Get Busy...

We went to the Homeschooling convention this weekend. And, we learned a lot.

Mostly, we learned we had to stay on our toes and keep our eyes open.

Did you know that Dr. Shirley McCune, from the U.S. Department of Education in 1989 said, "What we're into is the total transformation of society...What it means for education is that we no longer see the teaching of facts and information as the primary outcome of education."

Facts and information are not the primary outcome of education?? What?? Guess what the outcome in education is...unity, and a one world government.

We saw the evidence through the major texts used in public schools today and, guess what, these same books are being used by thousands of Christian school students in the country, as well, because they are free!

Did you know that well over 60% of students (I think they were 9th graders and I think it was 85%) in the U.S. thought "From each according to their ablility, to each according to their need" was in the U.S. Constitution?

And, for all of you who thought the Revolutionary War was over "taxation without representation", read on, or just read the Declaration of Independence. History is taught with a bias and an agenda. So, get busy and learn history and teach it to others!

The following is from wallbuilders.com

It is a great site for learning about the true history of the United States. They buy and study original documents from the founding fathers.

This is from their site:


An obvious example of the secularization of history occurs each year around the Fourth of July. Americans are taught that “taxation without representation” was the reason America separated from Great Britain; yet “taxation without representation” was only reason number seventeen out of the twenty-seven reasons given in the Declaration of Independence - it was not even in the top half, yet it's all that most ever hear. Never mentioned today are the numerous grievances condemning judicial activism - or those addressing moral or religious or other issues.

What religious issues? In 1762, the king vetoed the charter for America's first missionary society; he also suppressed other religious freedoms and even prevented Americans from printing an English language Bible. How did Americans respond? They took action; and almost unknown today is the fact that Declaration signers such as Samuel Adams and Charles Carroll cited religious freedom as the reason they became involved in the American Revolution. And significantly, even though Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin (two of the least religious signers) are typically the only signers studied today, almost half of the signers of the Declaration (24 of 56) held what today would be considered seminary or Bible school degrees. Clearly, for many Founders, religious issues were an important motivation behind their separation from Great Britain; but that motivation is largely ignored today.

Moral issues are accorded the same silence. The greatest moral issue of that day was slavery; and after several of the American colonies moved toward abolishing slavery in 1773, the King, in 1774, vetoed those anti-slavery laws and continued slavery in America. Soon-to-be signers ofthe Declaration Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush promptly founded America's first abolition society as a direct response against the king's order. The desire to end slavery in America was a significant motivation not only for Franklin and Rush but also for a number of others; but the end of slavery in America could be achieved only if they separated from Great Britain - which they were willing to do (and six of the thirteen colonies began abolishing slavery following the separation).

There were many other significant issues that led to our original Fourth of July; so why aren't Americans familiar with the rest? Because in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, a group of secular-minded writers (including Charles and Mary Beard, W. E. Woodward, Fairfax Downey, and others) began penning works on American history that introduced a new paradigm. For this group, economics was the only issue of importance, so they began to write texts accordingly (their approach is now described as “the economic view of American history” and since the 1960s has been widely embraced throughout the education community). Consequently, since “taxation without representation” was the economic grievance in the Declaration, it became the sole clause that Americans studied.

More to come on this, but first I have to go and study history!