Posted by
Maudie in Mandeville on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:21:29 PM
Some public schools are pushing the proverbial Christian envelope. God bless them. Bible study curriculum in some public schools is really aggravating the left. It seems voices from the past (with an 1848 exception) were strong advocates of teaching the Bible to our children.
The Revolutionary War interrupted trade with England, and since the Bible was commonly used in education, the Continental Congress, in 1782, responded to the shortage by approving and recommending that Robert Aitken of Philadelphia print the first Bibles in America.
In the U.S. Supreme Court case McCollum v. Board of Education (1948), Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote: "It would not seem practical to teach appreciation of the arts if we are to forbid exposure of youth to any religious influences. Music without sacred music, architecture minus the cathedral, or painting without the Scriptural themes would be eccentric and incomplete, even from a secular point of view....One can hardly respect a system of education that would leave a student wholly ignorant of the currents of religious thought that moved the world." But that's the point, isn't it?
Marx knew that religion would have to be removed from the lives of the people if the State were to have dominance over them. The people would not be completely subservient and reliant upon the State as long as they had faith in a higher Being. Jefferson knew this, too. "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." Indeed!
Marx’s ideological descendants (the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, global warming apologists, and the Democrat Party) to this day, try to remove the last vestiges of religion from everyday life. What used to be commonplace, such as mention of God in schools, is now almost non-existent.
In closing, let's hear from, no, not Barry Lynn, nor Al Gore or Julia Butterfly Hill, and not the ACLU, but rather the "father of the Constitution". In the twilight of his life, James Madison wrote that "We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind...to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." As I read the Ten Commandments of God, they are eerily similar, regardless of Protestant, Catholic or Jewish text.
Jefferson trembled 200 years ago. Conservative Christians look forward to His justice that "cannot sleep forever." Bring it on.