Sorry to tell you, I didn’t need a program to make me ignorant. I was born that way, but through hard work and the blessing of the Most High, I became smarter than a third grader! While this is a joke, in today's public education system, a third-grade education may get most students through graduation from twelfth grade.
Look at it this way. In a time of abundant information, one might expect education to foster critical thinking and moral clarity. Instead, many children face "programmed ignorance", a deliberate strategy to produce compliant citizens who value conformity over liberty. This echoes Biblical warnings: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6). By sidelining the Bible's role in true wisdom, modern systems engineers ignore the need to guide future generations, in contrast to Scripture's call for knowledge rooted in reverence for God.
America has a historical bedrock built by our Founding Fathers and Biblical education, and that is the problem some people have.
America's founders knew liberty depends on an educated populace grounded in moral and spiritual truth. Thomas Jefferson called the Bible the "cornerstone of liberty" and said it "makes the best people in the world." He insisted, "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." James Madison added, "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
Noah Webster declared, "Education is useless without the Bible… God's Word… has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct." Early American schools centered on Scripture for reading, morality, and civics. Benjamin Rush advocated Bible-based instruction to cultivate virtue, and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 required the encouragement of "religion, morality, and knowledge" in education.
These leaders embraced Proverbs 1:7: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." Without this foundation, education manipulates rather than liberates, as seen in regimes like China and North Korea, where state curricula enforce atheism and totalitarianism under false banners of "democracy."
Scripture values knowledge as a divine gift for righteous living—Proverbs 8:10 urges choosing instruction over gold. Biblical education is holistic, with parents commanded in Deuteronomy 6:6-7 to teach God's words diligently. Isaiah 5:13 warns that a lack of knowledge leads to captivity.
True Biblical learning builds character—virtue, integrity, love—which are vital for a free society. It demands the pursuit of truth (Proverbs 2:3-5) and views faith as the lens through which to interpret all reality. This opposes programmed ignorance, which breeds dependency on human authority.
Bible values are under an assault from pre-school to post-graduate, and education has been weaponized! Today, public education often erodes traditional values while excluding religious perspectives. The 1962 Engel v. Vitale decision banning school prayer created a secular vacuum filled by ideologies critics call indoctrination. Curricula suppress dissent, downplay America's Christian heritage, and present evolution or gender identity without balanced moral debate.
This selective teaching prioritizes conformity, mirroring historical efforts to enforce obedience. As virtuous citizens need less government, those seeking power benefit from moral relativism. Recent critiques highlight "radical indoctrination" in schools, blocking parental input and fostering division. Excluding faith, some argue, marginalizes believers and allows biases to spread unchecked.
The result: a generation mistaking license for liberty, technologically advanced yet ethically adrift. Ignorance enables abuses of power, as Jefferson noted regarding corrupt clergy or politicians. Globally, authoritarian education produces compliant masses; America risks following suit.
Final Word: Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." It's up to the parents to ensure the child's training is from the Bible.
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The United States of America is a Christian nation. Period. Throw out any non-believers or take away the civil rights of all corrupt individuals without morals and ethics.
How do you do that and remain a nation respecting our laws?
You say "Throw out any non-believers or take away the civil rights of all corrupt individuals without morals and ethics".Who decides who is a believer and who is not? Which Christian denamination do we keep? There are many who say they are Christians....others say no they aren't, like Seventh Day Adventist, Mormons, new age maga churches, etc. Do we get rid of the Jews, Buddhist, Jains, Hindus, Sikhs, Shintos, etc?
I can see getting Muslims out by sowing, proving it is a political ideology....not a religion, and in conflict with our constitutional laws! There's more and more people leaning that way, in fact some go as far as to say the entire thing is a lie because Mohamed never existed, he has no history, the name never mentioned back in the time when he supposedly lived, in fact there's no mention of him anywhere in history until 2-3-400 years later. Mecca didn't exist in the time when they claim Mohamed lived, it's on no maps while tiny towns are on ancient maps in the area. No one who were supposed to know him ever mentioned him, never wrote about him!
On the other hand, Jesus is all over in history, we know of his birth, his childhood and his deeds as an adult. Those who were with him during his life talk about his life, written about him, then also those who heard from those who were with Jesus, eye witnesses. The Romans have records of him. So it isn't that there were no written records about anyone back then, just that there are no written records of Mohamed..........because he never was!
