SECULAR HUMANISM AND AMERICA'S EDUCATION DISASTER

This is a continuation of my recent blog essay, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR KIDS?

The anti-God cancer of relative moral standards has had a devastating impact on all of life in America as it planted its roots deeply into our schools and education system. In the early 1920s, Dr. John Dewey, professor at Columbia University and a founder of the American Humanist Association, introduced a concept termed "Progressive Education" which spread throughout our nation's public school system. He held that:

"There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes."

So far-reaching was Dewey-ite secular humanism that the noted contemporary theologian Dr. D. James Kennedy summarized the consequences:

"Little wonder that the Dewey-ite secular humanists who have led education in this country for the past 50 years have helped to produce a veritable slime pit of immorality, drug addiction, sexual perversion, permissiveness, and diseases of every sort...effects that, according to the eminent educator, Professor Jacques Barzun, have resulted in turning the once proud and efficient public school system of the United States 'into a wasteland where violence and vice share the times with ignorance and idleness."

Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto, wrote: "My objective in life is to dethrone God...".

The youth of America are a sacred trust to us from God. They are America's future. What have the churches been doing during this protracted assault upon the minds and spirits of America's young people?






Note: most quotes are from the book America - A Call To Greatness.