What people are saying:

• Secular Education Association: Let’s talk about “spiritual warfare.”
  Because “the Bible is your weapon” doesn’t appear out of nowhere.

  ➡️Spiritual warfare divides the world into sides: God and the enemy. Truth and deception. Good and evil.

  …Now teach that framework to children.

  …Teach them that their Bible is a weapon.

  …Then teach them that homosexuality is sinful. That unbelievers need saving. That other religions are false. That people who reject their theology are rejecting God.

  Do the f*cking math. You are teaching children to look at human beings around them and sort them according to which side of a cosmic war they occupy.

  👉Their gay classmate isn’t just gay.
  Their atheist classmate doesn’t just believe differently. Their Muslim or Jewish neighbor doesn’t simply practice another faith.

  🚨They become territory in a battle between God and the enemy. And then we act shocked when religious warfare produces contempt, exclusion and hate.😳
  You don’t have to teach children to hate people directly when you’ve already taught them to see those people as the enemy.

  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association The Reformation Church in Shelbyville KY is big on this spiritual warfare stuff. They often compare their efforts to the main characters in the Tolkien stories and like to have parties where members dress in medieval costumes. Putting on the armor of god is often discussed and the co-pastors use AI to depict themselves as armored warriors. This is the group that sheltered the members who stole all the LGBTQ+ books from our local library, and they are very proud of doing so.
  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association To weaponize faith by teaching children to view their neighbors as combatants in a cosmic war is a profound betrayal of the Gospel, standing in direct opposition to everything Jesus actually modeled and commanded. Christ never taught His followers to sort human beings into categories of friend or foe, nor did He invite us to look at classmates and neighbors through a lens of suspicion and contempt. Instead, He commanded radical, unconditional love, urging us to love our neighbors, welcome the outcast, and recognize the inherent dignity of every human being. When religion is distorted into a battleground that breeds division, it strips away the very heart of Christianity; grace, mercy, and radical empathy, replacing the healing message of love with the corrosive fruit of self-righteous exclusion.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User this!
  • Facebook User: To weaponize faith by teaching children to view their neighbors as combatants in a cosmic war is a profound betrayal of the Gospel, standing in direct opposition to everything Jesus actually modeled and commanded. Christ never taught His followers to sort human beings into categories of friend or foe, nor did He invite us to look at classmates and neighbors through a lens of suspicion and contempt. Instead, He commanded radical, unconditional love, urging us to love our neighbors, welcome the outcast, and recognize the inherent dignity of every human being. When religion is distorted into a battleground that breeds division, it strips away the very heart of Christianity; grace, mercy, and radical empathy, replacing the healing message of love with the corrosive fruit of self-righteous exclusion
  • Facebook User: Facebook User you need to tell this to Facebook User who thinks this is totally fine.
  • Facebook User: Kitty, you can tag me all you want, but perhaps you should take the time to actually comprehend what I’ve been saying before suggesting someone needs to educate me.

    First of all, I agree that Jesus taught us to love our neighbors, show compassion, extend grace, and treat others with dignity. Not once have I suggested otherwise. So I’m not sure why you believe Kevin’s comment somehow contradicts anything I’ve said.

    Where exactly did teaching a child to use the Bible as their spiritual weapon become teaching them to view their classmates, neighbors, or anyone else as their enemies?

    Ephesians 6:12 specifically tells us, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood.” Then, just a few verses later, Ephesians 6:17 identifies “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

    The Bible itself explains the metaphor!

    Our battle is spiritual, NOT against other human beings. Teaching children to turn to Scripture when facing fear, temptation, anger, lies, peer pressure, or difficult circumstances is NOT teaching them to hate or attack anyone. In fact, that very same Bible commands them to LOVE their neighbors.

    You can believe in spiritual warfare AND love your neighbor. Those two things are not mutually exclusive!

    Children are taught metaphors and figurative language from a very young age. We tell children to “put on their thinking caps.” Does anyone actually believe we’re instructing them to put on a physical hat? We call children our “sunshine.” Does anyone believe we’re suggesting they’re literally the sun?

    Yet somehow, when Scripture refers to the Word of God as a sword, you suddenly want to interpret that as encouraging physical violence or hostility toward other people, despite the passage specifically explaining otherwise.

    If someone were actually teaching children that their classmates and neighbors were enemies, I wouldn’t support that either. But you’ve provided no evidence that this is what LifeWise is teaching by using that biblical metaphor.

