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.
In a 1986 study of public school textbooks in America, the role of
religion in history was found to be "largely excised." Education Secre-
tary William J. Bennett denounced this "assault of secularism on reli-
gion." The survey illustrates how the "liberal bias" of the courts and
the publishers 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 Declara-
tion of Independence and the Constitution, has been censored from the
historic record.
World history, too, has been scissored by these self-appointed cen-
具体描述
读后感
评分
评分
评分
评分
用户评价
相关图书
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息，本站不存储任何数据与内容，任何内容与数据均与本站无关，如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有