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There is nothing more damning and destructive to America's youth today than the Godless public school system!
I thank God for the Bill of Rights. I thank God for the wisdom of our founding fathers. I thank God for the the First Amendment which gives us the legal right to freedom of speech, press, religion, and the right to peaceably assemble and protest. I am exercising my God-given freedom, by publishing this desperately needed article about the Godless and heathen public school system. There is no evil today like the Communist, humanistic, sexually immoral public school system. I detest the public school system! It is destructive to the faith of children!
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Perhaps you are asking, "What is so wrong with the public school system? In a word, EVERYTHING! Perhaps a better question is: What is right about the public school system? The truth is intolerant my friend. 1 + 1 = 2. Now you can ignorantly claim that 1 + 1 = 3; but you'd be wrong (and probably a product of the public school system). Children are robbed of faith in God in public schools. Instead, children are taught that they evolved from "stardust" which somehow formed into a planet, and then life just happened. Children are taught that humans are animals. If this is true, then bestiality is acceptable, right? This is what the evolutionists teach is it not?
A good Christian family is a bulwark for good morals, the soil for the planting of good character, the tool and means for the furthering of Biblical Christianity and confirming it upon the earth. The family is also the foundation of the nation, as Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, wrote, “In the family lie the seeds of everything that later sprouts and grows into the greater family which is called the nation.” Satan knows this truth better than any Christian. Why do you think the family is under demonic attack from all sides?
The Bible, God's Word, foretold that the time would come when people would be lovers of their own selves, woefully ignorant of the truth. We are certainly living in such a time. The same sun that melts the wax, hardens the clay. I'd like to quote some Scriptures from the Holy and Preserved Word of God (i.e., the King James Bible)...
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." —2nd Timothy 3:1-7
Faith MUST come before knowledge. Character must come before knowledge. To educate a man beyond his character is to produce an educated fool (Romans 1:22, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools"). To educate a man who lacks faith in God is to produce an educated heathen. The public school system produces educated fools. Young children who should be taught about God are instead brainwashed with Evolution and worldly philosophies. I call Evolution, Devilution, and for good reason (Hitler was a big fan of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species). Communism, Nazism, Godlessness and Evolution are all synonymous in ideologies. Welcome to the public school detention-camp.
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” —Communist dictator, Joseph Stalin (1934)

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” —Adolf Hitler
Oh!, but you say, "Parents are supposed to teach their children about faith and character; not the schools." That's like saying that you should push and pull at the same time. The arguments presented by advocates of public education are as senseless and lame as is their educational system. No child, I don't care how good a home they come from, is going to develop properly spending hours each day in a heathen learning environment! You can't teach a child at home that God created mankind; and then expect that same child to learn from a heathen teacher that mankind evolved from apes, without there being a spiritual conflict. It is difficult for a Christian child to have to attend a Godless prisonhouse like the public school system. Satan has a bid for your child.
Communism is of the Devil. Communism is not an ideology; but rather, a secret weapon of THE ILLUMINATI intended to enslaved the human race. It was Karl Marx himself, unquestionably the father of modern Communism, who said:
“My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.” —Karl Marx
Satan wants your child. There is no book series and movie any more evil than THE GOLDEN COMPASS, a fantasy trilogy written by English author Philip Pullman in the late 1990s called His Dark Materials. Philip Pullman is a sinfully proud, God-hating, militant atheist. In a 2001 interview with the Washington Post, Mr. Pullman said:
“I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.”
Pullman targets children, as does wicked Hollywood. Hollywood's Satanic Agenda (1:28 hour documentary exposing the occult roots of Hollywood). The wicked elite who control America want to indoctrinated and control your child. It is indeed a satanic conspiracy. A conspiracy is simply two or more people plotting to do evil. Why is it so hard for people to receive the word “conspiracy.” Do you really think Jane Roe solely caused the legalization of abortion in America? Do you really think Madalyn Murray O'Hair was solely responsible for removing prayer and the Bible from America's schools?
Freemasonry is connected with every form of evil imaginable. Anything that subverts, corrupts and destroys America is perpetrated by Masons. Please understand that 95% of masons are a front for the inner elite who worship Lucifer. It's an organization within an organization, just like Mormonism. The outer 95% are normal everyday people; but the innermost group are sick-minded, secret society, arrogant, Kaballah-controlled, Satan-worshipping scum. People have no idea what's going on in our nation. Watch the following movie in its entirety and you'll feel sick... Obama Rothschilds Choice. Criminals have taken over our nation. President John F. Kennedy tried to warn us about secret societies and a White House coup.