    And let’s be perfectly clear about something else.

    This isn’t our first, second, third, or even fourth go-around.

    We’ve had these exchanges repeatedly. You’ve even shown up in discussions on other local pages to continue arguing with me. So at this point, it becomes increasingly difficult to believe this is simply a matter of misunderstanding.

    You seem perfectly capable of comprehending plain English when it supports your narrative. But the moment someone presents Scripture, context, facts, or a reasonable explanation that challenges your position, suddenly the meaning becomes obscure.

    You can’t see it. You can’t hear it. You can’t comprehend it. Or you conveniently ignore it altogether and move on to something else.

    That’s not a failure of communication. That’s selective comprehension.

    And THAT is the difference between having an honest disagreement and demonstrating intellectual immaturity.

    A mature person can listen to an opposing argument, understand it, consider the evidence, and still disagree. An intellectually immature person distorts the argument, ignores the explanation, or changes the subject rather than acknowledge that someone else might have a valid point.

    You don’t have to agree with me. You don’t have to share my faith. You don’t even have to support LifeWise. Those are your choices, and you’re entitled to them.

    But disagreeing with someone’s beliefs and repeatedly misrepresenting those beliefs are two entirely different things.

    I’ve explained the distinction between spiritual warfare and physical violence. I’ve provided the Scripture. I’ve provided the context. And I’ve explained why teaching children to turn to the Bible for guidance and strength is not equivalent to teaching them to view other human beings as enemies.

    I’m not going to keep defending an argument I never made simply because you insist on assigning it to me.

    The Bible teaches us to put on the armor of God, NOT to declare war on our neighbors. That has been my point from the very beginning.

    And here’s where I’ll leave this:

    You don’t win an argument by deliberately misunderstanding the other person’s position. You don’t prove someone wrong by ignoring everything that contradicts your opinion. And you certainly don’t demonstrate intellectual maturity by refusing to acknowledge an explanation simply because it doesn’t support the conclusion you’ve already decided to believe.

    At some point, the question stops being whether something has been explained clearly enough and becomes whether you’re willing to understand it at all.

    Because there’s a tremendous difference between genuinely not understanding something and refusing to understand it because being right matters more to you than understanding what’s right.

    And I think I’ve made myself abundantly clear.👌

• Facebook User: Embarrassingly on the nose for hypocrisy; this is the textbook definition of indoctrination.
• Facebook User: While I agree that the use of this terminology is outdated and teaches children to use the Bible in ways that aren’t exactly healthy or appropriate, they are calling the Bible a weapon based on a common interpretation of Hebrews 4:12, which says that the word of God is sharper than any double-edged sword. The competition that those children are participating in is called a “sword-drill.”
  • Facebook User: Facebook User to the rest of the population this is highly disturbing and questionable. Most parents would not be okay with their kids being taught this.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User Yes, it’s a common interpretation. And there are several passages using swords, armor and battle imagery that Sword Drill could be drawing from. But NONE of those passages is telling Christians to commit violence in Christ’s name or to make others who believe differently your enemy.
    And that’s the important part when you put Sword Drill alongside what these kids are being taught about spiritual warfare, an enemy, fallen angels, demons operating in the world, and being soldiers in God’s army.

    And honestly, the fact that Sword Drill is an established thing makes this worse, not better. This isn’t just a cute name for kids racing to find Bible verses. It’s a formal competition with written rules, judges, scoring, prescribed positions and commands like “Draw swords” and “Charge,” with children physically holding their Bibles as the sword. 👀

    Any one of these things can be brushed off as metaphor or tradition. But put them together: children are taught there is a real spiritual enemy operating in the world, then repeatedly given the language of armies, enemies, armor, weapons, soldiers and battle to understand their place in it. The fact that adults have been formalizing that into a children’s activity for generations doesn’t make it less concerning. It makes it more concerning.

