The Founders of our country, in the Declaration of Independence plainly stated: (in snippets) "...God entitle them", "..all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights", "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions", "a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence"
Their entire premise for the RIGHT to throw off the tyranny of the King of England appeals to GOD.
That's why it is so important for history to be re-written by the Secular Humanists, also called the Progressive Secularists, also called Socialists, also called Communists.
Historical revisionism
Historian Forrest McDonald is often critical of the turn that revisionism has taken but he nevertheless admits that the turmoil of the 1960s in the United States changed the way history was written. He wrote:
The result, as far as the study of history was concerned, was an awakened interest in subjects that historians had previously slighted. Indian history, black history, women’s history, family history, and a host of specializations arose.
These expanded horizons enriched our understanding of the American past, but they also resulted in works of special pleading, trivialization, and downright falsification.[7]
Just a few days ago, my wife disbelieved this has happened in the Public Schools. She went to the local Public School and borrowed a few textbooks. Not surprisingly, the Biology book was Evolution from cover to cover. But the History book omits the first settlement of America by the Pilgrims, which they euphemized as "the first wave". Period. Three words. The book then takes up history with the westward migration of the "Pioneers". A rather large omission, I think.
For an American to understand the importance of "all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" cannot possibly be overstated.
This is the single basis for ALL American Freedom, Liberty, and what the SOVEREIGNTY of the individual is all about. Individual sovereignty has also been called SELF OWNERSHIP. (Also see Communist Stumbles into Self-Ownership)
This is a concept that cannot be allowed to be widely known in a society that enslaves it's citizens.
Which in a nutshell is why America has been Deliberately Dumbed Down. Fact-based education has been replaced with feelings, self-esteem, and Condom Skills Building.
It was widely understood from the very beginning of the United States that only an educated population could be a free population-
The New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1912 stated:
"Free schooling . . . is not so much a right granted to pupils as a duty imposed upon them for the public good. . . . While most people regard the public schools as the means of great advantage to the pupils, the fact is too often overlooked that they are governmental means of protecting the state from consequences of an ignorant and incompetent citizenship."
It was also understood that the form of government our Founders instituted was suitable only for a moral and self-controlled population.
""We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: Oct. 11, 1798; Address to the military
Our American system of government is entirely based on the premise that we are Endowed by a Creator with inalienable rights.
If our "rights" do not come from the CREATOR, then we have no rights at all. We have only dispensations from government. Not rights, but privileges.
Our FOUNDING PRINCIPAL PREMISE has been written out of history.
Can you understand now why this is The BIGGEST MISSING PIECE in "Public Education"?
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Ben Franklin Quotes-
This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
Coach Dave Daubenmire-
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Without it, America is a lawless nation and those in power are the boldest criminals.
Please remember this; we have no Constitutional Rights, we have God-granted rights. The purpose of the Constitution was to restrain government. The Bill of Rights should actually be called the Bill of Government Limitations. Individual citizens cannot violate the Constitution. Only governments can
Socialism is coming at us faster than a locomotive and we can’t even hear the train whistle. If we don’t rise up soon and DEMAND that government stay within the restrictions that the Founders put in place we will never pass to the next generation the “blessings of liberty” that our fathers passed to us.
Butler Shaffer-
If "liberty" means anything, it consists of an unqualified respect for individual claims to immunity from coercion....Liberty has meaning only insofar as it is the worldly expression of individual claims to self-ownership. To be an owner is to insist upon the authority to exercise control over some portion of the world, including one’s self. It is the idea and practice of such individually-directed decision-making that makes every state the unavoidable enemy of liberty. Take away the existential basis for such a claim, and each of us gets reduced to nothing more than a resource for others to exploit for their purposes. As I tell my students on the first day of my property classes, if you claim self-ownership, why do you allow others to exercise control over you? And if you do not assert self-ownership, what objections can you raise to others’ exercise of such coercive power?
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society"-Theodore Roosevelt