Freemasons are behind the Communist government schools. California and other states have outlawed homeschooling, to ensure that your child is INDOCTRINATED. And to add injury to insult, California just made a law requiring school curriculum to teach homosexual history and promote the Homosexual Agenda. Gay History to Become a Part of California's School Curriculum (LGBT want to live in Sodom).
It was Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist and Soviet spy, who said: “The Communist vision is the vision of man without God. It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world.”

Congressman James Traficant faithfully represented the people of Ohio during his years of office. Anyone who has studied the details behind his court conviction knows that he was wrongfully persecuted and prosecuted because he was working relentlessly to establish an oversight office with the sole purpose of investigating the crimes of the Justice Department. The criminal powers behind the Federal Reserve Banks, Washington D.C. and the legal system of America, wouldn't stand for that, so they made an example out of him. Rep. James Traficant is a man whom I respect and honor tremendously for his faith in God, zeal for truth, and courage to stand up against the evildoers in high power.
The public school system was designed to brainwash children to bring to fruition a New World Order. Children are deliberately being dumbed down. If voting could change anything, it would be outlawed. Freemasons were instrumental in starting the public school system, as a fulfillment of Karl Marx's 10th Plank of the Communist Manifesto (thus enabling the government to brainwash and take total control over children). They're dead serious! Those people today who scoff at the notion of a New World Order are ignorant of the times. Also see: Quotes on the NWO.
DEVILUTION
Public Schools No Place for Teacher's Kids
They Spit in His Face! | The Nation that Forgot God!
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) EXPOSED!
In case you didn't know, the 10th Plank of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto called for a "public school system." Public schools are government schools!
"I am unalterably opposed to the public school system"
—Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001)
Though some advocates of the public school system would lead us to believe that there are many good schools in the system, there are none. It all depends on how you define "good." Sure, I know that there are a few academically great schools in the system; but a child requires more than mere "academics" to develop properly. A developing child's moral mindset will be determined by the presence (or LACK OF) Biblical principles being instilled in them. Remember that the Heaven's Gate cult was composed mostly of the collegiate type. Education must never be exalted above faith in God, for without faith in God there is NO morality. If there is NO God than man becomes his own god, i.e., humanism.
Every child should be taught the Ten Commandments. Every child should be taught faith in God. Of course, this is ILLEGAL in public schools. However, contrary to what many parents have been led to believe, it is NOT illegal for a child to pray or read the Bible in a public school (although many teachers have removed such children wrongfully because teachers don't understand the law). However, it is illegal for a public school or teacher to sponsor such activities. A child can bring a Bible into class, but the teacher cannot read that Bible to the class. So sad! A teacher could be fired for leading the class in prayer. Is it any wonder why the United States today makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like a nice place to live?
"Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school."1
—Texas Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon
The official position of the government-operated public school system is that God and the Bible are NOT welcome, and are NOT to be promoted. Perhaps you think that this is good because it separates religion from state. Or does it? Is not Evolution the religion of Humanism? Yes, it most certainly is! "Humanism" teaches that mankind is inherently good and that we are our own gods. Though most humanists would deny this, the fact that they look to humanity to solve all their problems proves it. Humanism excludes God. Our government excludes God. Excluding God can only lead to Communism and a Godless Totalitarian Police State, which is where the U.S. is headed.
Don't take my word for it. Following are the words of one of the most influential sickos that engineered the public school system... George Brock Chisholm:
The responsibility for charting the necessary changes in human behavior rests clearly on the sciences working in that field. Psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, economics and politicians must face this responsibility..." said G. Brock Chisholm in his article, "The Re-establishment of Peacetime Society," in PSYCHIATRY, February 1946. He said, "There is something to be said... for gently putting aside the mistaken old ways of our elders, if that is possible. If it cannot be done gently, it may have to be done roughly or even violently."
"The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality, the concept of right and wrong... For many generations we have bowed our necks to the yoke of the conviction of sin. We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers...
"...it has long been generally accepted that parents have the perfect right to impose any points of view, any lies or fears, superstitions, prejudices, hates or faith on their defenseless children. It is, however, only recently (1946) that it has become a matter of certain knowledge that these things cause neuroses, behavior disorders, emotional disabilities and failure to develop to a state of emotional maturity which fits one to be a citizen of a democracy... (Translation: Citizen of the New World Order)
"Surely the training of children in home and schools should be of at least as great public concern as their vaccination for their own protection... Individuals who have emotional disabilities of their own, guilts, fears, inferiority's, are certain to project their hates on to others... They are a very real menace... Whatever the cost, we must learn to live in friendliness and peace with ... all the people of the world..." [1]
The public school system was born out of an antichrist, antifamily, and anticountry mentality. Here's a couple more quotes from the godless G. Brock Chisholm:
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas."