  • Facebook User: Facebook User outdated terminology doesn’t make the practice just or moral. This is teaching hate and bigotry, not the love that Jesus taught.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User it’s sick
  • Facebook User: Facebook User sounds an awful lot like you’ve been taught spiritual warfare but have not been a victim of it.
• Facebook User: Well, that looks worse than I imagined.
• Facebook User: We actually talked about the dangers of this in one of my Bible classes in University (I regret going there, but I got a lot of student aid) it was one if the only good things they talked about in our class was talking about how the Bible can be used as a weapon and how we should avoid doing that.
• Facebook User: Well, that’s horrifying.
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• Facebook User: No child should be subjected to intense, militaristic manipulation in a place where they should feel safe and nurtured. 😶 I sincerely hope that as these kids grow older, they are able to find the space, support, and clarity they need to unlearn this high-stress conditioning and heal from the emotional toll of being used as pawns in someone else’s battle.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User but we do know now how they keep the up-and-coming Maga base so stupid and controlled 
• Facebook User: This is wrong on so many levels
  • Facebook User: Facebook User After America became a nation Congress approved a Bible for schools:

    Robert Aitken who did all of the printing for Congress, proclamations etc. in the beginning of America….He goes to them and he says, “Hey, we haven’t been allowed to print Bibles under the king, but we’ve been at war with the king for a while and it looks like we might be doing our own thing. I’ve been working on a side project. Would it be okay if I printed a Bible?”

    After Congress appointed a committee to oversee the project. The committee chose two pastors to review the Bible to make sure it was a good translation.

    Inside the Aitken Bible it has a congressional endorsement: that the United States and Congress assemble they highly approve the pious and undertaking from Mr. Aitken. It concludes and they recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States.

    In the actual records of Congress, when Robert Aitken goes to make the appeal, part of what he says is, “We have such a Bible shortage that our kids don’t have enough Bibles for their schools, for education.” And the Bible was viewed as the number one textbook students used in school.
    So his appeal literally when Congress approves, endorses, and authorizes him to do this. It’s not just that we have Bibles in America. Literally, it was to approve the request so we’d have more Bibles for kids in school to be able to read the Bible.

    John Adams wrote a letter to the militia of Massachusetts in 1798, in it he said: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly and adequate to the government of any other.”

    The Bible should be viewed as a foundational document for Government.

    The right time or earliest time to train a person about Government/any other topic the Bible covers is when a child learns to read.

    Abraham Lincoln: ‘The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.’

    Fisher Ames – Framer of the Bill of Rights…… he’s the guy credited for coming up with the house language for the first amendment. …. Where we get our freedom of religion.

    When looking at schools of his day, He wrote that he noticed a lot more books were added to the classrooms, they had good content, but the more time spent on those books, the less time is spent on the Bible & then said: If we’re not careful: The Bible will drift to the back of our classrooms & this can’t be tolerated in American education.

    The first public school law in America was in 1647 – The Old Diluter Satan Act. …. Who has desired the kids would know the Bible, because then they would know how: Government are supposed to operate, The Courts are supposed to operate They would know how civil atrocities Didn’t get introduced like over in Europe.

    Benjamin Rush – signer of the declaration and considered the father of public schools under the Constitution.

    In 1790 & 1791 he gave a dozen reasons on why we should never take the Bible out of public schools in America.

    He gave a great warning into future generations: He said: Any Generation that takes the Bible out of schools it’s going to spend its money on fighting crime.

    In 1962/63 the Supreme Court said from two different cases: , Time to take the Bible out of schools and it has been noted that there is no historical or legal reason why they did that.

    Benjamin Rush said: the Bible, when not read in schools is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.

    John Quincy Adams said: in regard to the history contained in the Bible it’s not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with it as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

• Facebook User: Just saying…
  • Facebook User: Facebook User in fact, it is.

    Ephesians 6:12 says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, and just a few verses later, Ephesians 6:17 tells us what weapon we ARE given: “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

    So when it is said, “Draw your weapon,” it is not referring to drawing a physical weapon against another human being. It means open your Bible. Turn to the Word of God.

    Our battle is spiritual, so our weapon is spiritual.

    When fear comes—draw your weapon.
    When temptation comes—draw your weapon.
    When lies come—draw your weapon.
    When darkness surrounds you—draw your weapon.
    When the world tries to pull you away from God—draw your weapon.

    The weapon is the Word of God.

    That isn’t teaching a child violence. It is teaching a child where to turn when life gets hard. It is teaching them to fight fear with faith, lies with truth, hatred with love, and darkness with the Word of God.

    There is nothing disgusting about teaching a child to reach for Scripture. The Bible itself calls the Word of God the sword of the Spirit.

