“George Washington: Who is that?” EduKshun Item

Source: NewsByUs (not news bias)

by Chuck Baldwin

A recent USA Today report confirmed what most of us already knew: America has lost touch with its history. The story ran on February 26, 2008 and begins by saying, “Big Brother. McCarthyism. The patience of Job.” [links below---WfI]

“Don’t count on your typical teenager to nod knowingly the next time you drop a reference to any of these. A study out today finds that about half of 17-year-olds can’t identify the books or historical events associated with them.

“Twenty-five years after the federal report A Nation At Risk challenged U.S. public schools to raise the quality of education, the study finds high schoolers still lack important historical and cultural underpinnings of ‘a complete education.’”

This report only touches the tip of the iceberg. The fact is, the current generation of Americans is more “historically challenged” than any previous generation. The public education system has all but eradicated a healthy knowledge and respect for American history. I believe the indifference of public education to our great history is deliberate and intentional.

Not only is true American history not being taught, what is being taught is mostly a distortion of our history. For example, virtually every child in America can quickly identify Martin Luther King, Jr., as the father of the civil rights movement, but many, if not most, cannot identify George Washington as the Father of Our Country. Fewer still know that James Madison was The Father of the U.S. Constitution or that Sam Adams was the Father of the American Revolution. School children are indoctrinated in political-correctness, but are taught nothing of the fundamental principles of liberty upon which America was founded.

By contrast, when I attended a public elementary school back in the 1960s, I well remember reading copious volumes on America’s Founding Fathers. In fact, I recall that our required reading included documents such as Washington’s Farewell Address. On the whole, however, today’s public school children do not even recognize names such as Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, or Alexander Hamilton.

Beyond that, about the only references that are given about America’s founders are insults, criticisms, and downright slander. Our Founding Fathers are referred to as racists, homophobes, extremists, etc. Even the faith of America’s founders is mostly impugned in modern public education. Their deep reverence for God and the Bible is either totally ignored or, just as often, ridiculed. Hardly ever will a child learn that our nation’s founders were mostly (by a vast margin) Christians. If there is any reference at all to their faith, they are simply called “Deists,” (a belief-system which can be honestly applied to only a couple of founders).

Without an understanding of our Christian history and heritage, however, people cannot possibly comprehend the principles that galvanized Colonial America and glued this republic together. Without at least a rudimentary understanding of Natural Law, one cannot possibly comprehend–much less appreciate–America’s Declaration of Independence, our war for independence, or the Bill of Rights.

Is it any wonder, then, that our country seems to lack both a rudder and a compass? Is it any wonder that multiculturalism is in the process of tearing our country apart? If things continue as they are currently going, these United States of America will soon become a regionalized, hemispheric, borderless state, without distinction or recognition. A nation without a history is a nation without a future.

In the meantime, it is not surprising that so many American families are completely bypassing the public education system and choosing to homeschool their children. Others are sending their children to private, Christian, or parochial schools, because public schools have become little more than massively-expensive incubators of violence, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, and anti-America propaganda. And that goes for many of our institutions of higher learning as well.

Add to a public education system that already reeks of failure the unbelievable situation in California, where the promotion of homosexuality is part of the curriculum and where homeschool parents are being threatened with criminal prosecution. It is perfectly understandable why an organized effort is underway in The Golden State called California Exodus 2008, which encourages and assists parents in removing their children from the public schools.

See the Exodus Mandate website at
http://www.exodusmandate.org/

This is also the reason why my staff and I worked so hard to put together The Freedom Documents, a compilation of 50 of our country’s great historical documents in one volume, under one title. The next printing of The Freedom Documents will be in June, 2008, but we do have a special early printing of some 30 copies of The Freedom Documents currently on hand, which may be purchased now. Or, readers may also reserve their copies of The Freedom Documents for the June printing now.

To order or reserve Freedom Documents, go here:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/products.html

If we do not have a serious and concerted effort to restore knowledge and respect for America’s history quickly, this once-great land of liberty will not long survive. I applaud the efforts of many who are desperately trying to resurrect a hunger and thirst for American history. Unfortunately, in order to succeed at our task, we are competing against a heavily financed (by our own tax dollars) public education monstrosity that seeks to bury our history in the graveyard of irrelevance. We must not let that happen.

If you still have children at home, make reading and studying American history a high priority. Beyond that, prayerfully consider moving your children out of the public school system. Most communities have networks of homeschooling parents that can answer questions regarding the homeschool alternative. And, of course, most communities have a few–or in some cases many–private and/or Christian schools nearby.

If we rely on the public school system, the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, or even most churches to help teach America’s great history and heritage to our children, they will not learn it. And what they do learn will be nothing short of anti-America propaganda.

If our children are going to learn American history, they are going to learn it from their parents and grandparents.

So, Mom and Dad, what are you waiting for? Get busy!

(c) Chuck Baldwin

This column is archived at http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20080318.html

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Links open in new windows—enjoy!

WfI

Big Brother

McCarthyism

Patience of Job (page down)

The Prisoners and the Bomb (Hiroshima-Nagasaki and POWs)

Excerpted from writings of a British Prisoner of War in Japan before the bombing of Hiroshima. This post is in honor of those who defend our lives and liberties. Thank you for a good life in the USA.

It is also to call down those who condone JWright’s denigration of the USA, while wallowing around in filthy hatred of the country that allows us to be as we choose.

Wonder how you would feel about giving up liberty if our troops get fed up and stop protecting? Keep filling your mind with garbage and you’re sure to find out.

Do you bite the hand that pampers and supports your freedom?  

Please click on the link to read the entire page.

