"Every Child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural Being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you teachers to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future." - Taken from an address given at a childhood education seminar in 1973 by professor Chester M. Pierce of educational psychiatry at Harvard University speaking for the Association for Childhood Education International.
"The battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith. ....The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new--the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of Humanism." - "A Religion for a New Age," The Humanist - January/February 1983, p. 26.
Secular Humanism is now the established religion in American public schools.
Secular Humanism is a religion in the same way that Hinduism and Buddhism are religions.
The doctrines of Humanism have been set forth in two Humanist Manifestos.[1] The first tenet of Manifesto I states:
"Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created."
The United States Supreme Court has identified Secular Humanism as a religion. It ruled that the First Amendment grants the same protection and imposes the same limitations on the "religion of Secular Humanism" as are applicable to other religions.[2]
In another Supreme Court decision, Justice Clark stated, "The State may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus 'preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.' "[3]
1. Humanist Manifesto I and II, 1933, 1973.
2. Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 US 488 (1961).
3. Abington School District v. Schempp, 374, US 203, 83 S. Ct. 1560, 10 L.Ed.2d 844 (1963).