What shall we do in response to this assault on Christianity? Shall we run, shall we cower, or shall we act? I am in favor of the latter, so let’s start with our schools.
Reclaiming Education
In this modern era, our elites claim science and reason must be separated from that archaic limiter: faith. Is this the view that has been held since our Founding? What better place to start than Harvard? Chartered in 1636, Harvard was the first successful college in the country.
Here is what they expected from their students:
Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3), and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.
Nor were these temporary rules, for in 1790, the college similarly required:
All persons of what degree soever residing in the College, and all undergraduates…shall constantly and seasonably attend the worship of God in the chapel, morning and evening.
So firmly dedicated to this end, Harvard’s two mottos were “For the Glory of Christ” and “For Christ and the Church”, and the school was not alone in such a noble quest. Let’s look at another small university: Yale. Yale was founded in 1699 in order “to plant, and under the Divine blessing to propagate in this wilderness the blessed reformed Protestant religion.” In 1787 its rules likewise declared:
All scholars are required to live a religious and blameless life according to the rules of God’s Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, that fountain of Divine light and truth, and constantly attending all duties of religion…All the scholars are obliged to attend Divine worship in the College Chapel on the Lord’s Day and on Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving appointed by public Authority.
We will look at one more founded in 1754: Columbia. William Samuel Johnson, Constitution signer and the school’s first president, stated in a commencement speech to graduates:
You this day…[have] received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country…Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer.
I will admit you may not have heard of these obscure institutions. To provide further evidence, by 1890, 262 of 288 college presidents were ministers of the Gospel. Also, ministers were more than a third of all university faculty members. Over ninety percent of colleges conducted chapel services; at half, chapel attendance was compulsory.
Let’s hear what Noah Webster had to say about education. Why is this man an important source? Well, he is considered the "Father of American Scholarship and Education” for his dictionary, textbooks, and other works.
Any system of education…which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aid of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective. In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children under a free government ought to be instructed…No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
– Noah Webster
Education of the Young
Now, let us look at primary education as well. In 1690, the first public school textbook, The New England Primer, was published and frequently reprinted for the next two and a half centuries. Prominent in this early textbook was the “Rhyming Alphabet:”
A – In Adam’s fall we sinned all.
B – Heaven to find, the Bible mind.
C – Christ crucified, for sinners died.
And over 100 questions like:
1. What is the fifth commandment?
2. What is required in the fifth commandment?
3. What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
Nor was this book alone, for well into the twentieth century, public schools in Dallas, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Little Rock, and other districts across the nation taught courses like a “Bible Study Course of the Old Testament” and a “Bible Study Course of the New Testament” counting towards graduation.
The Bible and Christianity are fundamental to education. Why? For this question, let us look at another important American educator, Benjamin Rush. He is considered the “Father of Public Schools Under the Constitution” as he for started five universities and penned many textbooks.
– Benjamin Rush
In his 1791 “A Defense of the Use of the Bible as a School Book” he writes:
1. Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
4. That knowledge is most durable and religious instruction most useful when imparted in early life.
5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
It is impossible to deny the central importance of Christianity in education. Those who claim so are not educating but pushing an agenda: to infect the youth with a godless, Satanic religion. Does my statement seem too extreme for you? Let us go through the logic about Atheism.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Christ is the only way to salvation:
Those who do not believe in Christ are not saved.
Atheists do not believe in Christ.
Therefore, Atheists are not saved.
Those not saved are damned:
Those who are not saved will go to Hell.
Atheists are not saved.
Therefore, Atheists will go to Hell.
Hell is the realm of Satan:
Any religion that brings one to Hell is Satanic.
Atheism brings one to Hell.
Therefore, Atheism is Satanic.
We must call out secularism for exactly what it is: nothing more than an attempt to drive Christianity out of this nation. We must no longer believe their lies that it is about merely asking questions or being scientific. If the goal of education is to teach the Truth, then we cannot strip Truth from the Bible and therefore the Bible from education.
How long shall we cry? How long shall our preachers bemoan to us the struggles of being Christian in modern America? Maybe such talk is fine for you, however, I for one have no interest in becoming a volunteer victim. If we want anything to change, then we must act. We must not rest until our Lord is back in every school, in every state, across the entire nation. There can be no middle ground.
