The whole of America’s future lies in our children!!

I would like to take a short trip back to the 50s where we all were on edge fearing Communism as the greatest threat to our American freedoms.  Undeclared wars were set off and thousands of American boys were killed in Korea and then Vietnam.  We saw communism self-destruct and the final end of this threat came when the Berlin wall was taken down.  Could we have done this without a war?  I don’t know!

But human nature would not let our freedoms reign for long.  The first indication that America was in deep trouble came from the reading scores found in our government schools.  I refused to mess with this and put my kids in a private school where academics led the curriculum and what they overlooked was filled in by me.  We had plenty of time in the evening to pull out our reference books and talk about what made America the freest country on the planet.  This was in 1964 and my home was free from the television tube.  I went out on a search for books that told the story of our founding fathers and the development of our constitution.  Back then there were many available and they became a part of our home library.  As you can guess, I was a devout Fiscal Conservative and felt the future of America was in the Republican Party. 

My kids attended a secular private school but only after I saw the limited education they received in a small Christian school.  Apparently no harm was done as the kids grew up with rational brains.  But what of the others?

When children are raised with subjects considered sinful and harmful in their lives, I could see how easy it was to indoctrinate them in the acceptance of Communism and I understood the movement to destroy this in America.  But wait, what about this new movement that placed evolution in the sin column and replaced it with the biblical interpretation of creation developed by a …..a what?  Where did this theory of the Garden of Eden come from? 

From my graduation from high school I realized that we at least knew what we didn’t know and only through extended education, could we find it.  Today the kids graduate from 12 years of academics and have no idea what they don’t know and are told that it is probably sinful anyway, “so go practice your hamburger flipping and let that be enough for you.”

I went back through my old civics textbooks and those of my kids (30 years later) and was shocked at the lack of information given on the U.S. Constitution.  There was not enough information for any child to come up with a rational educated discussion of the basic laws of America.  I was so glad to have driven the crap from television and kept it away from the developing brains of my kids.  But what about the other American students?

What replaced our academic curriculum from our schools?  It can’t be anything other than the television, video games and the music our kids learned to love. They were turned off of anything presented without the bells and whistles found on MTV.  The solution is obvious!

But there was another cancer in our midst that we have overlooked in the last 50 years and that is the growth of religion.  Sure I was raised on religion but not to the extent of destroying everything else in our lives.  Even in my home of Mormon Missionaries they made absolutely certain that I could recognize good from evil instinctively as a dog learns that running the street could be dangerous.  When it became obvious to my Bishop Grandfather that I was not going to follow the family into the LDS church he sat me down and told me that all I had to do was to present to the rest of the world, my greatest gift and that was my word of honor.  I thought about that for many days and realized God had nothing to do with it.  If I took an oath, a vow or made a commitment it was between me and the recipient and nobody else. 

That discussion was in 1942 and for all these years I have lived by it.  I learned to look both ways and analyze all the consequences of my oath before I took it.  I realized that I had only one shot at this as my own conscience was my directive and no way could I break it and run to a church and confess and be forgiven.  The old man knew me pretty well and figured if I didn’t have Jesus to forgive me I needed to proceed slowly and surely. 

I feel this cancer of religion has damaged the very hearts and souls of too many Americans.  Our kids learn at an early age to follow authority and when they don’t they soon carry around an arrest record or end up killing themselves.  Is there no place to introduce them into analytical, rational and critical thinking?  Is there no attempt any where that can develop a brain that can locate the consequences of bad decisions?

I look back at the Schaivo Case and am appalled that the first thing the Americans want is for the federal government to enter the circus and try to overturn the laws of the state where she has been allowed to survive for the last 15 years. 

This is a sticky subject since the Federal Government added the 14^th Amendment thereby removing the authority of sovereign state rights putting the State Constitutions in jeopardy of meaning nothing but a shadow government following whatever the White House directs.  Our political balance is dying and our White house has been given the power to direct our lives and decisions from the crib to the grave. 

Do we need this authority?  Apparently we do as I saw little  independent thinking during this last month of demonstrated Christian love that would wipe out the laws not only within the states but changing the U.S. Constitution to follow what is perceived to be the mob majority of Christians. 

Have we finally become a Democracy being directed by this mob?  Have we traded our Constitutional Republic for mob rule?

The answer lies in the quality of education our children are not receiving.  Again questioning authority must be reintroduced into the family home.  I feel that if the parents haven’t got their ducks all in a row with a firm family agenda in place, their kids will wander around looking for attention.  

I’m not suggesting we tear down our churches but use them for spiritual development not academic restrictions.