I would take this rout, I would go after Islam as a fake religion not computable.......and deport them all. No more mosques!
How? We do that by returning to the Law of Nature and Nature's God, as directed by our Declaration of Independence. What we are living through now is the direct result from abandoning the moral foundation of Natural Law, which, in essence, is what Lincoln and James Wilson (signer of our documents) knew with their hearts, minds and spirits. It means there is a Higher Law, that binds all persons to that higher standard. It was based on Lex non-Scripta, or the Law not written, meaning, written in our hearts. In part or whole, it is from Romans 2:14.
Lincoln expressed it as this: What is right, is right for all time, all situations, and also the public conscience. A public moral conscience.
That is what Benjamin Franklin was referring to when asked what the Convention had given us: "A Republic, Maam, if you can keep it.'
James Wilson expressed it as: Law can be reasonable and Justice can be known. A Republic REQUIRES a moral virtuous character of the people. Denying moral qualities, as our SCOTUS does now, is the enemy of self-government. Wilson assisted in the Preamble and believed, rightly, that only God is owed complete and absolute obedience. God is Justice, Goodness. Wilson taught natural law as familiarized with Thomas Aquinas. Wilson lectured and wrote a series of lectures on our Constitution, published as 'Lectures in Law.' It demands the "moral sense' to natural law, domestic law, corporate law, common law, criminal law and theories of evidence.
Lincoln made things simple. He wrote, "If it is right for a lighter-colored man to own a darker-colored man, then the next lightest man shall own rightly, the less whilte man. So, the essence is: What is right is always right, in all situations, for all times and for all people.
Our courts, however, have heard in the past, cases on Blacks being allowed into swimming pools and separate cases about Blacks being allowed into restaurants. Silly and worse, stupid. It either is or it isn't—right for all times.
Later debates have concerned the challenges in our time, as, Scalia and Alito debated the violence in video games is acceptable to 'free speech." The moral answer is that it is not acceptable.Scalia wrote that free speech included video games. Alito stated, it is not the same thing when watched, as opposed to read.
Law that separates morality from law is known as Legal Postivism. Or in Jea9Speak, bullsh*t. The idea is that even a child knows what is right and wrong for their puppy. All ages, races, but not all "religions." it just IS, that the Bible is, and was, the foundation of our Laws and Justice. Everything else is a slow walk to tyranny.
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"The great Blackstone had famously said that, on entering civil society, we give up those unqualified rights we had in the State of Nature, including the liberty of "doing mischief." To which James Wilson asked, in a Talmudic question, "Is it part of natural liberty to do mischief to anyone?" In other words, as Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Aquinas had it, we never had a "right to do a wrong." Even in the state of nature we did not have a right to murder or rape, and therefore as we entered civil society, the laws that barred people from murdering and raping never barred them from anything they ever had a rightful liberty to do.
And so, what rights did we give up on entering civil society? The answer given by Wilson and Alexander Hamilton was: none. As Hamilton said in Federalist 84, "Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing." Hence there was something not quite right in the notion of a Bill of Rights reserving to people rights they hadn't surrendered to the state, for that implied that they had indeed surrendered the body of their rights to the state and that they were holding back now a few they hadn't surrendered." JWI
https://www.jameswilsoninstitute.org/a-natural-law-manifesto
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Ilona, Jesus was Jewish and preached to the Jews of his time, who rejected him. The gentiles accepted his teachings and followed him. So, you tell me what to do with people who reject Jesus outright and even forcefully.
You are right that there are many Christian religions out there, all of them following the "truth" of the Bible. Some of these Christian churches are even gay and trans friendly. We obviously need a federal agency that determines what an acceptable Christian religion is.
Wow! America has never had an inquisition before. However, that is one way of ridding the US of Democrats!
GREAT IDEA!!
Hahahahahaha!
About 3-4000 people died during the Spanish Inquisition, we have a lot more democrats in America! Paul might think you are serious!
Steve, that's right. The ultimate goal should be getting rid of the demonrats and the two-party system. We really only need one patriotic party lead by President Donald Trump and his successors.
Of course it is much easier to control ingorant people. Teach someone to think and they might be able to figure out the demockrats are lying and doing nothing to help citizens.
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