-George Brock Chisholm
"The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy."
-George Brock Chisholm

by Gary Bergel
A recent statistical analysis by David Barton graphically illustrates how America has plummeted from righteous living, prosperity and success in the last quarter century. Consider the following chart compiled from his study, America: To Pray or Not to Pray. 1
As you might have already noticed on Mr. Barton’s graph, America’s moral decline rapidly accelerated following one event – the U.S. Supreme Court’s removal of prayer from our nation’s schools. On June 25, l962, 39 million students were forbidden to do what they and their predecessors had been doing since the founding of our nation – publicly calling upon the name of the Lord at the beginning of each school day.
The New York school children which prompted the Engel vs. Vitale ruling had simply prayed: “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee and beg Thy blessing over us, our parents, our teachers and our nation.”
America has experienced radical decline in each of the four areas which the children’s prayer touched upon: youth, family, education, national life. Minor recovery has occurred only since 1980 when the election of President Reagan brought forth a renewed emphasis on “traditional” values.
The removal of prayer from our schools was a violation of the third commandment which commands us “not to take the name of the Lord in vain.” By the judicial act of forbidding invocation, the Court audaciously elevated a secularized system of education beyond the authority, reach and blessing of God Himself. Worse than taking the Lord’s sacred name in vain is treating it with contempt, denying it rightful place and stripping it from public use and even from the lips of children. Jesus’ own expressed desire, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them” was also violated by these judges, many of whom were raised in Christian homes.
But there was actually a gross violation of the third commandment by the U.S. Supreme Court a year earlier. A ruling in 1961, I believe, paved the way for stripping the Lord’s name from our children’s lips. In Torcaso vs. Watkins, the court overruled a provision of the Maryland Constitution which made “a declaration of belief in the existence of God” mandatory for holding public office.
Roy R. Torcaso, a Maryland resident and an avowed atheist, was refused a notary public commission when he would not subscribe to the required oath. His case was brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court ruled to sanction atheism and overruled the Maryland Constitution.
Rev. T. Robert Ingram records columnist Felix Morley’s shrewd observations on this 1961 ruling in his study, The World Under God’s Law. Mr. Morley, writing in the Nation’s Business September 1961, pointed out “the absurdity of having an official administer to others oaths in the sanctity of which he does not himself believe.”
The effect of this ruling is not just to eat away at the sacredness of the name of God, but to eliminate the sacredness and thereby the substance of the oath itself. With solemn oaths and binding contracts between individuals removed, the state eventually sits where God ought, and only the state’s cause is held valid. There is no longer an absolute and just legal basis for judging “between a man and his brother,” much less a man and his neighbor (Deuteronomy 1:16, 17). All affairs of life become subject to state, rather than individual control.
Rev. Ingram documents and points out that “a broad, organized attack reaching into high places is under way to remove the third commandment from legal standing in the United States and throughout the world.” He points out that, “the World Court, for example, presumably the new fountain of justice, or a prototype of the socialist dream of world government, has no provision for’taking the name of God’ – no oath.” The Socialist agenda of world domination makes no place for solemn “swearing” between individuals.
Jesus’ teaching on oath-taking recorded in Matthew 5:33-37, while often misinterpreted, is actually a strong affirmation of the third commandment and a clear warning that “the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain” (Exodus 20:7).
Besides forbidding perjury, (calling God to witness a lie) and false swearing, this passage also forbids all rash and unnecessary swearing, and especially warns against promissory oaths – that require a performance. Our “Yes” should be “Yes,” and our “No” should mean “No.” If understood, our word uttered in integrity should of itself be a sufficient and proper bond.
The “evangelical prophet,” Oswald Chambers (1874 – 1917), saw that the empty promises made by so many Christians actually result in great “spiritual leakage.” He admonished his followers: “Always beware of vowing, it is a risky thing. If you promise to do a thing and don’t do it, it means the weakening of your moral nature. We are all so glib in the way we promise and don’t perform and never realize that it is sapping our moral energy.“2
Think then, what happens to a nation rife with perjury, broken marriage covenants, unforgiveness, cults with demonic covenants, extortion, bribery, libel, slander, profanity, hypocrisy, idle talk, and lawsuits initiated solely for revenge and personal gain. We are living witnesses that truly “the Lord does not hold such a nation guiltless.”
Regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, we must each, as Oswald Chambers declared, realize that “God’s laws are not watered down to suit anyone; if God did that He would cease to be God. The moral law never alters for the noblest or the weakest; it remains abidingly and eternally the same.”
After more than 25 years of severe moral decline is it not time to repent, reverence the name of the Lord, reinstitute and keep the third commandment?

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