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The fruit of secular humanism in the public schools
La Salette Journey ^ | December 30, 2014 | Paul Melanson

Posted on 12/30/2014 11:19:12 AM PST by cleghornboy

As reported by NBC Chicago, "When a 13-year-old Chicago boy wrote a letter to Santa asking simply for 'safety' this Christmas, he didn’t expect to get a response from the president of the United States.

Malik Bryant, who lives in a high-crime neighborhood on the South Side called Englewood, didn’t ask for your typical Christmas toys when he participated in a charitable Letters to Santa program in the city.

“All I ask for is for safety. I just want to be safe,” his letter read, according to Direct Effect Charities' website."

What is this but the fruit of secular humanism?

(Excerpt) Read more at lasalettejourney.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Government; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: fruit; publicschools; secularhumanism

1 posted on 12/30/2014 11:19:12 AM PST by cleghornboy
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To: cleghornboy

Yeah Barack just picked letter out of millions and his reply will be to remove guns from the citizens to make them safe. Watch and see if I’m wrong ...


2 posted on 12/30/2014 11:22:39 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Yeah Barack just his picked letter out of millions and his reply will be to remove guns from the citizens to make them safe. Watch and see if I’m wrong ...


3 posted on 12/30/2014 11:23:34 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: cleghornboy

And “safety” in our cities is about to plummet, with the police being unable to fight crime without worrying about being made into the next Darren Wilson or worse.


4 posted on 12/30/2014 11:30:11 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: jsanders2001

Just like all the computer hacking news is preparation to take control the internet. These simpletons are so transparent it almost makes me want to LOL, if it weren’t for the extreme danger of it all.


5 posted on 12/30/2014 11:30:26 AM PST by Scooter100
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To: cleghornboy

What was the reply? Something like, Thank you for your support against the evil Right wingers that caused all this! Please enclose a donation to help us fight evil injustice in America!”?


6 posted on 12/30/2014 11:31:41 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (1`)
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To: cleghornboy

>>What is this but the fruit of secular humanism?

How safe were the non-secular state-establishments of Babylon, Egypt, and Orthodox Russia?

“There is no god but the Tzar”

What does this mean?


7 posted on 12/30/2014 11:37:16 AM PST by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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To: cleghornboy

It is already bad enough that he claims to be our savior.

8 posted on 12/30/2014 11:38:44 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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“Yeah Barack just picked letter out of millions and his reply will be to remove guns from the citizens to make them safe. Watch and see if I’m wrong ...”

Kid is living in Chicongo. Democrats outlawed guns in Chicongo long ago.

Therefore, Bammy is just blabbering for his base.


9 posted on 12/30/2014 11:39:29 AM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: cleghornboy
Anyone who speaks out against the Dept. of Education and all of the other multitudinous bureaucracies that control the propagandizing of children today in the name of "educating" them must be willing to be marginalized by the media and politicians.

Even as early as the Year 1886, such was the case. A man by the name of Zacharias Montgomery was denied an important post in government for doing just that. You will read some of his words below.

With that said, those who love liberty must be willing to come forward to declare that it is better to be remembered for standing on and articulating enduring principles of right versus wrong, liberty versus tyranny, than to be praised by the mainstream media and so-called "progressives."

I am reminded of the words of Zacharias Montgomery in his 1886 Book entitled "Poison Drops in the United States Senate . . . ." Although his treatise dealt primarily with the public school question, the following remarks might be helpful to those who, today, are concerned by what passes for "public education."

Excerpts from Zacharias Montgomery:

"My countrymen, disguise the fact as we may, there is in this country to-day, and in both the political Parties, an element which is ripe for a centralized despotism. There are men and corporations of vast wealth, whose iron grasp spans this whole continent, and who find it more difficult and more expensive to corrupt thirty odd State Legislatures than one Federal Congress. It was said of Nero of old that he wished the Roman people had but one head, so that he might cut it off at a single blow. And so it is with those moneyed kings who would rule this country through bribery, fraud, and intimidation.

"It is easy to see how, with all the powers of government centered at Washington in one Federal head, they could at a single stroke put an end to American liberty.

"But they well understand that before striking this blow the minds of the people must be prepared to receive it. And what surer or safer preparation could possibly be made than is now being made, by indoctrinating the minds of the rising generation with the idea that ours is already a consolidated government ; that the States of the Union have no sovereignty which is not subordinate to the will and pleasure of the Federal head, and that our Constitution is the mere creature of custom, and may therefore be legally altered or abolished by custom.

"Such are a few of the pernicious and poisonous doctrines which ten millions of American children are today drinking in with the very definitions of the words they are compelled to study. And yet the man who dares to utter a word of warning of the approaching danger is stigmatized as an enemy to education and unfit to be men tioned as a candidate for the humblest office.

"Be it so. Viewing this great question as I do, not for all the offices in the gift of the American people would I shrink from an open and candid avowal of my sentiments. If I have learned anything from the reading of history, it is that the man who, in violation of great principles, toils for temporary fame, purchases for himself either total oblivion or eternal infamy, while he who temporarily goes down battling for right principles always deserves, and generally secures, the gratitude of succeeding ages, and will carry with him the sustaining solace of a clean conscience, more precious than all the offices and honors in the gift of man.

"History tells us that Aristides was voted into banishment because he was just. Yet who would not a thousand times rather today be Aristides than be numbered amongst the proudest of his persecutors.

"Socrates, too, in violation of every principle of justice, was con demned to a dungeon and to death. Yet what name is more honored in history than his? And which of his unjust judges would not gladly, hide himself in the utter darkness of oblivion from the with ering scorn and contempt of all mankind ?

"From the noble example of Aristides and of Socrates let American statesmen learn wisdom, and from the undying infamy of their cow ardly time-serving persecutors let political demagogues of today take warning."

So Zacharias Montgomery in 1886. Read his complete work at HERE.

Anyone who reads his complete volume will realize this man's ability to see the consequences of what his fellow Americans were advocating in the area of education of youth.

11 posted on 12/30/2014 12:23:15 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: cleghornboy

Secular humanism is a contradiction in terms.

“In the modern world, the task of the humanist is to remind man of his spiritual reality.” — Russell Kirk, paraphrasing Irving Babbitt.


12 posted on 12/30/2014 2:36:57 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Scooter100

> Just like all the computer hacking news is preparation to take control the internet. These simpletons are so transparent it almost makes me want to LOL, if it weren’t for the extreme danger of it all.

One of the things I’ve doing for my friends lately is fixing their computers which were hacked. It seems a lot more computers are getting hacked in the last few weeks. Many of them fell for the “You need to upgrade your Chrome browser” or “you need to upgrade Adobe flash player” pop ups and downloaded some malware and viruses. This isn’t really that new but the hackers are getting a little more creative. Instead of the malware just embedding itself into extensions or add-ins / BHOs that a lot of people have learned to remove, now they are upping their game and releasing infected copies of Google Chrome that people are downloading that are making pople unable to use thir computers. So just a word of warning, don’t click yes to any update or get redirected to a website that tells you to install, update, or patch your browsers or flashplayer period.


13 posted on 12/30/2014 4:45:50 PM PST by jsanders2001
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