During this time I have experienced peaks and valleys of great hope and despair.
I have experienced hope in the resilience and courage of youth to stand boldly against injustice, and despair when I see their boldness being co-opted by a system of thinking designed to destroy and replace the moral fabric of our American Republic.
Mark Twain put to words an observation that I have long witnessed in the youth culture. “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
The United States public educational trend has become, “If God says it, you must reject it!” Our youth are being taught “what just ain’t so” and tyranny appears to increase at the exact pace that Christianity has de-creased in our education systems.
Piece by piece, Christian beliefs have been removed — along with the memory of those beliefs — from the minds of the people by successful compulsory public education. This process was begun in the 1840s by men like Robert Owe ...
