Christianity Expunged

From the book, “America’s Date With Destiny”

From the Introduction:

During the past twenty-five years, early American history has been rewritten.  This generation of public school students can go through twelve years of elementary and high school and another four years of college without one lesson featuring the central role of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage in the founding and later history of the nation.

Education secretary William J. Bennett denounced this “assault of secularism on religion”. The survey illustrates how the “liberal bias” of the courts and the publisher’s desire to “skirt controversy” have created a generation of school textbooks that fail to mention God, let alone give any “serious positive treatment to conservative views.”  And the religious faith and biblical heritage of our forefathers have been eliminated from the record almost altogether. 

The study, financed by the United States Department of Education, discovered that in the textbooks your children or grandchildren might be studying at this very moment, the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving Day is often described “without any reference to their thanking God for their survival in the new land.”  And the central role of Christian faith and biblical truth in shaping the charters of our original colonies, the curriculum of our original schools and universities, even the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, has been censored from the historic record. 

World history too, has been scissored by these self-appointed censors.  In today’s muddle-headed textbooks, Joan of Arc, for example, is discussed without any mention of her faith in God, her religious commitment, or her elevation to sainthood by the Catholic Church. How could modern “historians” forget the heroic contributions to the exploration and settling of the world by Christian missionaries, ministers, priests, and laity over the past two thousand years?  How do publishers dare to censor from the record the courageous self-sacrificing efforts of those early missionaries to plant churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages, clinics, and every kind of spiritual and social service throughout the world? Lies, half-truths, and silence have replaced the facts about religious faith and its importance to the history of our nations and our world, yet understanding the facts of history is the only way we can wisely chart the nation’s future.  

Pat Robertson, Thomas Nelson Inc., 1986 – 35 years ago!!!!