Pastor Joe's ISMs

Because I believe in full truth and disclosure I must tell you that… I am a God fearing, Bible believing, flag waving, gun owning, Constitution loving, capitalistic, disabled American Veteran. You now know where I am coming from.

I call my presentation; ‘ISM’S and Education". America’s Children and our future as a nation are in serious danger. This I will prove. I will also instruct you in who are our Enemies are; and how they work to deceive and control us. Some of you will become angry, some of you sickened, and some of you even frightened.

News Items:

A high school in Ohio denied the right of the senior class to include the American flag in their class photo. Too controversial?

Cupertino, Cal. forbid the study and reading of the Declaration of Independence and other historical documents - because the name of God appears in the document and we have a ‘Wall of Separation of Church and State’ and cannot promote religion.

Carrier Mills, Ill. Students in grade school are ordered to cross-dress for one day, much to the humiliation of some.

About two years ago, [TOP] ranking seniors in America’s top 55 liberal arts colleges and universities were given an old fashioned high-school history exam, 81% received a grade of D or F. 35, of our nations best and brightest, thought that the phrase," From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" [this my friends is the Marxist slogan] was found in OUR Constitution! Over fifty-percent believed that the phrase "wall of separation of church and state" is also found in OUR Constitution. It is not there, but it can be found in the old ‘Soviet Constitution.

About the same time the National Center for Education Statistics issued a lengthy report entitled What Democracy Means to Ninth-Graders: U.S. Results from the International IEA Civic Education Study.

Results show:

84% of American 9^th graders believe it is government’s responsibility to control prices,

65% believe it’s the government’s responsibility to guaranty everyone a job,

64% believe government should reduce differences in income and wealth among our citizens, [redistribution of wealth?]

66% believed government should support and control industry,

88% believed government should provide basic health care for everyone.

Friends – this stuff is right out of the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto.

. Still unconvinced?

According to the George Barna Research Group… only 10% of American’s actually possess a biblical worldview.

Numerous studies reveal the majority of "Christians" [adult and teen]…. think and act virtually no different than non-believers.

Studies by Doctors Gary Railsback and Norm Geisler.... showed that in 1981 50% of students from Christian homes were denying their faith before they graduated from college. Today the figure is over 75%.

The Nehemiah Institute, using years of research, study and polling, sadly claims that the typical Christian student in a Christian high school is scoring [in testing] as a secular humanist. The typical student in a public school scores as having a socialist worldview.

 

The Fifth Federal Circuit Court has previously ruled that speeches and pronouncements from Presidents like George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abe Lincoln and Dwight David Eisenhower cannot be taught in the public schools in their district because the content is unconstitutional.

In 1962 The U.S. Supreme Court prohibited the saying of prayer in public schools. In 1963 the same court banned Bible teachings in the public schools. In 1980 they ordered schools to remove the Ten Commandments from student view.... Allow me to para-phrase their ruling. "If students see the Commandments, they might read them. If they read them, they might study them. If they study them, they might follow them...and that would be unconstitutional.

Since 1962: teen suicide is up 500%...child abuse is up 2,300%...illegal drug use among teenagers up 6,000%... criminal arrests of teens up 1505... births to unwed teenagers girls up 500% ... and SAT Test scores, dumped down twice, are 10% lower.

Finally I would like to tell you about a report issued in late 2003 by the American Psychiatric Association that stated that a new syndrome has appeared. It is called Celebrity Worship Syndrome, in which roughly one-third of the people in Western societies vicariously devotes and attaches their self-identity, values, income and passion to the "Famous’.

"Devote and Attach their Self Identity, values, income and Passion".... Sounds more like how we as Christians should be emulating Jesus.

In the European Union, which touts itself as being secular, only about 2% of the people claim to be fundamental Christian. In England, as well as France, more Muslims attend Mosques than Christians attend church and Muslims are a small minority. Christianity in secular nations is dying.

