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 monasteries against the new dark ages

I've been catching up on my Wanderer reading since I got back from our Canadian trip and this morning I read an excellent article, Bouleversement by Deacon James H. Toner from the July 21st edition. (I couldn't find it online, but you can buy a copy at The Wanderer website. I'm saving mine; it's that good.)

The word bouleversement means:

turmoil and convulsion; it points to an inversion of things, especially a violent one; but it also suggests confusion and convulsion; it suggests a forceful overthrow of what we know.

Why Home School? The answer is becoming more obvious every day.

American Thinker has an article that every parent with children in public schools should read.

Swallow Your Pride, Save Your Child

If you know the background of compulsory public education, you are aware of what this author points out. If you are unfamiliar with the educational philosophy undergirding public education, you need to understand it and he explains it well:

The Truth about John Dewey, Social Engineer and Mind-Numbing Socialist

Changing a culture begins with social engineering, and social engineering begins with verbal engineering. Think about it. Abortion in most people's minds isn't connected to killing children; it's "freedom of choice," and as American as apple pie. The death peddlars don't sell euthanasia by promoting starvation and dehydration. They label it "dignity in dying."

Children in the classroom have always been the social engineer's target. Control the minds of the children and you control the future. And Dewey's future was socialism. He wasn't interested in bringing about change through politics. That gives the people too much control. No, his medium of change was the classroom - teaching the teachers to indoctrinate the children. Dewey was brilliant and his impact is evident in the dumbing down of America, where kids working at Lowes can't measure a piece of window glass, where voters don't know that there are three branches of government, etc.  Give Dewey credit; he deserves it. He was the education emperor behind many modern methods that teach the goal of education isn't to seek the truth, but to build cooperation and conformity. Today, many Americans are onto the truth about John Dewey, the great mind number.

The education emperor has no clothes!

John Dewey is a Fraud

Meditation for Sunday: Make a Judgment

If you read my blog you know I linked to a post yesterday about Target promoting the gay agenda. I also posted the link on my Facebook page and it generated quite a discussion and the usual liberal criticism that no one has the right to judge other people's choices. However, in the course of the discussion those saying "Don't judge!" made numerous judgments. 

First judgment: "The link was filled with hate." (It wasn't. It called homosexual behavior depraved which is true and disease ridden - also true. Some of the comments were rude and profane, but the initial post was not hateful.) The second judgment was that no one can decide what "love" between any two people is. It is an "enigmatic emotion" different for everyone Actually, that is two judgments that contradict each other. I.e., no one knows what love is because it's different for everybody who loves, but nevertheless it is an "enigmatic emotion." Another judgment was that posting the link showed "prejudice." Now that is a critical and derogatory judgment. Further, when I posted about Muslim men having the right to rape their wives (Is that love?), I was also judged to have made a "racist" comment. So my non-judging critic judged me to be a prejudiced racist who is judgmental. Wow! What a judgment!

This is the problem with liberal argument. It is inherently illogical and self-contradictory. It begins with, "It's wrong to judge!" which is a judgment. It moves on to "You don't have the right to judge others," and immediately moves on to judging those to whom they have just denied the right to judge. Another judgement that is typical in liberal argument is their judgment that morality is completely individualist. However, the individual who is, dare I say, judged to have the wrong morality (i.e., traditional, Christian) is labeled with all kinds of, dare I say, judgmental terms like "homophobic, prejudiced, intolerant, racist, and ugly (well, in a manner of speaking). 

The entire Facebook conversation would have been amusing if it weren't so sadly illustrative of the mindless propaganda taught to young people raised in the public school system. John Dewey, the Father of modern education,

California: The Stupid (and Illiterate) State

How California Educators Created an Educational Disaster

California has been dumbing down kids for several generations. The question I have is this: was it a deliberate attempt to reduce the ability of the electorate to make intelligent decisions and fight the left? John Dewey believed the purpose of education was social control and it's a whole lot easier to control people who can't read. At any rate, it seems that more and more California natives will be unqualified to compete for Silicon Valley high tech jobs. And, with people fleeing the state, fast food employers (as well as all other kinds) will need fewer employees.

One bright note: When the big one hits, fewer people will be impacted.

By the way, the dunce cap in the picture isn't for the students, it's for the educrats (starting with John Dewey) who sold them down the river!

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