In June, the New York Times warned their shrinking secular progressive readership that Oklahoma was planning to bring the Bible into the classroom to be included with other teaching materials this school year.
NYT: "Oklahoma’s state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in an extraordinary move that blurs the lines between religious instruction and public education."
Superintendent Ryan Walters, a Republican, described the Bible as an “indispensable historical and cultural touchstone” and said it must be taught at certain, unspecified grade levels.
The Times noted, "The Oklahoma directive could also be challenged and is likely to provoke another fight over the role of religion in public schools."
Should the Bible and the Christian religion have a role in our schools?
Is the Bible an "indispensable historical and cultural touchstone"?
Be informed, not misled.
The Times continued, "The move comes a week after Louisiana became the first state to mandate that public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, which was quickly challenged in court."
The Times reported in June 2024, "Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation on Wednesday requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in Louisiana, making the state the only one with such a mandate and reigniting the debate over how porous the boundary between church and state should be."
Are the lines "blurred" between religious instruction and public education?
Should the boundary between church and state be "porous?" Should it even exist as the secular progressives envision it to be?
“I can’t wait to be sued,” Mr. Landry said on Saturday at a Republican fundraiser in Nashville, according to The Tennessean. And on Wednesday, as he signed the measure, he argued that the Ten Commandments contained valuable lessons for students.
“If you want to respect the rule of law,” he said, “you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses.”
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaks of a "return to godliness" in America.
The New York Times and a number of other media organizations seized on Alito’s ‘Godliness’ comment saying it echoes a broader Christian movement.
They're right. It does.
"Justice Samuel Alito’s secretly recorded remarks come as many conservatives have openly embraced the view that American democracy must be grounded in a Christian worldview."
When Alito made that statement, the New York Times responded with this:
It’s a phrase not commonly associated with legal doctrine: returning America to “a place of godliness.”
And yet when asked by a woman posing as a Catholic conservative at a dinner last week, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. appeared to endorse the idea. The unguarded moment added to calls for greater scrutiny by Democrats, many of whom are eager to open official investigations into outside influence at the Supreme Court.
But the core of the idea expressed to Mr. Alito, that the country must fight the decline of Christianity in public life, goes beyond the questions of bias and influence at the nation’s highest court. An array of conservatives, including antiabortion activists, church leaders, and conservative state legislators, has openly embraced the idea that American democracy needs to be grounded in Christian values and guarded against the rise of secular culture.
They are right-wing Catholics and evangelicals who oppose abortion, same-sex marriage, transgender rights and what they see as the dominance of liberal views in school curriculums. And they’ve become a crucial segment of former President Donald J. Trump’s political coalition, intermingled with the MAGA movement that boosted him to the White House and that hopes to do so once again in November.
The New York Times and their secular "progressive" brethren in the media are blinded by their own agenda for America.
They have their own religion they want to install as the national religion: Secular Humanism with roots in cultural Marxism.
Our Founding Fathers' biblical worldview created our country on an enduring foundation.
The Bible.
Secular progressives are unsuccessfully trying to sustain the country under the tyranny of relativism and ever-changing "truth."
Founding Father Noah Webster did more than create a dictionary. He created what we know as public education.
Webster said, "Education is useless without the Bible."
He said, "The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields."
He also said, "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which children, under a free government, ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
From our founding as a nation to when John Dewey introduced humanism and cultural Marxism into our educational system from Columbia University---calling it "progressive education"--- it would not have pushed the panic button had a Supreme Court Justice mentioned "Godliness" in a conversation.
In fact, they often did. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, often spoke of God and His providence over America. He even said God has given us the right to elect those who will rule our country.
John Dewey's influence, as it has filtered into our educational system, has produced people like Kamala Harris and Barack Obama, whose themes are "turning the page" and "remaking America."
Without the moral and spiritual guidance of the Bible, we have raised a generation that now seeks leadership and looks upon the Bible as a threat rather than a stabilizing force in our society.
Takeaway
Despite Dewey and his disciples, the Bible has continued to be referenced by leadership in our nation.
Andrew Jackson said, "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."
Abraham Lincoln said, "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. But for it, we would not know right from wrong."
And that's the point. We don't.
Every person in the illusionary world of so-called secular "progressivism" starts the day confused about what to believe or what to do. We've lied to our kids, teaching them to question their gender while offering secret counseling and surgeries to correct the Creator's "mistakes."
We are celebrating their confusion.
Our Freedoms and Liberties are being quietly stolen from us under the guise of "separation of church and state"--- the misrepresentation of Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists assuring them the government was kept from meddling in the church's affairs by a wall that protects religious freedom.
Democrat Harry Truman said, "The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given by Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and Saint Matthew, from Isaiah and Saint Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have a fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State."
I believe we are standing at that threshold today. And I'm not thinking about Trump.
Ronald Reagan said, "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers to all the problems men face."
God bless these educators who are trying to return the Bible to its rightful place in the failing culture of the greatest nation in history.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Faithful. Be Prayerful.