Some information to ponder: If you survey people at pro-life meetings or events you will find they average having four children per family. People who attend Church on Sunday and pray regularly average three children per family. Most of America, which 86% claim to be Christian, average 2.1 children per family. People, who are pro- abortion, Feminists, homosexual or lesbian activists, and belong to other far left groups, average one-half of one child per their descriptions of family. Demographically speaking Conservatives should be winning by a large margin, as the ranks of the liberals will in time be decimated by a form of self-imposed collective suicide. Their response is to use our educational system to reproduce themselves intellectually, since obviously they are not going to reproduce themselves biologically. In other words...they fill their lost ranks by taking OUR Children!

Abe Lincoln wisely told us "The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next".

We, the American people were warned. There have been many watchers shouting their warnings, but their warnings fell on mostly deaf ears. After all the steps of the enemies were so small, so insignificant, and the decline so imperceptible to most, that people gradually got accustomed to the changes and sensed no immediate threat.

A famous poet once explained this phenomenon when he wrote:

"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien

We first endure, then pity, then embrace"

I find it interesting that one of the first laws in America was "The Old Deluder Satin Law" which began with the words: Whereas Satan’s greatest weapon is the ignorance of men, we hereby....... Ignorance is bliss, is it not?

What does the Bible say: Psalm 111,"Wisdom begins with the fear of GOD".

Throughout history, rulers and court intellectuals have aspired to use the educational system to shape their nations. The model for this was set by Plato in ‘The Republic’. Plato’s model was ancient Sparta, where children were taken from their parents early in life and molded into soldiers for the militaristic Spartan society. Plato’s blueprint came to specify that parents were not to know their children, nor children to know their parents; and the society was to be based upon community of property and community of family. Both children and property were controlled by the State.

This model was use by Prussia, Soviet Russia, Fascist Italy, and later Nazi Germany. In 1717 Prussia, under King William 1, set up Europe’s first national system of education adopting much of Plato’s totalitarian model. The King of Prussia claimed it the duty of the government [HIM] to see, think and act for the whole community. By 1806 Prussia had mandatory attendance, government certification of teachers, and had abolished semi-religious private schools. Parents could be fined or their children taken away by the state for any form of non-compliance.

When a unified German Nation was finally created it was the Prussia school model that prevailed. The German education as stated, must fashion the person and fashion him in such a way that he cannot be otherwise than that which the state wills him to be. "The prime fundamental of German education is that it is based on a national principle...it is education to the state, education for the state, education by the state." The State is the supreme end in view. Later the Soviet Union modeled its school system off the Prussian/German model.

Why Am I telling you all of this?

To introduce you to American Education and our enemies.

The "Soviet Education Programs; Foundations, Curriculums, Teacher Preparation" was published in 1960 by the U.S Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This document was the blueprint for the School-To-Work restructuring that would take place in America. The School-To-Work system in our public schools (all fifty states) is modeled after the Soviet poly-technical system, based on, and I repeat, the Prussian /German model.

The problem with America’s educational system began before John Dewey. In 1805 Unitarians took control of Harvard University. A Unitarian is a member of a faith that rejects the Trinity of God, stresses the free use of reason [man’s], believes in a united world community [one-world order] and advocates liberal social action. During this period Unitarian’s began the push for public education. Why?

Unitarians believed man was essentially good. And that evil in this world was the direct result of poverty and ignorance. Robert Owen, a well known and out spoken Unitarian [known to us today as the Father of modern socialism] told the world that a person’s character is determined by education and upbringing, not by a sinful nature. Secular public schools would transform students into agents of unlimited benevolence. Thus the crusade for public education began. Guess what? The socialist became eager allies of the Unitarians in the push for public education. Horace Mann, the Father of Modern Education was a Unitarian.

By 1857 The National Education Association [The NEA] was founded and even then it was calling for nationalized education. Private schools became the object of scorn and ridicule among NEA Union members, and by 1885 some outspoken representatives were even going so far as to claim both children and property belonged, not to the people, but to the State. . Remember Sparta. Remember: the tenth plank of the Communist Manifesto: "Free education for all children in public schools [and] combination of education with industrial production.

The Socialist ‘Fabian Society’ formed in the late 1800’s, the forerunner of most Socialists groups in America; they had as their motto ‘Make Haste Slowly’. [In other words...gradualism] ‘Democratic Socialism’ became the battle cry to socialize the United States of America. Their goal was to ‘permeate and penetrate’, then control from deep within. Their first target in America was education, the second was Christian Religion and third the government.

