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-