Yesterday Jay Sekulow of the ACLJ interviewed Rep. Walter B. Jones, (R), NC about a bill waiting passage in the House, H.R. 268, to give military Chaplains the right to pray as they see fit. They have been denied the right to pray in the name of Jesus Christ for quite some time. No one was able to put a finger on the precise origin of this strange anomaly.
Scholars familiar with the history of the our War for Independence, the American Revolution, as well as the lives of the country's Founders, should be shocked at this modern-day betrayal of our early history. This censorship by top brass has apparently been going on for many years!
I missed some of Cong. Jones' case histories, but to one who follows the downgrading of our society, it is no real surprise. Our nation has been on a slippery slope, all downhill, since at least the beginning of the 20th century which often reminds me of the parable Jesus gave his followers, recorded in Matthew, 13th chapter, in which He tells them of a landlord whose wheat fields were unknowingly sown with tares (poisonous weeds) to which the servants exclaim, "An enemy has done this while we slept!"
The disciples didn't understand. They asked Jesus to explain. In vs. 38, He tells them the wheat field is the world; the tares are the children of Satan, secretly planted among the people.
This seems to be the time of which He spoke. Most U.S. citizens not only don't know anything about their enemies, or even that they voted most of them into office who in turn appointed others of whom most of us know little or nothing. This was especially true in the State Department commencing with F.D. Roosevelt.
When you hear a news item such as "The State Department(or any other government agency) said this or that..." it isn't true---someone employed there said it, and you may never know anything about him/her, including his name. We are inclined to believe the story even if we don't know who said or did it. The referenced Department had an enormous congregation of Soviet agents creating and directing our policies, most of whom are still unknown to the average American, particularly Americans whose opinions are molded by the headlines and can't be bothered with the facts of the story.
This is germane to the subject of the removal of Christ from public life, because in 1956 R.S. Pollack, Superintendent of Schools in New Jersey, sent a bulletin dated December 6, 1956, addressed to all school principals in NJ, which advised the educators "the State Department...reported a growing feeling..with respect to the celebration of Christmas by special observances and exercises in the public school. While this is not yet a situation that could be characterized as a problem, it is one that is growing and which will require our attention....it may be wise to consider beginning at once how the Christmas Program to be offered in your school could be re-planned and to emphasize instead the folk-lore values....." (This was how Christ was removed from Christmas!) although we don't know the name of WHO in the State Department sent the letter!
"It is the opinion of your Superintendent that within the foreseeable future, say the next 3 to 10 years, it will be required by the courts that the specifically religious aspect of the celebration will be deleted from public school programs, and that it will become illegal to use some of the hymns and anthems....
"....It is suggested that it might be well to begin to re-plan this program in this direction so that the change-over is so gradual as to be unnoticeable to the general public over a period of years."
/s/ R.S. Pollack, Superintendent (emphasis added)
This shocking "suggestion" is reminiscent of an early emanation from the pro-communist member of the State Department, Owen Lattimore, with regard to the betrayal of Korea and China that we "give Korea a parting grant" of $150,000,000 and then "let South Korea fall but not to let it look as though we pushed it." (NY Compass, Jan 17, 1949) Journalist John T. Flynn chracterized the"betrayal of China and Korea the most immoral--perhaps the blackest--story in our history."
To which we can now add the betrayal of the civilization which Christianity built. In an article Lattimore wrote further elucidating his beliefs, he said:
"The historical message in short of which special mention is made in the introduction, ls extended to demonstrate the superiority of socialism as practiced in the Soviet Union with the deliberate purpose of arriving at a future communism over the capitalism of the rest of the world. The method, it must be conceded, is formidable. It is not vulgar propaganda, but scientific argument on a plane that commands full intellectual respect." (italics added, he was reviewing a 1938 Soviet publication, a Soviet World Atlas by the Moscow head of the Institute of Economics.) One may well ask whatever happened to the atheist and socialist society of the Soviets - and how would they have survived WWII without the vast limitless aid of the United States?
Not to mention all the other communist/socialist states still receiving foreign aid from us?
Please forgive my ignorance, but what part does "the separation of church and state" play in this situation?
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