What Happened in School Today?

by Al Benson Jr. Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America The late theologian, R. J. Rushdoony, was very concerned over the issue of education in this country and what the real reasons for that education were. Years ago he made the statement: "Statist educators want to create a people who will be Creatures of the State and its Schools, not creatures of God;  that's the goal. You see it's a religious conflict and it's a religious goal with these people. You can never fully grasp their objective until you see the religious aspect of it....Education is fundamentally and essentially religious...If you want to know what the religion of the people of the culture is, examine their education." If Rev. Rushdoony's  statement is accurate, and I have no reason to think it is not, then the question arises--what is our real religion in this country at this point in history? Does the way we educate our children determine what we really believe, re...

by Al Benson Jr. Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America Forty five years ago this year an event occurred in Kanawha County, West Virginia that seems to have had more far-reaching ramifications  than many of us who became involved in it could have imagined at that time. All I can say is thank the Lord for those who possess a historical perspective that far outdistances mine. Back in 2004, on the 30th anniversary of this event, I wrote an article called The Thirty Years War which was posted on a website that has long since become extinct. This dealt with the Kanawha County, West Virginia Textbook Protest (war). Actually, I guess the term "war"  would be more appropriate, as the politically correct cultural Marxists of that day had declared war on the mostly Christian culture of West Virginia and upon that culture's children, via the government schools. Their weapon of choice was the textbooks for Kanawha County's government (public) schools. ...

How many people who have their kids in public schools in this country really have a clue as to what goes on in those schools? Sadly, not nearly enough. If more people understood what happens with public education in America and also understood that they have many other options besides public schools then some things might change. There are many parents that just don't give a hoot what the schools do to their kids as long as the kids are not at home and underfoot. What I write on this blog will not be for them. Their apathy has  (unless they somehow wake up) already guaranteed  that their kids will end up being just more cogs in the socialist system this country is fast degenerating into. I have been collecting info on what goes on in public schools for over four decades now. I have fat file folders of this material--more than I could ever use in the years the Lord has probably left for me on this mortal coil,  but, by His grace, I will attempt to use some of it on t...