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It is misleading in Mr. Davidson’s otherwise fine article below he writes;

The law defies a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar law in Kentucky, so this is certain to be challenged in court — a prospect supporters of the legislation are counting on. “I can’t wait to be sued,” said Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who has been rather open about one of the purposes of the law: to challenge Supreme Court precedent on the First Amendment, specifically regarding the establishment clause, which for the past half-century has been used to excise nearly all formal recognition of religion from America’s public schools.

And that Mr. Davidson makes it all about human politics rather than the actual, factual spiritual war that every person is involved in. It is about men and women and state legislatures, it is about laws enacted, court cases, and so on — but all of those are only the visible and audible signs revealed of the escalating spiritual war every person is engaged in — even the idle, silent person refusing to believe, refusing to acknowledge their part in this massive war — human politics are merely the result of the ensuing spiritual war waged and raging all around and within folks.

It may appear it’s all about politics and conservative vs. liberal, but there is a large segment of professed conservatives that are sexually immoral and perverted, that are selfish and greedy, that break laws, that do not believe what is contained in the Holy Bible, and that do not believe in God.

This blanket conservative vs. liberal, the right vs. the left is not only grossly inaccurate it’s nonsense to place any serious stock in.

Why? Because there are only two kinds of people period. No matter any other factors.

There are God’s true people. No matter their background, their sin, their nationality, ethnicity, native language, faith or lack of such of their parents, their age, gender, height, weight, material wealth, level of education, and on and on.

There are only God’s true people. Those who believe His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth fully truly God taking on skin, flesh just like all of us to become also fully truly man. To show us the Father and the kingdom to come. To be the only acceptable Sacrifice for the washing away, the forgiveness of sin by His Sacrificing Himself on the Roman tree of shame. To die. To bleed pure holy sinless blood. To be acknowledged while on that hill on that tree by a criminal, and by a Roman soldier that He, this Jesus of Nazareth, this Yeshua born of a virgin in Bethlehem was “truly the Son of God.”

This Son of God, this Jesus of the Holy Bible to walk out of the tomb leaving it empty on the Third Day. To over a period of 40 days to be seen by over 500 witnesses. This Jesus.

It’s all about God.

It’s all about the Lord Jesus Christ.

It’s all about the Holy Spirit.

It’s all about the Holy Bible once read in American classrooms daily for OVER 200 years; the Bible in American schools 1700-1900,  as this nation prospered, grew, was protected, and became the beacon unto the world that we once were.

How quickly did this turnabout occur? Well, I’m alive and I was not a neighbor to any of the Founding Fathers, or around to witness the Wright Brothers’ first flight, or Tom Edison inventing the phonograph and incandescent lightbulb…but I am old enough to remember when I was in a public school elementary school we prayed every morning to the God of the Holy Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We said the pledge of allegiance. And the Holy Bible was read from time to time. Not daily as it once was. But those practices still occurred where I grew up in the late 1950s and up until a mere couple of minions of Satan shouted and threw a fit and got their cases all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to illegally, against the Constitution, against the God-given rights, against the given freedoms and liberties as an American that were trashed in order to go from serving God to serving Satan.

And how have things gone since then?

The past 70, 80 years began a visible, audible, palpable turning from God, from Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and from the Holy Bible to where we are presently. It didn’t take long from going where we were to where we are now all due to our turning from God. Turning from Jesus. Turning from the Holy Bible.

All the while the lie being spread that in so doing we would progress been greater and become an even better people and nation.

How’s that going by the way?

And from a Time Magazine article appearing in December 2014 written by Eric H. Yoffie;

Teaching about Islam in American schools is permitted by our legal system. Indeed, it is encouraged.

In 1963, in the landmark case Abington v. Schempp, the Supreme Court prohibited school-sponsored Bible reading in public schools, but also allowed—and in fact endorsed—the study of religion in school settings. Writing for the Court, Justice Thomas Clark observed: “It might well be said that one’s education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its advancement of civilization.” Several subsequent decisions reiterated the point that schools may not advocate or indoctrinate when it comes to matters of faith, but they have every right to offer academic instruction about religion.

Here’s the thing. And it’s a BIG thing. From America’s founding up until and into the 20th century America prospered, grew, was protected, and greatly, richly blessed by abiding in large part in our Founding Principals which were based on freedoms, liberties, and rights — all of which cannot exist unless granted by a Sovereign and Supreme and Unchangeable Omnipotent God, not by man. As men come and go and they can add or remove a right according to their nature and beliefs, but God is eternal and unchangeable and it is He Who is the giver of every and all rights.

So, America’s Founder’s almost to a one, were men of faith. Christian faith. They did not want to impose a national religion at all on the people or within the government. That’s what the context of the First Amendment is about. Not allowing Congress, the only governmental body that was given the power to write and enact laws — not presidents, not the Supreme Court as is greatly misunderstood among an ignorant population — but each of them knew in their hearts that it was only by Divine Providence that America won the Revolutionary War and its independence from England. Don’t believe any of this? Take about an hour of your time, two hours if you really want to learn some truths, some facts, some real history and learn the truth, the facts, the real history.

