Public Schools Without God

 

By Dale V. Nobbman

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American public schools today are not the same as in my youth, primarily due to the fact our own government, school boards, school administrators, and many teachers have gradually made every attempt possible to eliminate God from our schools over the past fifty plus years. May God bless those school teachers, officials and staff who do not check their Christian faith at the public school doors in America here in the 21^st century.

 

It’s a very disappointing trend how our government, many of our school officials and teachers have so easily allowed themselves to be deceived by Satan—in helping to remove everything possible regarding God and Christianity—from our public schools. It pleases Satan to prevent godly and Christian principles from ever reaching our public school students. Satan knows if he can do two things, control the minds of our top governmental leaders and at the same time control the education of our children, then he can dismantle and destroy a predominantly Christian nation with greater ease.

 

Today it is so very obvious, virtually everywhere you look, how our American culture and society is paying a regretfully high price for the purposeful neglect of Christian principles from being included in our public schools. It’s sad to say this is being done by the very people we entrust with educating our youth at all age levels in schools across our country.

 

American schools had a godly heritage for nearly two centuries until the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962 ruled that school prayer was unconstitutional, because the Engel vs. Vitale court case that year redefined the word “church” as meaning ‘a religious activity in public’ for the first time in America’s history, and not just a “federally established denomination” as it had always previously been defined.

 

School prayer was the first casualty of the redefinition of the First Amendment, but in 1963 two additional Supreme Court cases ruled that Bible reading, religious classes, and religious instruction in public schools were unconstitutional. All this at a time in the early 1960’s when 97 percent of Americans still stated a belief in God, and only 3 percent professed no belief in religion or God.

 

It seems that only Satan could twist and deceive the minds of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices at that time in the early 1960’s to rewrite the First Amendment of the Constitution in favor of only 3 percent of the American population. It’s not hard to see, by studying our national statistics, that our nation’s morality has been on a steady slide since that time.

 

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. —President George Washington

 

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” —President John Adams

 

“Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals. Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God” (1 Corinthians 15:33-34).

 

It is a sorry state of educational affairs today, that a large percentage of our public school students have no knowledge of God, and the resulting morality decline in our culture and society is the direct fault of all the adults in responsible positions of educating our youth.

 

During my years in the public school system, my generation of students recited the Pledge of Allegiance, with “under God” included, each day before classes began, and doing so seemed as natural to us as studying our lessons and any other daily school activities.

 

In elementary school our music period would find the smaller kids climbing onto the laps of the bigger kids at their desks and selecting songs to sing from our old yellow soft cover music books. We would sing not only fun secular songs, but also gospel songs, religious Christmas songs, and even some old Christian hymns once in awhile. Those spontaneous songfests provided learning and laughter, and enough good memories to last until today.

 

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