March 15, 2010
In the days of the Soviet Union, children in schools learned that Russians invented the airplane and the refrigerator. They learned there was no God and that the glorious days of the union began and ended with Marxism. History texts were rewritten to eliminate any mention of Holy Mother Russia, the Orthodox Church, the Czars or Peter the Great. The new understanding of the world included "equality," "fairness" with no differences in gender.
Women worked the same as men. Children were raised in government day care and educated by the state. Loyalty to the Communist Party was demanded above family. Children were encouraged to report parents, neighbor to spy on neighbor, and evolution the foundation for it all. Schools taught that through Darwinian evolution we evolved randomly so therefore there was no God but central government. All music and performance praised it … clothing symbolized it. The Soviet world was monolithic, monochromatic and atheistic—and propaganda filled public school textbooks from the censoring of history to the eradication of the acknowledgement of God to the unwavering embrace of evolution. For 50 years it was so. Dissenters were sent to the Gulag or to reeducation camps. They were declared "mentally ill," shunned and punished severely.
What children are taught in public school matters. Whole societies have been altered by indoctrinating them. And that's why a battle has been fought for decades on what should be included in American school texts. In the '90s a bill proposed in the Illinois legislature called simply "The American Heritage Act" declared that references to God in historical documents should not be censored. It failed. And so, without the knowledge of most parents, any mention of God by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, the Mayflower Compact, the Supreme Court, were censored in school textbooks profoundly altering our national story and building into our children a secularism the Founding Fathers never intended.
And it didn't just happen in social studies curricula. Rather than majoring on the disciplines of biology or chemistry, science textbooks morphed into treatises for the environmental movement. Since the '70s, American students have been deluged with politically correct concerns over population control, the rain forest and the ozone layer. So, after a history of being taught the theory of evolution as fact, students are now besieged by so-called evidence of man made global warming. While countless students have been exposed to Al Gore's now-discredited "Inconvenient Truth" documentary, few have been allowed to see "Expelled," challenging the suppression of free intellectual discussion on scientific theories of origin. And don't expect the indoctrination of our kids to end any time soon. The New York Times just reported that "Under President Obama … the Climate Education Interagency Working Group … is making a strong push toward ‘climate literacy' for teachers and students."
In the article "Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets," the New York Times warns against conservatives and white evangelicals who dare to disbelieve the man-made global warming theory. The article lambasts states introducing legislation to promote "critical thinking" on evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning." That same article refers to scientists who embrace intelligent design as "deniers of evolution." The author states emphatically "for mainstream scientists, there is no credible challenge to evolutionary theory," and then adds, "There is wide agreement among scientists that global warming is occurring and that human activities are probably driving it." Really?
Recently leaked e-mails exchanged by scientists at the very heart of current global warming theory in East Anglia, England, show the manipulation of data and the hiding of other evidence counter to man-made global warming. Add to that new information debunking the reports of glaciers melting and the increasingly vocal criticism of scientists worldwide over the embarrassment the man-made global warming movement has been to the scientific community. These reports are becoming common knowledge, hardly just embraced by conservatives or white evangelicals.