    And if we are going to quote, “our struggle is not against flesh and blood,” then we should keep reading—because the very same passage tells us to put on the armor of God and take up “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” 📖🙏

  • Facebook User: Facebook User you expect kids to understand this concept?
    This is disturbing and MOST people take issue with this.
  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association
  • Facebook User: Facebook User first of all- I’m not sure what you think this 2nd video proves. No, I don’t personally believe in or agree with what is happening in that video. Even if it is just an enactment. Its not appropriate… thats not my denomination. But that has absolutely nothing to do with what we were discussing, eithcer. That’s a church VBS-not Lifewise

    Showing a video of people supposedly “killing the devil” and then asking whether children can understand that concept is comparing two completely different things. Teaching a child that the Bible is their “weapon” does NOT mean teaching them to do what is happening in this video. It means teaching them that when they face fear, temptation, anger, lies, peer pressure, or difficult things in this world, they can turn to Scripture for truth, guidance, strength, and faith. That metaphor comes straight from Ephesians 6. It specifically says our struggle is not against flesh and blood, tells believers to put on the armor of God, and then identifies “the sword of the Spirit” as “the word of God.”
    Kids understand metaphors all the time. A “shield of faith” isn’t a literal shield. The “armor of God” isn’t literal armor. And the “sword of the Spirit” isn’t a literal sword. Or you are my sunshine- the child is clearly not the sun.

    So no, posting an extreme example from a completely different religious practice doesn’t suddenly make teaching a child to turn to their Bible “disturbing.”

    You can disagree with LifeWise. You can disagree with Christianity. You can even disagree with teaching children the Bible. But at least disagree with what is ACTUALLY being taught instead of attaching an unrelated video to it and pretending they’re the same thing.

    They aren’t. And thats a wild stretch to relate Lifwise to this enactment of a VBS. Just know people worship the devil as well. I don’t see you so mad about that.. Why aren’t you on here on preaching and advocating for people who worship that? They also take their children. Would you like me to Google what THAT worship looks like? Im assume since youre so anti- God you could probably clue me in on that.

  • Facebook User: Facebook User the 2nd video is in the same vein.
    There’s no difference between a VBS and Lifewise other than the time it occurs.
    Weapons are used for violence.
    Kids don’t understand the differences.
    Its clear they don’t because they are using faith as a weapon against those who don’t believe the same or are different, when they are back at school.
• Facebook User: How can this have a positive impact on anyone? The divisiveness in the weaponization has huge psychological impacts.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User Exactly. Because once you teach a child that life is a spiritual war, the next question is unavoidable: who are they fighting?

    Children share classrooms with Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, LGBTQ kids and families of every imaginable belief. They need to learn how to live together — not how to divide the world into armies, enemies and weapons.

  • Facebook User: Facebook User Benjamin Rush – signer of the declaration and considered the father of public schools under the Constitution.

    In 1790 & 1791 he gave a dozen reasons on why we should never take the Bible out of public schools in America.

    He gave a great warning into future generations: He said: Any Generation that takes the Bible out of schools it’s going to spend its money on fighting crime.

• Facebook User: This is some 90s “Lord’s Army” stuff!!
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User YES! — and there’s actually a much longer history here. The Bible’s spiritual-warfare imagery is ancient, but “Onward, Christian Soldiers” was written specifically for children in 1864–65. Children marched while singing themselves into the imagery of an army going into battle.

    That military-Christian vocabulary kept resurfacing through revivalism, missionary movements and the world-war era.

    Then something changed again in the 1980s and 90s. Alongside the rise of the Religious Right and the culture wars, “spiritual warfare” exploded across American evangelicalism: Armor of God, prayer warriors, territorial spirits, Satan as an active enemy, Christians taking territory, kids singing about being in the “Lord’s Army.” Frank Peretti’s spiritual-warfare novels became evangelical phenomena. At the huge Lausanne evangelical congress in 1989, the THREE most attended workshops were about spiritual warfare.

    And by 1993, evangelical leaders themselves were sounding an alarm. A Lausanne working group said there had been an “explosion of interest” in spiritual warfare and specifically warned that warfare language was causing some Christians to develop adversarial attitudes toward other human beings and people of other faiths. AHEM. 👀

  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association I grew up in this!!! I was surprised to find recently that the “territorial spirits” and “prayer warriors” are a recent theological addition and not considered sound theology in many spaces!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User My parents felt call by God to become officers in the Salvation Army when I was nine years old. (1960s and 1970s)They spent ten years in this work. I was exposed to the “war-like” jargon ( uniforms, ‘corps instead of church, officer ranks, army of God, etc) but it was intended for the battlement against sin, Satan, etc. The Salvation Army was started by William Booth back in 1865, in London, England.