"Democracy is indispensable to Socialism." V. I. Lenin

"Democracy is the road to Socialism." Karl Marx

"The goal of Socialism is Communism." V. I. Lenin

"Communism is Socialism in a hurry." V. I. Lenin

Norman Thomas, Socialist and member of the Civil Liberties Union, boldly told the world, "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

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In the early 1900’s, because of unrest in Europe, thousands of socialists flocked to America for safety. Large numbers held degrees in the fields of psychology, sociology and psychiatry,(behavioral sciences, dealing with behavior and [social] change). Many went on to become college and university professors."

In 1936, the National Education Association stated their position, from which they have never wavered; "We stand for socializing the individual." The N.E.A. in its ‘Policy For American Education’ stated; "The major problem of education in our times arises out of the fact that we live in a period of fundamental social change. In the new democracy [we were a Republic] education must share in the responsibility of giving purpose and direction to social change. The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual … Education must operate according to a well-formulated social policy."

Now we meet John Dewey, called ‘the father of modern education’, was an avowed Socialist and Humanist. He is the co-author of the ‘Humanist Manifesto’ and was cited as belonging to fifteen Marxist-front organizations by the Committee on Un-American Activities. Do the words (the father of modern education) now take on new meaning? Remember, Dewey taught the professors who would train America’s teachers. He was obsessed with ‘the group’. In his own words, "You can’t make Socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent." "The child," said Dewey "must always be made to feel part of the group. He must indulge in group thinking and group activity."

John Dewey, was also a follower of the teachings of German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, both men viewed children as animals requiring guidance, control and molding. After visiting the Soviet Union, Dewey wrote six articles on the "wonders" of Soviet education. Students were judged on their abilities to:

Adapt to change

For their collective spirit

On their reactions to groups and individuals designated ‘enemies of the state’

Subordinate morality – to the interests of the class struggle

Note: The Soviet family was declared a ‘basic form of slavery’.

School to Work, in America, is based on the Soviet School System.

There are today, at least 790 federally mandated education programs.

Rosalie Gordon, writing on Dewey’s progressive (Socialist) education in her book "What’s Happened to Our Schools", said "The progressive system has reached all the way down to the lowest grades to prepare the children of America for their role as the collectivists of the future …The group – not the individual child – is the quintessence of progressivism.

After visiting the Soviet Union, Dewey wrote six articles on the "wonders" of Soviet education.

"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent." –John Dewey, in the 90’s America’s public schools adopted the practice of "cooperative learning".

John Dewey – "There has grown up some consciousness of the extent to which a future new society of changed purposes and desires may be created by a deliberate humane treatment of the impulses of youth. This is the meaning of education." Dewey, ‘Human Nature and Conduct’, 1922. P.94

Humanist Manifesto

Abbreviated version of the Humanist Manifesto #1:

Man gradually emerged by chance from lower forms of life over millions of years.

Man creates god out of his own experiences.

Man is his own authority and is not accountable to any higher power.

There are no absolute rules to live by.

All men should be exposed to diverse ‘realistic’ viewpoints, including profanity, immorality, and perversions as acceptable modes of self-expression. NOTE: This is what liberals mean when they push to teach diversity.

All forms of sexual expression are acceptable.

Government ownership or control of the economy should replace private ownership of property and the free market economy.

‘Global Citizenship’ should replace national self-determination.

There is no hope of existence beyond the grave – no heaven or hell.

Abbreviated version of the Humanist Manifesto #1:

#5 All men should be exposed to diverse ‘realistic’ viewpoints, including profanity, immorality, and perversions as acceptable modes of self-expression. **This is part of the liberal progressive definition of DIVERSITY, and why we need to be tolerant of others

Today there are over 10,000 openly Marxist professors and thousands of Humanist professors controlling the universities and colleges that produce America’s teachers and other professionals. Varying forms of Marxist-Humanism are the predominant philosophies of the educational establishment; yet we repeatedly send our most precious gift (our children) off to THEM for ‘education’ (indoctrination). Basically WE are letting the Devil control our children’s education.

