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When they voted to put the Bible back in our curriculum, the State Board of Education took a step towards reinstituting what the founders of this country intended our education system to be. Noah Webster, the author of Webster’s Dictionary, was known as “The schoolmaster of the Nation.” His American Spelling Book, first written in the 1780s, became the most popular book in American education.
He stated, “Education is useless without the Bible.” He also said, “No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
In a book titled “The Naked Communist,” the 28th objective of the Communist plan to destroy America is: “Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of ‘separation of church and state.’” That was never in the U.S. Constitution, but it was in the Soviet Union’s Constitution.
We played right into their hands. With the help of the atheist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the ACLU, and the left-wing liberals on the Supreme Court, Bible reading and prayers in school were ruled unconstitutional although they had been an everyday part of American life for 343 years.
George Washington said, “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
Abraham Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the classroom will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
How true it is!
Billie Gorham, Burkburnett
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