    I later became a liberal Christian, and I also believe that LifeWise is wrong to be taught in the public schools. This should be done either after school or the parents should be taking their children to church.

    My impression of the video above is that the kids are doing a game of looking up Bible verses. It’s a race to see who can find the verse first, thereby learning the books of the Bible. I am not quite sure how this fits into Character Education but it has its purpose – just not during school time. Teachers have so much to teach and accomplish for the various state tests. I also believe that LifeWise is indoctrinating the students into the Baptist culture.

  • Facebook User: Facebook User cult culture.
• Facebook User: This is disgusting. If you are using the Bible as a weapon, you are using it wrong.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User agreed. We suspect this “weapon” language comes from Ephesians 6, where Scripture is called the “sword of the Spirit.” But there’s a pretty enormous piece of context missing: just five verses earlier, the passage says “our struggle is not against flesh and blood.”

    The Bible uses spiritual-warfare imagery, yes. It also says love your enemies, overcome evil with good, and records Jesus telling his follower to put away his sword. If you’re going to teach children to “DRAW YOUR WEAPON,” maybe you’d better be extraordinarily clear about the other half of that theology:

    People are not the enemy.

  • Facebook User: Facebook User What’s disgusting is twisting the meaning of those words.
    When we teach a child that the Bible is their weapon, we are not teaching them violence. We are teaching them to reach for TRUTH when the world feeds them lies. To reach for FAITH when fear takes over. To reach for WISDOM when they don’t know which way to turn. To reach for GOD’S WORD when the world tells them they have to fight their battles alone.
    The Bible says, “the sword of the Spirit… is the word of God.” — Ephesians 6:17.
    So yes, I will teach my children to draw their weapon.
    Not a weapon that wounds people—but one that fights fear, temptation, hatred, hopelessness, confusion, and everything else this world throws at them.
    Because the answers I want them grounded in aren’t found in the opinions of this world. They’re found in the Word of God.
    Our Bible IS our weapon against the darkness of this world.
    And I will never be ashamed of teaching a child to pick it up. Period. 🙏📖
  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association Exactly — our struggle is NOT against flesh and blood. That is the entire point.

    Ephesians 6:12 says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, and just a few verses later, Ephesians 6:17 tells us what weapon we ARE given: “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

    So when it is said, “Draw your weapon,” it is not referring to drawing a physical weapon against another human being. It means open your Bible. Turn to the Word of God.

    Our battle is spiritual, so our weapon is spiritual.

    When fear comes—draw your weapon.
    When temptation comes—draw your weapon.
    When lies come—draw your weapon.
    When darkness surrounds you—draw your weapon.
    When the world tries to pull you away from God—draw your weapon.

    The weapon is the Word of God.

    That isn’t teaching a child violence. It is teaching a child where to turn when life gets hard. It is teaching them to fight fear with faith, lies with truth, hatred with love, and darkness with the Word of God.

    There is nothing disgusting about teaching a child to reach for Scripture. The Bible itself calls the Word of God the sword of the Spirit.

    And if we are going to quote, “our struggle is not against flesh and blood,” then we should keep reading—because the very same passage tells us to put on the armor of God and take up “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” 📖🙏

  • Facebook User: Facebook User Weapons WOUND, HURT, and KILL. That is literally their purpose.

    If it isn’t your purpose to use it to hurt others that are different from you, I insist you should choose different language.

    But, my guess is, you do use it to hurt those that are different from yourself by believing they are the darkness of the world that you must wound and hurt them with your weapon.

    Language matters.

    And you are being fooled by swallowing the bullshit being fed to you that this language is harmless and not a part of a bigger plan to attack, harm, and transform this country into a place where Christians that don’t belong to the “right” denomination, and non-Christians can be discriminated against.

