Citizens for Private Property
Rights...
What is your Worldview?
By Joyce
Morrison
October 15, 2005
Following a
week-end attending a Worldview Conference, I came home with my
mind full of the many directions we have taken since we first
became a sovereign nation based on Godly principles.
It is very easy to see the forces coming against our nation,
and many of them are coming from within – and we have given
them our permission.
If other worldviews are to flourish, it is imperative that
the Christian Heritage of our nation be destroyed. I brought
home numerous books and pieces of information, and as I read
through them, it is not difficult to see how Christianity has
been removed from our nation, beginning in the classroom.
I purchased The New-England Primer, which has been
reprinted by David Barton's Wallbuilders organization. It was
the primer used in Boston schools in 1777.
Brilliant drawings and illustrations were used as part of the
teaching of the alphabet:
A. In Adam's Fall; We sinned all
B. Heaven to find; The Bible Mind.
C. Christ crucify'd; For sinners dy'd.
D. The Deluge drown'd; The Earth around.
E. Elijah hid; By Ravens fed.
F. The judgment made; Felix afraid.
In the book, A Lesson for Children, we find:
Pray to God.
Love God.
Fear God.
Take not God's name in vain
Cheat not in your play
Play not with bad boys
Love your School
Speak the Truth
Be not a Dunce
The whole primer is made up of lessons for life, and
"The Assembly of Divines." Their teachings were based
on the Bible.
We expect our children to really know about God and His truth
by sending them to church one or two hours a week, and a big
part of that time is "entertainment." We send them to
schools, funded by citizens' tax dollars, but they are under the
control of the NEA and ACLU. Schools where they are told God
cannot be mentioned, and prayer must be evil, because it is
forbidden.
We then wonder why our nation has been dumbed down, with no
respect for our sovereign God, the Constitution, our Founding
Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, or the Bill of Rights.
We find our history books have been distorted. Much of the
curriculum is long on fiction, and short on truth.
Secular Humanism is a worldview religion with its own
Manifesto. It has had a strong hold on the minds of our youth
for decades. The following comes from A Humanist Manifesto
(1933):
The time has come for widespread recognition of the radical
change in religious beliefs throughout the modern world. The
time is past for mere revision of traditional attitudes.
Science and economic change have disrupted the old beliefs.
Religions, the world over, are under the necessity of coming
to terms with new conditions created by a vastly increased
knowledge and experience. In every field of human activity,
the vital movement is now in the direction of a candid and
explicitly humanism. In order that religious humanism may be
better understood we, the undersigned, desire to make certain
affirmations, which we believe the facts of our contemporary
life demonstrate.
There is great danger of a final, and we believe fatal,
identification of the word religion with doctrines and methods
which have lost their significance, and which are powerless to
solve the problem of humans living in the Twentieth Century.
Although Humanists will deny it is a religion, there can be
no doubt that Secular Humanism is a religion, just
as surely as Christianity. What most don't realize; as
Christianity was being removed from the schools, new religions
were being introduced. Dr. David Noebel, author of many books on
worldviews, reveals in his book, Clergy in the Classroom,
page after page of documentation proving Secular Humanism is a
religion – and by their own admission.
Environmentalism is a religion in the form of creature and
earth worship, above the Creator. We are subjecting our children
to many religions, but the one true religion missing is
Christianity, the foundation of our sovereign United States.
As we wonder why things are happening, and we just can't
understand, we must realize that our churches are benign, in
many areas. There are so few churches preaching the truth and,
therefore, they are certainly no threat to what has invaded our
nation. Many churches are into teaching more secular humanism
than the gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of our youth groups are no
more than peer groups led by well-meaning, but unqualified
leaders.
Kids today have difficulty making moral decisions. Sadly,
statistics show little difference between divorce rates and
other problems in the family among church-goers, from the rest
of the world. This should not be a surprise, as we have
willingly handed over our most valuable investments – our
children – to un-Christian curriculums, computers, and
television for training, and sometimes even a major portion of
their upbringing.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he
is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
Maybe we would see a change in our nation, if we went back to
the New England Primer, and children were taught from
early childhood:
If GOD hath given you increase,
And blessed well your store,
Remember you are put in trust,
And should relieve the poor.
Beware of foul and filthy lust,
Let such things have no place,
Keep clean your vessels in the LORD
That He may you embrace.
Ye are the temples of the LORD
For you are dearly bought
And they that do defile the same
Shall surely come to nought.
Joyce Morrison lives in Southern Illinois. She is a
chapter leader for Concerned Women for America and she and her
husband, Gary, represent the local Citizens for Private Property
Rights. Joyce is Secretary to the Board of Directors of Rural
Restoration/ADOPT Mission, a national farm ministry located in
Sikeston. She has become a nationally-recognized advocate for
property rights.
This article first appeared in the Illinois
Leader, and appeared here with permission.
