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U.S. public education system seeking to replace Christianity with humanism in schools, says expert
Christianity is eroding in America and the nation's public education system is largely to blame, according to the co-author of the book "Crimes of the Educators."
In a recent WND interview, Alex Newman charged that the education establishment in America is "systematically destroying children's belief in biblical religion, in Christianity."
Newman noted a recent Pew Research Center report showing that while 78 percent of Americans identified themselves as Christian in 2007, only 71 percent did so in 2014. He said this is an indication that Christianity in America is declining—slowly but surely.
The Pew report also showed that today's younger generations are successively less Christian than those before them. Only 56 percent of younger Millennials consider themselves as Christians while 85 percent of the older generation regard themselves as Christian.Newman said it is incorrect to think that American public schools are secular or impartial towards various religions. Actually, the international journalist and educator said public schools in the U.S. are trying to force a religion on children, but it's not Christianity; rather, it is humanism.
Newman said the Humanist Manifesto could best explain what this religion of humanism is all about. It reads: "Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created."The manifesto rejects most Christian beliefs as it calls for a "socialised and cooperative economic order" to replace the "existing acquisitive and profit-motivated society."Newman said these humanist beliefs are now being taught in the classrooms of U.S. public schools.
Foreign religious beliefs have also infiltrated the U.S. public school system in recent years, he said. For example, last year reports said students in Madison, Wisconsin, were assigned to pretend they were Muslims, while students in Florida were instructed to recite the Five Pillars of Islam as a prayer and perform other Muslim rituals. Students in Tennessee were reportedly assigned to write the Shahada – the Islamic conversion creed.
Schools all over America are also promoting Buddhist meditation which is similar to prayer, Newman said.
At the same time, Christian practices are being curtailed. The Supreme Court has long declared that school-sponsored Bible reading is unconstitutional. Recently one Florida school system banned a Christian group from offering free Bibles on National Freedom of Religion Day. In 2013 an official at a California college ordered a student to remove or hide her cross necklace while working at a freshman orientation fair. One elementary school in Texas banned any mention of Christmas at a "winter party" held in December 2013.
"Any religion that doesn't have Christ in it is fine in the schools and is promoted in the schools," Newman said. "So what's going on here is really a war on Christianity."
Is the religion of Secular Humanism now being taught in public school classrooms?
There are two basic approaches to defining religion: a substantive approach, which focuses on the content of belief; and a functional approach, which focuses on what the belief system does for the individual or community. As James Davison Hunter explains:
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The substantive model generally delimits religion to the range of traditional theism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and so on. The functional model, in contrast, is more inclusive. By defining religion according to its social function, the functional model treats religion largely as synonymous with such terms as cultural system, belief system, meaning system, moral order, ideology, world view and cosmology.
“Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism.”
In other words, a functional definition describes religion as "a set of beliefs, actions and emotions, both personal and corporate, organized around the concept of an Ultimate Reality. This Reality may be understood as a unity or a plurality, personal or nonpersonal, divine or not, and so forth, differing from religion to religion."[2] Such a definition clearly encompasses the worldview of Secular Humanism. U.S. courts have moved from a generally substantive definition of religion (where the religion must affirm a transcendent deity) to a functional definition of religion even including Secular Humanism. For example, in United States v. Kauten (2d Cir. 1943), conscientious objector status was granted to Mathias Kauten, not on the basis of his belief in God, but on the basis of his “religious conscience.” The court concluded: "Conscientious objection may justly be regarded as a response of the individual to an inward mentor, call it conscience or God, that is for many persons at the present time the equivalent of what has always been thought a religious impulse."[3] Thus, the court clearly adopted the functional definition of religion as opposed to a substantive or distinctly theistic one. Another example of the adoption of a functional understanding of religion occurred in Fellowship of Humanity v. County of Alameda (1957). In this case, the Fellowship of Humanity sought recovery of property taxes because, it argued, its grounds were used for religious worship (though not the worship of a transcendent deity). They were awarded a refund of paid property taxes.[4] In praise of the decision, Paul Blanshard, a signatory of the Humanist Manifesto II, declared that the court's decision regarding the Fellowship of Humanity represented "another victory for those who would interpret the word religion very broadly [viz. to include Secular Humanism]… "[5] One final example is well-known. In 1961 the Supreme Court handed down the Torcaso v. Watkins decision regarding a Maryland notary public who was disqualified from office because he would not declare a belief in God. The Court ruled in his favor. It argued that theistic religions could not be favored by the Court over non-theistic religions. In fact, in a footnote that clarifies what the Court means by non-theistic religions, we read, "Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others."[6] Clearly, American courts understand religion to include non-theistic religions like Secular Humanism. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has not been consistent in applying its definition of religion to its present interpretation of the First Amendment. If the no-establishment clause of the First Amendment really means that there should be a wall of separation between religion and the state, why are only theistic religions being forced out of the public square specifically Christianity? If Secular Humanism is a religion, something the U.S. Supreme Court has acknowledged and something countless Humanists insist is true[7], why is it allowed in our public schools? As James Davison Hunter says,
To be legally consistent the courts will either have to articulate a constitutional double standard or apply the functional definition of religion to the no establishment clause just as they have to the free exercise [clause]. The latter would mean that secularistic faiths and ideologies would be rigorously prohibited from receiving even indirect support from the state, which needless to say would have enormous implications for public education.[8]
Enormous implications indeed! Even Leo Pfeffer, the Humanist attorney who argued the Torcaso case, declared that Fundamentalists, individually or collectively, have manifested no indication of giving up in their crusade against secular humanism in the public schools. Pfeffer fears that if the Supreme Court upholds its current understanding of religion to include Secular Humanism and orders the teachings of Humanism to be removed from the public schools "the consequences may be no less than the disintegration of our public school system and the end of Horace Mann's dream."[9] But Humanism remains de facto the established religion of our land, and the public schools are the main vehicle for the promotion of its worldview. As one great Humanist triumphantly declared: Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday-school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?[10]
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