American History Timeline: Socialism in Public Schools

"Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge." (Isaiah 5:13) Are our children gaining sufficient knowledge in school to keep them free? No, because much vital knowledge is not found except in banned books. An American history timeline, ancient and modern, will show how public education became the biased political agenda that it is today.

91, B.C.

In ancient America there was a man named Nehor. He came among the people of a city named Zarahemla, teaching his system of beliefs. As Zarahemla was a free society, there was no law against Nehor's teaching anything he believed. But then Nehor met an elderly man named Gideon, a Christian disciple. Gideon openly expressed his disagreement with Nehor. Deeply offended by Gideon's viewpoint, Nehor brandished his sword and beat upon his opponent until the old man died from the attack.

Nehor was tried and found guilty, not only of murder, but also of what was known then as "enforced priestcraft." This meant that he had tried to enforce his belief system with his sword. When Nehor was executed according to the law of the land, Alma, a Christian prophet and also chief judge of the Zarahemla government, made a prophetic statement that has been fulfilled in America in our day. He said that were belief systems to be "enforced among this people it would prove their entire destruction." (Alma 1:12)

Nehor died, but his followers kept alive the order of Nehor (enforced belief systems). Since then, the order of Nehor has emerged with various names-socialism, communism, fascism, terrorism, etc. Any political system that forces its ideas on a people is modeled after the order of Nehor.

1919, A.D.

Progressive education, a combination of secular philosophies including elements of socialism, began to be implemented in public schools. Secularism swept through Columbia University, the main college that teaches teachers. These teachers taught students who became scientists, journalists, lawyers, government officials, and... other teachers in all levels of academia. By the 1950's, textbooks were praising Karl Marx as a kind, peace-loving man. Eleventh grade history teachers were telling students it was time to knock the Founding Fathers off their pedestals.Teachers graduated from colleges of education bringing their heavy secular influence to other areas of academia.

1963

The United States Supreme Court banned prayer and Bible-reading from public schools. Trying to avoid the "establishment of religion," the Supreme Court actually "prohibited the free exercise thereof," and inadvertently established atheism as the state religion. Countless teachers and students have been punished for praying or reading the Bible in public schools.

When God was removed from the schools, so was accountability. Over time, as Constitutional principles have been replaced by philosophies of progressivism, the slope toward the abyss of moral relativism has become slickened, and slipping down it has accelerated. The destructive moral decline in our society can be traced back to the enforcement of atheism as a state religion.

And what are the consequences of this enforced system of beliefs?

· The theory of evolution has been taught as fact almost exclusively in the schools. Equal time to examine creation or intelligent design has been denied.

· History is no longer taught in the schools. Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln are no longer honored by national holidays in most schools.

· Fornication and abortion are taught as acceptable behavior. Nevertheless, sexually active girls are three times more likely to take their own lives than those who are abstinent. Boys are eight times more likely. Two thirds of teens who have committed moral transgression wish they could go back to innocence again and desperately wish they had waited. (Lundberg, Gary and Joy, "Parents Must Boldly Teach the Consequences of Immorality", Meridian Magazine, February 16, 2006)

Today

The infamous decree of 1963 has filled our schools with the pottage of atheism. Two or three generations of youth have been taught to turn their backs on Judeo-Christian values. Now, in the 21st century, a new state religion has moved into the spiritual void created by that judgment fifty years ago. Masquerading as a religion, it is really a political system, brutally hostile to the Judeo-Christian culture, seeking to replace the United States Constitution with tyranny. The new order of Nehor is terrorism, and as was predicted centuries ago, is proving the destruction of our cherished values and the traditional institutions of our society.

In obeisance to the new state religion, a school district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, after receiving a federal grant from the Foreign Language Assistance Program of the U.S. Department of Education, is instituting Arabic language studies. These Arabic courses would be mandatory at the elementary and intermediate school, and optional at the middle and high schools. The program touts Arabic as "a language of the future." (David Horowitz, OneNewsNow, 2/9/11.)

For decades, schools haven't even taught English properly.

An even more widespread program of indoctrination is entitled "Building Fluency through Practice and Performance." Disguised as a reading program under the heading of "The Promise of America", children are chanting a perverted version of the Preamble of the United States Constitution. The Preamble explicitly states the purpose of the Constitution - to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and...

Enter here the children's chant: the needs of housing, education, transportation, and health care are overseen by the government. The last vital line of the Preamble that is being sabotaged is: "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." The doctrine replacing the heritage of liberty in the minds of innocent children is: "The Promise of America" is socialism. (Mike Opelka, "The Blaze", 3/2/11)

What Is To Be Done?

Parents who do not want their children to be chanting a socialist mantra or to be indoctrinated with other insidious anti-American philosophies have no choice but to take things into their own hands. Charter schools are making courageous efforts, with excellent results, despite bullying by organized labor. The home school movement is a solution for increasing numbers of parents.

If these options are not adequate, parents can still restore and preserve the American heritage of liberty for their families, at home. It's simpler than it looks. Before the tsunami of electronic entertainment swept over our lifestyles, parents used to teach their children history and principles of self-government themselves - at the dinner table. Dinner Talk was a fixture of American Culture. Fortunately, the Bible, history books, and other character-building literature are not banned in our homes. When it comes to transmitting values of faith and character, studies show that parents are still the best teachers. Public schools can not be trusted to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

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