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Explore the top disciplinary problems in public schools from the mid-1940s to the mid-1980s, highlighting the alarming increase in issues such as drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, and assault. Discover the societal changes that contributed to the rise of wickedness in schools.
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The Rise of Falsehood • Increase of FALSE CHRISTS • Increase of FALSE MYTHS • Increase of FALSE TEACHING • Increase of FALSE PROPHETS
The Rise of Wickedness Top Public School Disciplinary Problems Mid-1940’s Mid-1980’s 1) Talking 2) Chewing Gum 3) Making Noise 4) Running in the Hall 1) Drug Abuse 2) Alcohol Abuse 3) Pregnancy 4) Suicide
The Rise of Wickedness Top Public School Disciplinary Problems Mid-1940’s Mid-1980’s 5) Getting Out of Line 6) Improper Clothing 7) Not Putting Paper in the Wastebasket 5) Rape 6) Robbery 7) Assault
Founding Fathers on Christianity • John Adams: “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean hell..
Founding Fathers on Christianity • The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.”
Founding Fathers on Christianity • John Jay: (Original Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) “Mercy and grace and favor did come by Jesus Christ. By conveying the Bible to people we certainly do them a most interesting act of kindness.
Founding Fathers on Christianity • The most effectual means of securing the continuance of our civil and religious liberties is always to remember with reverence and gratitude the source from which they flow. The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next…
Founding Fathers on Christianity • Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
Founding Fathers on Christianity • Benjamin Rush: (Father of Public Schools Under the Constitution) “The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!…
Founding Fathers on Christianity • The great enemy of the salvation of man, (satan) in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools…
Founding Fathers on Christianity • Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy. The Bible should be read in our schools in preference to all other books.”
Founding Fathers on Christianity • Congress U.S. House Judiciary Committee 1854: “Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle…
Founding Fathers on Christianity • In this age, there can be no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”
Founding Fathers on Education • The first colleges formed in America (123 out of 126) were formed on Christian principles. • Up until 1900 it was very rare to find a university president who was not and ordained clergyman.
Founding Fathers on Education • The New England Primer, America’s first textbook and used for 210 years taught the alphabet like this: A – In Adam’s fall we sinned all. C – Christ crucified for sinners died. Z – Zaccheus he did climb the tree our Lord to see.
Founding Fathers on Education • George Washington made it crystal clear that American schools would teach Indian youths the “religion” of Jesus Christ and Congress assisted in doing so. • In 1782, Congress had 10,000 bibles printed for use in schools.
Founding Fathers on Education • Thomas Jefferson wrote the first plan of education for the city of Washington D.C. and adopted two textbooks, the Bible and Watts Hymnal, and hired clergymen to be the teachers. • In fact, wait until you here where the largest Church in America used to be held…
Humanist Manifesto • Faith in the prayer-hearing God, assumed to live and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith.
Humanist Manifesto • We find insufficient evidence for the belief in the existence of a supernatural. We begin with humans not God. • We do not accept as true the literal interpretation of the Old and New Testaments.
Humanist Manifesto • We include a recognition of an individual’s right to die with dignity, euthanasia, suicide, birth control and abortion. • We believe that intolerant attitudes, often cultivated by orthodox religions and puritanical cultures, unduly repress sexual conduct.
Humanist Manifesto • Divorce should be recognized. The many varieties of sexual exploration should not be considered “evil.” • We oppose any tyranny over the mind of man to shackle free thought. In the past such tyrannies have been directed by churches and states attempting to enforce the edicts of religious bigots.
Humanist Manifesto • Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful. • Salvationism, based on mere affirmation, still appears as harmful, diverting people with false hopes of heaven hereafter. No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.
Humanist Quotes • John Dewey, the “Father of Progressive Education” co-author of the first Humanist Manifesto and honorary NEA president: “There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes.”
Humanist Quotes • Orestes Brownson: “(Our) great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks on religion...but to establish a system of state schools, from which all religion was to be excluded...and to which all parents were to be compelled by law to send their children. For this purpose, a secret society was formed and the whole country was to be organized.
Humanist Quotes • Paul Blanshard: “I think that the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends to lead toward the elimination of religious superstition.”
Humanist Quotes • Charles F. Potter: “Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday School’s meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?”…
Humanist Quotes • G. Richard Bozarth: “We must ask how we can kill the God of Christianity. We need only to insure that our schools teach only secular knowledge. If we could achieve this, God would indeed be shortly due for a funeral service.”
Humanist Quotes • John Dunphy: “I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity…
Humanist Quotes • These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach…
Humanist Quotes • regardless of educational level--preschool, day care or a large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new – the rotting corpse of Christianity…and the new faith of humanism.”
Humanist Quotes • Harvard Professor of Education and Psychiatry: “Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural Being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It is up to you teachers to make all these sick children well by creating the international children of the future.”
Genesis 3:4-5 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