Not only should the Ten Commandments be taught, explained in-depth in every school in America — the inerrant infallible living and active Word of God needs to again be read, taught, and spoken of, and its wisdom and truths a part of the curriculum of every school in America.

Want to see real prosperity? Real protection? Real growth? A return to sanity, safety, honor, respect, responsibility, and for life in America to radically change for the better? To truly progress? And it won’t cost one single extra tax dollar. Won’t require a new government agency or increased bureaucracy, and it would be the only truly 100% guaranteed program to improve America?

Begin reading, teaching the entire Holy Bible daily in every American school.

Imagine that…

If Islam, if the Qur’an, if Buddhism, if Hinduism, if every other world religion — if Paganism is taught more than any other world religion in American schools as they are? Why can’t the Holy Bible be taught? And not to be torn apart. Taught by personal interpretation by evil men and women serving Satan, this world, but be taught objectively. Logically. Rationally. Critically.

Imagine that!

Remain silent. Remain idle and that is remaining complicit and in approval of the evil and the Evil One doing what it and he does best.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Tuesday, June 25th, 2024

 

 

The Ten Commandments Should Be Taught In Classrooms, Not Just Hung On The Wall

 

June 21, 2024

by JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON

Reprinted from The Federalist & Renew America

 

Louisiana made news this week for passing a law that mandates the Ten Commandments be displayed on the walls of every public school classroom, including elementary schools, middle and high schools, and all public college classrooms.

The law defies a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar law in Kentucky, so this is certain to be challenged in court — a prospect supporters of the legislation are counting on. “I can’t wait to be sued,” said Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who has been rather open about one of the purposes of the law: to challenge Supreme Court precedent on the First Amendment, specifically regarding the establishment clause, which for the past half-century has been used to excise nearly all formal recognition of religion from America’s public schools.

As a vehicle for challenging bad pre

edent, the law seems sufficient. But another purpose for it, at least according to Landry and other Republicans, is to instruct and mold students. “If you want to respect the rule of law,” the governor said, “you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses.”

This is true as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go very far. The idea that posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms will do anything to inculcate in students a respect for the rule of law, to say nothing of basic morality, is pure fantasy. You might say it’s necessary but not anywhere close to sufficient.

If you want to teach students to respect the rule of law and understand that just laws are based on objective moral standards, then you’re going to have to do more than post the Ten Commandments. You’re going to have to get to the root cause of why these things are not taught in public schools anymore — in fact the opposite is taught, that objective morality is oppressive and that the rule of law is systematically racist.

That means you’re going to have to do something about the teachers and administrators. It’s no secret that public school teachers all over the country tend to be far more left-wing than the average American and that no matter how small or conservative your community might be, its teachers and librarians and public school administrators are among the most radical people in it. They are supported by powerful teachers unions and come out of an education and credentialing pipeline that exists to put left-wing ideologues in classrooms and school bureaucracies.

If you really want students to learn about the importance of the Ten Commandments — to say nothing of Christianity, Western philosophy, or the American founding — then you’d better be ready to take on the teachers unions and dismantle the teachers colleges and credentialing programs.

All of those things are of course well within the mandate of state legislatures. If the GOP-controlled Louisiana legislature has enough votes to mandate the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in the state, surely they have enough votes to shut down the teachers colleges and repeal the laws requiring that every public school teacher be credentialed from such colleges.

It’s all well and good to pass laws with a view of changing Supreme Court precedent on establishment clause jurisprudence, but that doesn’t really strike at the root of the problem. Even if the Ten Commandments are allowed to remain on the walls of Louisiana classrooms, students aren’t going to learn anything about them unless they’re taught by teachers who themselves understand the importance of the Ten Commandments.

Therein lies the problem. The institutions that were once supposed to safeguard our education system have been taken over and transformed by leftist radicals who hate the very things we need them to teach our students — like respect for the rule of law or what the Ten Commandments are and where they came from.

What can be done about this? Plenty. Conservatives who actually care about such things are in the minority in America. They don’t wield a lot of institutional power. But Republicans, who count at least some conservatives among their ranks, currently control state legislatures and governors’ mansions (trifecta control) in 23 states. If the GOP in those states really wanted to fight back against the left’s control over public schools, it could push for the abolition of teachers colleges, or of credentialing requirements, or change them so that public school teachers need not be indoctrinated in Marxist ideology to teach in a Republican-controlled state.

And of course, much more than just that could be done — if the right wanted to fight back. The key thing is getting over this idea that we must preserve at all costs an outdated and fundamentally flawed notion of neutrality in our public institutions, that public schools, for example, must be silent about religion and morality even as they indoctrinate students in what amounts to a new religion of leftist political activism, bombarding them with lessons derived from critical race theory and LGBT ideology.

The left obviously doesn’t care about neutrality. Every institution and public space they are able to control is immediately used to push a very non-neutral message and agenda. Conservatives are the only ones who even pretend to care about neutrality anymore. It’s time to change that. Neutrality has always been a luxury good that only a religiously and culturally homogenous society could afford. Once the left weaponized it as part of a campaign to take over institutions, it became folly to adhere to it.

And yet most Republican officeholders still do. They should stop and get serious about getting the Ten Commandments back in public school — in the curriculum, not just posted on the wall.

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John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.