This was posted on Facebook by a friend in my Parish, Joshua Johnson. He is a member of the editorial staff of the American Watchmen.
The 'Separation of Church and State' is a strawman. As he points out in the post, 'The reality is that each and every government all throughout history has required some animating idea, treated almost as religious dogma, which justifies their existence and authority.' This has always been true. In the Soviet Union, the established 'religion' was Marxism, with Lenin and Stalin as its prophets and interpreters. In the United States, prior to the 1960s, the animating religion was a non-denominational Protestantism. Since the 1960s, and more intensely every year, the United States have become an atheistic, secular humanist society.
Joshua's post ties right in to the video I posted back in February, Chevalier Charles Coulombe on the 'Separation of Church and State'.
The 'Separation of Church and State' is a strawman. As he points out in the post, 'The reality is that each and every government all throughout history has required some animating idea, treated almost as religious dogma, which justifies their existence and authority.' This has always been true. In the Soviet Union, the established 'religion' was Marxism, with Lenin and Stalin as its prophets and interpreters. In the United States, prior to the 1960s, the animating religion was a non-denominational Protestantism. Since the 1960s, and more intensely every year, the United States have become an atheistic, secular humanist society.
Joshua's post ties right in to the video I posted back in February, Chevalier Charles Coulombe on the 'Separation of Church and State'.
By Joshua Johnson
In Illinois the State Senate has passed a bill requiring all public schools to include LGBT history as part of their curriculum. In addition to this, the bill stipulates that parents cannot take their children out of the course either.
A few thoughts:
1- Was this not the same reason we allegedly took religion out of public schools? In order to allegedly prevent indoctrination? The fact is that the mantra of Separation of Church and State is, has, and always will be a lie. The notion of separating religion from governing is a myth, it doesn't exist. The reality is that each and every government all throughout history has required some animating idea, treated almost as religious dogma, which justifies their existence and authority.
Ours today is simply secular humanism and we see its fruits everywhere.
2- Second, if we're going to teach the history of this particular sexual activity, why not start teaching BDSM? After all there have been many historic figures who strongly identified and engaged in that sexual practice, why is that not taught?
Where does one draw the line?
3- We often like to draw a line in the sand and declare that the state has no business in the bedroom of two consenting adults, yet apparently the same people who champion this credo are A-Okay with the government bringing the bedroom into the classroom against the wishes of parents.
If parents don't have the freedom to determine what their child is shown at school, then what freedoms do they have as parents? Are their children even really their own anymore or rather the property of the State? Indeed, why is this even a mandatory class in the first place? It is not an essential life skill and does nothing to enhance the student's intellectual life.
Could it be because the Secular State is proselytizing?
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments are subject to deletion if they are not germane. I have no problem with a bit of colourful language, but blasphemy or depraved profanity will not be allowed. Attacks on the Catholic Faith will not be tolerated. Comments will be deleted that are republican (Yanks! Note the lower case 'r'!), attacks on the legitimacy of Pope Francis as the Vicar of Christ (I know he's a material heretic and a Protector of Perverts, and I definitely want him gone yesterday! However, he is Pope, and I pray for him every day.), the legitimacy of the House of Windsor or of the claims of the Elder Line of the House of France, or attacks on the legitimacy of any of the currently ruling Houses of Europe.