For proof of that statement I refer you to Luke 6:40 (NASB)

"A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher". Do we want our children to have a humanist religion, a cultural, socialist Marxist worldview, in which they believe there are no absolutes [Is not God and His Word an Absolute] and that morality is defined by group consensus, which evolves with a changing society?

Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." This is exactly what WE are doing to our children; they are being spoiled by man’s philosophies and deceits after the traditions of men.

II Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?’ Isn’t this exactly what we do when we send our children to government schools?

Two major federal initiatives were developed in 1965 with funding from the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" which was passed in that same year. One was the Behavioral Science Teacher Educational Program; the other was a government publication "Pacesetters in Innovation" - - a 584-page catalogue of behavior modification programs to be used by America’s schools. No, not 584 pages of educational programs, but 584 pages filled with behavior modification programs. In summary, the intent was to create future Americans who would accept the United Nations and the concept of a global nation and one world government.

Catherine Barrett, then president of the National Education Association (1976), gave a speech in which she said, "First, we will help all of our people understand that school is a concept and not a place. We will not confuse "schooling" with education. The school will be the community, the community the school." [This reflects the Communist view of education and lifetime control of the masses.] Barrett continued, "We will need to recognize that so-called ‘basic skills’ which currently represent nearly the total effort in elementary schools, will be taught in one quarter of the present school day. The remaining time will be devoted to what is truly fundamental and basic -- time for academic inquiry, time for students to develop their own interests, time for a dialogue between students and teachers – more then a dispenser of information, the teacher will be a conveyor of values, a philosopher [in secular humanism]. Students will learn to write love letters and lab notes."

*** In1978 J. Catherine Conrad, one of John Dewey’s disciples told the world exactly what was going on: "We must," she said help, "the God-indoctrinated person to realize that morals and ethics are manmade. We must teach him that he must update and discard his outdated, immoral, evil values, replacing them with rational ones"

In the 1980’s, the DOE (Department of Education) changed the character of public schools from ‘teaching’ to ‘ workforce training’, the Soviet poly-technical system. This was done through a DOE work called "Course Goals Collection", fourteen volumes of 15,000 goals covering every major subject taught in public schools. 70,000 copies were distributed to approximately 16,000 school districts then in existence. This is how Outcome-based education made its way into the schools of America. OBE’s purpose is to change attitudes, values and beliefs.

During the 1990’s we were given Goals 2000 and School-to-Work programs that hopefully would transform our schools, which would eventually transform America. School-To-Work was put in place not by legislation, but by executive orders of state Governors. Charlotte Iserbyt in her book "The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America" describes this transformation as "the internationalization of education with the exchanges of data systems, curricula, methods, etc., all essential for the implementation of the international socialist management and control system being put into place right now."

In his last term, President Clinton issued an Executive Order calling for all American schools to adopt "international education". International education is defined in detail in the U.N. World Declaration on Education for All 1990. It is School-To-Work for the world. The March-April 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, written by officials in the Clinton administration, states that the new Federal system of education is based on standards developed by "international agreements". The U.N. World Conference on Education for All, states that the ultimate goal of education is "to work for international peace and solidarity in an interdependent world." That folks, is the beginning of the New One World Order.

The official title of the Nazi party was "The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany". The Nazi’s called themselves "The Children of the New Age of World Order". Those who challenged the Nazi’s power were branded "conservative reactionaries" or worse yet, Christians were condemned as "right wing fanatics". History teaches us that if we do not learn the lessons of the past we are doomed to repeat those mistakes.

John J. Dunphy, righting in The ‘Humanist Magazine’ Jan./Feb 1983 –said it all!

"The battle for mankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom … The classroom must and will become the arena of conflict between the old and the new … the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of humanism."

Our bureaucrats, politicians and educators are constantly blaming either parents, or lack of funds for our school’s dilemmas. The answer is always more money and more government control. For well over fifty years the American voter has believed this line of crap. Victor Gollancz, a famous socialist publisher tells us why he believed that socialism would take over America; "Christians are not exactly bright, so it will be easy for socialism to lead them down the garden path through their ideals of brotherly love and ‘social justice’.

Maybe it’s (past) time the Christian men stand up for their families and their faith and put God back, in charge of this nation and it’s schools, where He belongs. It’s that simple. What do we as Christians do?