
Start with the
Schools
the schoolroom
in one
generation will
be the
philosophy of
government in
the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
6
How To Destroy
“The
America
philosophy of
• Destroy Her Faith in the schoolroom
Judg
2:10-11
God
(Christianity).
in one
10 After that whole generation had
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generation
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generation grew up, whobe
knew
of
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nor what he hadphilosophy
done for
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government in
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“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be
great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in
explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them
in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place
his child where the scriptures do not reign
paramount. Every institution in which men are
not increasingly occupied with the Word of God
must become corrupt.”
Martin
Luther
America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of
Quotations,1994, p. 404.
U.S. Supreme
Court
1962: Engel v. Vitale
school prayer outlawed
1963: Murray v. Curlett
Bible-reading outlawed
1980: Stone v. Graham
Ten commandments outlawed
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“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be
great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in
explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them
in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place
his child where the scriptures do not reign
paramount. Every institution in which men are
not increasingly occupied with the Word of God
must become corrupt.”
Martin
Luther
America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of
Quotations,1994, p. 404.
U.S. Supreme
Court
1962: Engel v. Vitale
school prayer outlawed
1963: Murray v. Curlett
Bible-reading outlawed
1980: Stone v. Graham
Ten commandments outlawed
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Columbia University’s Dr. John Dewey, atheist,
evolutionist, and founder of the American
Humanist Association, introduced “Progressive
Education” into the American school system
early in the 20th century. He believed:
“There is no God and there is no soul.
Hence, there are no needs for the props
of traditional religion [Christianity].
1859 - 1952
With dogma and creed excluded, then
immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room
for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes.”
1887-1975
Biologist Julian Huxley:
“I use the word ‘Humanist’ to mean someone
who believes that man... his body, his mind,
and his soul were not supernaturally created
but are all products of evolution.”
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Sir Arthur Keith, anthropologist, evolutionist,
Evolution and Ethics summarized the influence
of evolution on Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime:
To see evolutionary measures and tribal morality being applied
vigorously to the affairs of a great modern nation, we must turn
again to Germany of 1942. We see Hitler devoutly convinced
that evolution produces the only real basis for a national
policy.... The means he adopted to secure the destiny of his
race and people were organized slaughter, which has 1866-1955
drenched Europe in blood.... Such conduct is highly immoral
as measured by every scale of ethics, yet Germany justifies it;
it is consonant with tribal or evolutionary morality. Germany... is
demonstrating to the world, in their naked ferocity, the methods
of evolution... The German Fuhrer... is an evolutionist; he has
consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform
to the theory of evolution.
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How To Destroy
America
Arthur M. Schlesinger wrote in
“The Disuniting of America:”
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
Start with the
schools
Revise American
history
“History is to a nation...
as memory is to an
individual. An individual
deprived of memory
becomes disoriented and
lost, not knowing where
he has been or where he
is going, so a nation
denied a conception of its
past will be disabled in
dealing with its present
and future.”
Walter E. Williams, “America’s
Amnesia,” WorldNetDaily.
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How To Destroy
America
Arthur M. Schlesinger wrote in
“The Disuniting of America:”
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
Start with the
Judg 2:10,12
10 schools
After that whole generation
had been gathered to their
Revise
American
fathers,
another
generation grew
up,history
who knew neither the Lord
nor
Hehad
haddone
donefor
for
Israel.
nor what
what he
Israel.
12 They forsook the Lord, the
God of their fathers, who had
brought them out of Egypt.
“History is to a nation...
as memory is to an
individual. An individual
deprived of memory
becomes disoriented and
lost, not knowing where
he has been or where he
is going, so a nation
denied a conception of its
past will be disabled in
dealing with its present
and future.”
Walter E. Williams, “America’s
Amnesia,” WorldNetDaily.
13
Rom 3:15-18
15 "Their feet are
swift to shed
blood;
16 ruin and
misery mark their
ways,
17 and the way of
peace they do not
know."
18 "There is no
fear of God
before their
eyes."
