Life Matters - August 16, 2023
When the occupants within the city walls of Troy were “deceived” by the Grecians in antiquity, the Trojans were unaware, until it was too late, that the “gift horse” being wheeled inside their city walls held, within the belly of its seeming benevolence, men intent on a special mission. A mission to crawl out of that belly, under cover of a dark night, to open the gates set in those impregnable city walls, to their fellow warriors of the Grecian army, so to overtake and destroy the then-present order of things, setting up a new order of government within the conquered city, subjected to the laws, by-laws, tribute payments and above all, the release of a captured wife of nobility, as per demands from the government of Greece. The Trojans, as a whole, trusted in their walls until it was too late to reverse course. Until the tumult of conquest became the unmistakable, but too late, sound of alarm.
In America we cannot say we weren’t warned. We cannot say there were no warning signs of the covert, at times overt, but ever-deceptive, takeover of American education. And there have been the “Paul Reveres,” riding hard, pausing only long enough to shout “The ‘Grecians’ are coming! The ‘Grecians’ are coming!” before pounding the road to awaken the next sleepy outpost of resistance.
Samuel Blumenfeld, one such “Paul Revere,” first warned us in his 1984 book “NEA: Trojan Horse of American Education,” followed by five more printings in a seven-year span, the copy in my possession having been printed in 1990. The six printings, from 1984 to 1990, make up a sum total of 65,000 books printed, which seems like a lot until one considers the average U.S. population of that time period being at approximately 243 million which brings the percentage of books sold per capita to .000268 percent. The book seems to be in print still – at least electronically – but the National Education Association (NEA), using its overgrown political tentacles, including the Department of Education (DOE), has been very effective indeed in sidelining such “Paul Revere” warnings in favor of their own agenda, which, Blumenfeld effectively warns us, is anti-capitalist and pro-socialist as it lauds social causes more than academics and feelings more than fact. That 20th century warning, so largely unheeded by lethargically affluent Americans has now become a full-blown attempt to subvert young minds, to indoctrinate in humanism rather than to educate, to conquer by dividing rather than strengthen by uniting around the good cause of preparing for the real world where death and corruption are constant reminders that this very human race is, by nature, fallen and in need of the saving work, the redeeming salvation and qualities of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Blumenfeld clearly shows us, from the record of NEA history, that the secularization of American learning institutions was by design of the secular humanists in charge of 20th century education and dating back to the mid 19th century. It was not an accident that “just happened.” In that setting, methinks, The Theory of Evolution was not incorporated into school curriculum for its persuasive “science” but rather as a “vindicator” of secular humanism, which has since become the only accepted “religion” guiding a Leftist American government and its schools toward its goal of an ever-darker, Bible-illiterate future. While the look/say method drives reading illiteracy, humanism continues driving Bible illiteracy and “it’s only right if it makes me feel good” takes the wheel.
The NEA, meanwhile, continues to show its increasingly deep-seated contempt for the Bible and its precepts with it’s contempt becoming ever more overt and ”in-your-face” to conservative-thinking parents. As reported by the Catholic Exchange and the Epoch Times, the NEA is at the forefront of the push to normalize, through introduction in all schools under its auspices, LGBTQ+IA ideas and agendas that are not only the antithesis of, but are condemned by, the Word of God.
So where do we go from here? While the attempts to “clean up” local school boards is commendable and to be appreciated “The Trojan horse of American Education” continues to bear corrupt fruit because it has rejected God. Jesus said it this way, (Mt. 12:33) “Either make the tree good, and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by his fruit.“ The only sustainable way forward is to start at the roots. With a good tree. Life Matters!