  • Facebook User: Facebook User Annie/Anna is a LifeWise nut.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User unfortunately that’s not how it is taught! We were told to use it to stand against the enemy and that was anyone that didn’t fit our churches opinions! It’s used as a weapon now in our government. Just listen to Pete hegseth he sounds like someone trying to start another inquisition.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User girl please 🙄
  • Facebook User: Facebook User i don’t know where you’re saying it’s taught at like that- its not what i see here in this video., And if youre referring to a church- not every church is the same nor has the bible as the foundation of their teaching. If that was taught at your church. It’s probably time to find a new one. It’s not taught like that at my church and as a Sunday school teacher, I don’t teach it that way either. And as someone who is on the board of and has built a lifwise program from the ground up…. It’s not taught this way, our LifeWise program or my church, but I fully understand the analogy here and the power behind using the bible and the words in it as a weapon.l to defeat opposition around us.
    And thats a powerful tool. To know no matter what we face, both good and bad the bible is there with answers. Its crazy anyone would twist this into anything except.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User After America became a nation Congress approved a Bible for schools:

    Robert Aitken who did all of the printing for Congress, proclamations etc. in the beginning of America….He goes to them and he says, “Hey, we haven’t been allowed to print Bibles under the king, but we’ve been at war with the king for a while and it looks like we might be doing our own thing. I’ve been working on a side project. Would it be okay if I printed a Bible?”

    After Congress appointed a committee to oversee the project. The committee chose two pastors to review the Bible to make sure it was a good translation.

    Inside the Aitken Bible it has a congressional endorsement: that the United States and Congress assemble they highly approve the pious and undertaking from Mr. Aitken. It concludes and they recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States.

    In the actual records of Congress, when Robert Aitken goes to make the appeal, part of what he says is, “We have such a Bible shortage that our kids don’t have enough Bibles for their schools, for education.” And the Bible was viewed as the number one textbook students used in school.
    So his appeal literally when Congress approves, endorses, and authorizes him to do this. It’s not just that we have Bibles in America. Literally, it was to approve the request so we’d have more Bibles for kids in school to be able to read the Bible.

    John Adams wrote a letter to the militia of Massachusetts in 1798, in it he said: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly and adequate to the government of any other.”

    The Bible should be viewed as a foundational document for Government.

    The right time or earliest time to train a person about Government/any other topic the Bible covers is when a child learns to read.

    Abraham Lincoln: ‘The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.’

    Fisher Ames – Framer of the Bill of Rights…… he’s the guy credited for coming up with the house language for the first amendment. …. Where we get our freedom of religion.

    When looking at schools of his day, He wrote that he noticed a lot more books were added to the classrooms, they had good content, but the more time spent on those books, the less time is spent on the Bible & then said: If we’re not careful: The Bible will drift to the back of our classrooms & this can’t be tolerated in American education.

    The first public school law in America was in 1647 – The Old Diluter Satan Act. …. Who has desired the kids would know the Bible, because then they would know how: Government are supposed to operate, The Courts are supposed to operate They would know how civil atrocities Didn’t get introduced like over in Europe.

    Benjamin Rush – signer of the declaration and considered the father of public schools under the Constitution.

    In 1790 & 1791 he gave a dozen reasons on why we should never take the Bible out of public schools in America.

    He gave a great warning into future generations: He said: Any Generation that takes the Bible out of schools it’s going to spend its money on fighting crime.

    In 1962/63 the Supreme Court said from two different cases: , Time to take the Bible out of schools and it has been noted that there is no historical or legal reason why they did that.

    Benjamin Rush said: the Bible, when not read in schools is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.

    John Quincy Adams said: in regard to the history contained in the Bible it’s not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with it as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

• Facebook User: Aww it’s like LARPing conquering hero, good vs. evil, etc. I can start to understand why in our history, healthier mechanisms of fulfilling this psychological need–video games, D&D–have been demonized by religious figures. They weren’t concerned about *harm,* they were concerned about being replaced by things that give the same sense of battle, purpose, and satisfaction, while being more fun and less weird.
• Facebook User: Thank you so much for your work. This is so important for folks to see.
• Facebook User: You need to finish………because of sin he DESERVED to die-but he was given undeserved grace and likewise, our past doesn’t define us. The character traits and promises in the Bible are all the weapons needed to defeat evil-no physical aggression is necessary. How can these statements of peace and forgiveness be seen in a negative light?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User a groomed individual does not know they are groomed. They do not know themselves at all.
• Facebook User: 🫢
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• Facebook User: And these people cry about the Quran 🙄
• Facebook User: Wow..outrageous!
• Facebook User: And while doing this they accuse everyone else of indoctrinating kids.
• Facebook User: This is some cult shit
• Facebook User: This is wrong
• Facebook User: erm,…. What is this?? A useless page-turning contest?? 😬