30
Apr
Government education leaders believed that if public education ever became so secular that it did not inculcate religion, morality, and knowledge – if public schools did not teach the Bible, inculcate the principles of Christianity, and incorporate the daily worship of God – then the nation would be better off if the State gave [...]
23
Apr
Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville also reported the same fact about the religious aspect of American public education. His famous work, originally called The Republic of the United States of America and Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined, 44 is today known as Democracy in America. His observations in that work fully confirm the religious [...]
16
Apr
Ironically, the charge of the harmfulness of Christianity to a society is not new; when that claim was raised two hundred years ago, signer of the Declaration John Witherspoon responded forcefully: Let us try it by its fruits. Let us compare the temper and character of real Christians with those of infidels and see [...]
9
Apr
While knowing and applying Biblical guidelines certainly did not prevent all atrocities, it indisputably reduced them. Despite the fact that critics point to a few genuine atrocities perpetrated, or even allegedly perpetrated, in the name of Christianity (e.g., the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, and across the rest of the world; the expulsion [...]
2
Apr
This educational philosophy promoting religious principles had not been introduced by the Founding Fathers (even though they strongly promoted it); that philosophy of education had been introduced a century-and-a-half earlier through America’s educational laws. America’s first public education law had resulted from the experiences of the early settlers who arrived in America. They were [...]