Evolution
served as the
rationale for
the genocidal
tyrannies of
these
leaders
and
counting
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Rom 3:15-18
15 "Their feet are
swift to shed
blood;
16 ruin and
misery mark their
ways,
17 and the way of
peace they do not
know."
18 "There is no
fear of God
before their
eyes."
Evolution
served as the
rationale for
William
Penn,
the genocidal
founder
ofof
tyrannies
Pennsylvania
these
summed
leadersit all
up:
“Those who
will not be
governed by
andbe
God will
counting
ruled by
tyrants.”
15
“The world’s greatest political
success formula. In a little over a
century, this formula allowed a
small segment of the human
family—less than six percent—to
become the richest industrial
nation on earth. It allowed them
to originate more than half of the
world’s total production and
enjoy the highest standard of
living in the world. It also
produced a very generous
people. No nation in all the
recorded annals of the past has
shared so much of its wealth
with every other nation as has
the United States of America.”
Washington: The National Center for
Constitutional Studies, 1985, p. 1.
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Two of the best known school books
in the history of American education
were the 18th century New England
Primer and the 19th century
McGuffey Readers.
It is estimated that at
least 120 million copies
of McGuffey's Readers
were sold between
1836 and 1960.
Henry Steele Commager, Jr. Columbia University
Historian, educator and scholar (also taught at
Harvard & University of Chicago) wrote in the intro.
For a paperback reissue:
What is most impressive in the McGuffey
readers is the morality. From the First
Reader through the Sixth, the morality is
pervasive and insistent, there is rarely a
page but addresses itself to some moral
problem, points up some moral lesson –
industry,sobriety, thrift, propriety, modesty,
punctuality – these were essential virtues
and those who practiced them were sure of
success…The world of McGuffeys was a world where no one
questioned the truths of the Bible, or their relevance to
every day conduct.”
“That our children, today, are better taught than were their
luckless predecessors is generally conceded, though we are
sometimes puzzled that we have not produced a generation
of statesman as distinguished as the founding fathers.”
What is most impressive in the McGuffey
readers is the morality. From the First
Reader through the Sixth, the morality is
pervasive and insistent, there is rarely a
page but addresses itself to some moral
problem, points up some moral lesson –
industry,sobriety, thrift, propriety, modesty,
punctuality – these were essential virtues
and those who practiced them were sure of
success…The world of McGuffeys was a world where no one
questioned the truths of the Bible, or their relevance to
every day conduct.”
“That our children, today, are better taught than were their
luckless predecessors is generally conceded, though we are
sometimes puzzled that we have not produced a generation
of statesman as distinguished as the founding fathers.”
What is most impressive in the McGuffey
readers is the morality. From the First
Reader through the Sixth, the morality is
pervasive and insistent, there is rarely a
page but addresses itself to some moral
problem, points up some moral lesson –
industry,sobriety, thrift, propriety, modesty,
punctuality – these were essential virtues
and those who practiced them were sure of
success…The world of McGuffeys was a world where no one
questioned the truths of the Bible, or their relevance to
every day conduct.”
“That our children, today, are better taught than were their
luckless predecessors is generally conceded, though we are
sometimes puzzled that we have not produced a generation
of statesman as distinguished as the founding fathers.”
“I am convinced that the battleground
for humankind’s future must be
waged and won in the public school
classroom by teacher who correctly
perceive their role as the proselytizers
of a new faith: a religion of humanity
that recognizes and respects the
John Dunphy
spark of what theologians call divinity
in every human being. These teachers must embody
the same selfless dedication as the most rabid
fundamentalist preacher, for they will be ministers of
another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit
to convey humanist values in whatever subjects they
teach regardless of the educational level – preschool
daycare or large state university….”
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The classroom must and will
Become an arena of conflict
between the old and the new
– the rotting corpse of
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Christianity together with all
its adjacent evils and misery and the new
new faith of humanism, resplendent in
its promise of a world in which the never
realized Christian idea of “love thy neighbor”
will be finally achieved.”
(John Dunphy, A Religion
for a New Age, THE HUMANIST, Jan-Feb, 1983, p. 26)
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A New Generation Expresses
its Skepticism and Frustration
with Christianity
Sept. 24, 2007
“The study shows that 16- to 29-year-olds exhibit a
greater degree of criticism toward Christianity than
did previous generations when they were at the same
stage of life.”
