We'll Reeducate the Superstitious Peasants, Yet!

1960's Soviet Propaganda Poster: "Religious Rites, Young and Old, Break the Ties!"

Religious freedom? Well, at least these people are finally being honest about what they believe. One can read much about the forced secularization of American life in general, mostly out of a sense of noblesse-oblige from the self annointed betters of our society. In other words, they are practicing their favorite line oft mentioned during self-congratulatory cocktail conversation about willfully converting the ignorant masses: "Dragging them kicking and screaming into the 21st Century."

Once again, the champions of tolerance prove that they are anything but. In the drive to make the great American unwashed come out of their ignorance, forced secularization is becoming the norm from bodies politic, usually among those with leftist leanings. Then again, in the words of their fellow traveller and would be man-god Lenin, "Some people are are more equal than others."

In true use of the First Amendment as toilet tissue, two low-income housing projects in Winter Park, Florida and Mechanicsburg, PA have essentially banned carroling and decoration of their apartment doors with religious symbols. After all, the good proletariat wouldn't have their clear intellect burdened by such superstition. If you don't believe me, here are the links to the story:

World Net Daily

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47892

Liberty Counsel

http://lc.org/pressrelease/2005/nr121305b.htm

These good folks who run the low income housing evidently are only following the law of "seperation of church and state," except that there is no such thing, only that the First Amendment prohibits the establishment of a "state church," and precisely the infringement of religious liberty that we see here. If there is any argument against twenty year's worth of education in Social Studies, it is the insanity that we see shoved into the faces of the American public by these self-annointed important persons.

Mirror that against the like minded comerade educators from Ridgeway Elementary School in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Although the Christmas program, redubbed "Winter Program," would decorate classrooms and the building with all manner of decorations that included: Santa Claus, menorahs, Kwanzaa items, and La Befana (the Italian "Christmas witch"), no manner of the actual reason for Christmas could be seen or heard. In fact, the hymn "Silent Night" was completely rewritten for the singing of the children as "Cold in the Night." Jesus is strictly "verboten!" How dare the people of limited intellect and the easily led trifle with important matters of education that only a properly state-trained educator has the capacity of understanding?

After action by those pesky parents who really don't know how to properly raise their children in the first place, the school backed off on the corruption of the hymn. Still, the audacity and the defiant spirit of the comerade educators remain. Next year, maybe they will require "seasonal rydalin" for the "suspect children?"

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, he once said that the philosophy of a generation in the classroom will be that generation's philiosophy of government as it gets older. Americans who value their freedom should be scared. Very, very scared.