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By Laurens van der Post
TheAmericanEnterprise

. . .”I began by trying to describe to the Japanese doctor what life had been like in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, because he confessed that even after all this time he personally had taken no interest in the matter and had read no literature about it. I tried to keep my description as factual as possible, and to keep my own emotions out of it. I barely mentioned the physical brutalities we had experienced at the hands of our Japanese guards. I skimmed over the grimmest of my own experiences. For instance, I said little of how I had been made to watch Japanese soldiers having bayonet practice on live prisoners of war tied between bamboo posts; of how I had been taken to witness executions of persons of all races and nationalities for obscure reasons like “showing a spirit of willfulness” or not bowing with sufficient alacrity in the direction of the rising sun. I had never known there could be so many different ways of killing people–cutting off their heads with swords, bayonetting them in many variations, strangling them, burying them alive. But, significantly, never by just shooting them.

I say “significantly” because the omission of this contemporary form of killing was for me striking evidence of the remote and archaic nature of the forces that had invaded the Japanese spirit. Awareness of this dark invasion actually made it impossible for those of us who were prisoners to have personal feelings against our captors. Even at our worst moments of torment, we generally viewed the Japanese as puppets of such immense impersonal forces that they did not really know what they were doing.

It was amazing how often men would confess to me, after some Japanese excess worse than usual, that for the first time in their lives they had realized the truth, and the dynamic liberating power, of the first of the Crucifixion utterances: “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.” I found that the moment one grasped this fundamental fact of our prison situation, forgiveness became not an act of will or of personal virtue, but an automatic and all-compelling consequence of understanding. The tables of the spirit strangely and promptly turned, and we found ourselves without self-pity of any kind, feeling instead deeply sorry for the Japanese, as if we were the free men and they the prisoners–men held in some profound oubliette of their own minds.

Nonetheless, what needed stressing was that by the beginning of 1945 we were all physically dying men. For more than three years [emph WfI] the Japanese had steadily cut down our rations. The daily portion of rice, which was almost our only food, fell in three years from 500 grams per man a day to 90 grams–a fraction over three ounces. There was not a person in my prisoner-of-war camp in 1945 who was not suffering from deficiency disease of some kind. The most feared affliction were the many kinds of malnutrition neuritis, which made men’s nerves burn so much with pain that they could not sleep at night, and in many cases deprived them of their sight or lowered their moral and physical resistance so much that they died of afflictions that in normal conditions would not even have sent them to their beds. Some drawings I possess of scenes in our prison, done months before conditions reached their grimmest, reveal faces and bodies of men who look like the inmates of Belsen.

I myself had no doubt that the Japanese would in time be defeated. But what I could not tell was how they would ever be defeated in such a manner that would relieve them of their overwhelming compulsions of duty, of their sense of historical mission to carry feuds aflame in their blood to final cataclysmic ends in which they and all their enemies would perish.

I knew no nation for whom honor, however perverted, was so great a necessity as Japan. Intimately familiar as I was with Japanese history and literature, I needed no reminders of the destructive forms their individual and collective sense of honor could assume. The one thing I was thoroughly convinced of was that unless the Japanese could be defeated in such a way that they were not deprived of their honor, these was nothing but disaster for them and for us in the end. This, more than immediate starvation or disease, I saw as the real danger that threatened us every minute of our long years of captivity. A slaughter could come either through a breakdown of restraint in an individual Japanese commander and his guards, or through a deliberate choice of the Japanese command to pull down their own sprawling temple, Samson-like, in order to destroy the European Philistines along with themselves, rather than endure ignominious defeat.

I found proof for this worry in the fact that as the war turned increasingly against the Japanese, their treatment of captives became progressively harsher. Our conditions of imprisonment were daily deteriorating in an alarming fashion. And in Java alone there were close to 100,000 of us Europeans impounded in Japanese camps.”. . .

-Sir Laurens van der Post is an award-winning British author. This article is extracted by the editors from his autobiographical wartime reminiscence The Night of the New Moon.

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Remember Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (History Lesson [Hiroshima-Nagasaki] for those who’ve “Forgotten” or “Don’t Know”)

Remember Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 « Notes From A Retired Preacher:

“America was asleep and oblivious to the dangers from those who would destroy our country and her freedoms.

Can it happen to us again from Islamic terrorists?”

See the graphic and horrifying pictures of betrayal on that day.

Graphic Pictures of that Day of Infamy. <Click Here (all links=new windows)

Excerpt:

“On Sunday, December 7th, 1941, I was 12 years old when the Japanese Imperial Military machine launched a dastardly surprise attack against U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  The stated goal of the Japanese??? World domination. The Lord, by His Grace, allowed America to defeat Japan with the consensus and backing of a brave, dedicated and sacrificing American people. . .”

UPDATE:

See Bookworm’s great post on Pearl Harbor:

http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/the-whole-free-world-should-remember-pearl-harbor/#comment-100585

Click here — Find out how to be absolutely sure of Heaven

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Thanks to ExPreacherman, Brother Jack, to have love and concern enough for all that he keeps on persevering for us to be safe, saved by God’s Grace, and live smart. He shares many encouraging and enlightening posts (and he’s more patient than I am)! May God Bless him and his family.

Note: Please don’t leave more links to the YouTube nonsense or any other ungrateful comments. I am ashamed enough of the history revisions and delusions, biblical and otherwise. Those who yell the loudest about ‘freedom’ and ‘tolerance’ seem to understand the least. And, yes, I know how strong the following scriptures are—that’s how God “rolls” (rules). There are no other ‘gods’. WfI

Titus 1:16 

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate [void of judgment].

2Thessalonians 2: 10-12

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

May God Have Mercy.                                  

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