“The study explored twenty specific images related to
Christianity, including ten favorable and ten unfavorable perceptions. Among young non-Christians, nine
out of the top 12 perceptions were negative.”
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A New Generation Expresses
its Skepticism and Frustration
with Christianity
Sept. 24, 2007
Common negative perceptions include that present-day
Christianity is judgmental (87%), hypocritical (85%), oldfashioned (78%), and too involved in politics (75%) representing large proportions of young outsiders who attach
these negative labels to Christians.
The most common favorable perceptions were that
Christianity teaches the same basic ideas as other religions
(82%), has good values and principles (76%), is friendly
(71%), and is a faith they respect (55%).
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A New Generation Expresses
its Skepticism and Frustration
with Christianity
Sept. 24, 2007
“One reason that Christianity’s image is changing is
due to the shifting faith allegiances of Americans.
Simply put, each new generation has a larger share
of people who are not Christians (that is, atheists,
agnostics, people associated with another faith, or
those who have essentially no faith orientation).”
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“Spiritually contented people
are dangerous for a variety
of reasons. They don’t make
reliable servants because
they won’t jump at every
command. They test what
is requested against a
code of moral principal.
Those who are spiritually
secure can’t easily be driven
to sacrifice family relations.”
p. 45
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Daniel Webster, 1903
“If we and our posterity
reject religious instruction
and authority, violate the
rules of eternal justice trifle
with the injunctions of
morality, and recklessly
destroy the political
constitution which holds us
together, no man can tell how
sudden a catastrophe may
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overwhelm us that shall bury 2 term Congressman
all our glory in
profound obscurity.”
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“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness….”
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Posted: November 23, 2004
11:38 p.m. Eastern
LAW OF THE LAND
Is Declaration of Independence unconstitutional?
School district sued for censoring founding documents, state constitutions
In a season typified by lawsuits against manger scenes,
crosses and even the words "Merry Christmas," a California
case is taking the "separation of church and state" one step
further – dealing with whether it's unconstitutional to read the
Declaration of Independence in public school.
Attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit Monday
against the Cupertino Union School District for prohibiting a
teacher from providing supplemental handouts to students
about American history because the historical documents
contain some references to God and religion.
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The principle of “checks and
balances” which they termed
the “Separation of Powers”
came from Isa. 33:22
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“For the Lord is our judge
(establishing the judiciary);
“the Lord is our lawgiver”
(establishing the legislature);
“the Lord is our king”
(establishing the executive).
Now historians are discovering that the Bible, perhaps more
than the Constitution is our founding document."
— Newsweek December 27, 1982
30
James Madison, known
as the “Chief Architect of
the Constitution,”
“We have staked the whole
future of American civilization,
not upon the power of
government, far from it. We
have staked the future of all of
our political institutions upon
the capacity of mankind for
self-government; upon the
capacity of each and all of us
to govern ourselves, and to
control ourselves, to sustain
ourselves according to the Ten
Commandments of God.”
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“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live,
the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that
God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow
cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it
probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We
have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that
"except the Lord build the House they labour in vain
that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that
without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this
political building no better, than the Builders of Babel:
We shall be divided by our little partial local interests;
our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves
shall become a reproach and bye word down to future
ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from
this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing
Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to
chance, war and conquest.”
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the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that
God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow
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believe
this;
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over
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aid we shall
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than and
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shall become
a reproach
and bye word down to future
ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from
this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing
Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to
chance, war and conquest.”
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How To Destroy
America
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
• Destroy Biblical
marriage/divorce.
• Destroy the Biblical
role of gov’t.
• Christians remain
silent/retreat
1 Tim 2:1-4
1 First, I tell you to pray for
all people, asking God for
what they need and being
thankful to him. 2 Pray for
rulers and for all who have
authority so that we can
have quiet and peaceful
lives full of worship and
respect for God.
3 This is good, and it
pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants all people to
be saved and to know the
truth.
Do
you
pray
America?