Leaders of the Lord
Nowadays, it is frowned upon for someone who is too Christian to be elected to office. Nor do religious leaders take stances on the topic for fear of being too political. Did those who founded this nation have the same views?
It is alleged by men of loose principles or defective views of the subject that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men “who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness…It is to the neglect of this rule of conduct in our citizens that we must ascribe the multiplied frauds, breaches of trust, peculations, and embezzlements of public property which astonish even ourselves.
Such a statement as this is not merely an opinion but an order from God.
Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
During the kings of Israel, every leader who turned from the Lord ruled poorly. Every king, from Zimri to Ahaziah to the most wicked Ahab, who did what was right in his own eyes, led not only himself, but the entire nation to sin. We should not believe that our country will be an exception. We will continue to rot until our leaders walk in the way of the Lord once more. Hopefully with the release of the Epstein files people can see what hides behind the shiny veneer of a godless government.
It is time to reject the view of the good atheist, that man can be good by man alone without the morals and teachings of Jesus Christ. A politician who is a true Christian is not a nicety, but a necessity. So much so that any other official must be driven out of the public domain entirely.
Under rulers of no other character has any Christian nation ever flourished for any length of time. Under rulers of a different stamp, nations have always degenerated and been finally brought to desolation and ruin.
Tear Down the High Places
Not only our leadership, not only our schools, but society itself must change! The reason why Christians are so hated in this modern era is because the principles of Christianity are opposed to this age.
1. There is Good and Evil in the World
The modern era wishes to say everything is grey, everything is relative, everything is malleable, and so there is no truth. The Christian takes the opposite approach. There are eternal, unbending laws of nature that come from the natural law and Holy Scriptures of God. The world is not grey, but black and white, right and wrong, good and evil.
2. The Good is Knowable
Not only is there good and evil, but we can learn the difference between the two. Yes, due to the Fall, our wills have weakened, our intellect darkened, and we have a drawing towards sin. Yet, through labor and desire the truth can be known.
3. We Can Choose the Good
Not only is the good knowable, but we can choose it, even if it is difficult. At the end of days, when we come to see the Creator face to face, we will not be able to say others made me do thus or that virtue was inconvenient at the time. What we will be judged on is whether we walked in the way of the Lord.
4. We Will be Rewarded or Punished in This Life and the Next Based on Our Actions
There does seem to be an egalitarian line of attack on this view by secularists on Christianity stating: “All I will need to do is repent at the end of my life, and then I will achieve just as great a reward as any Christian.” This statement assumes however, that a person who wastes his life, albeit confident in his redemption through faith, will stand on an equal footing before God with a man who strives to progress in character and service.
Such a reality would make a mockery of the Christian religion. While infinite in his mercy that does not mean Christ is indiscriminate in his sentimentality. As with any relationship, the stronger it is built, the more it will bear fruit. God does place a reward on growing in closeness with him, and that is why we must:
Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with Godliness.
We cannot have a society where cats are dogs, men are women, up is down, and left is right, and still expect Christianity to flourish. Christianity therefore is directly opposite to secularism, and so our nation is at a tipping point.
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
We cannot survive half with the Lord and half with Lucifer. One of the two must give way, but only one path provides hope.
The Holy Scriptures…can alone secure to society order, and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness…Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
Let me ask you one more time: “How long shall we hide?” Shall we cower at the yokes of slavery, the chains of bondage gather around our necks, as every vestige of the Lord is driven from our nation? Make no mistake: once Christianity is out of the public domain, they will come for our churches as well.
Run then, if you can, and still call yourself a man. However, I have never heard of a woman that wants to be with a slave. Did David run when facing Goliath. Did Jonathan run when facing Philistines. Did Hezekiah run when defending Jerusalem from the vast Assyrian hordes of King Sennacherib? Nay!
– Assyrian army besieging Jerusalem
Nor will you, for I see that noble luster in your eyes, which in times of peace is marked by stillness and humility, yet when the blast of the war blows, imitates the action of a tiger. Rise to full height you noblest American, and dishonor not your father or bring shame to your mother who birthed you.
Show that you are worth your breeding, and a copy now of men of grosser blood. For none among you are so mean, so base, that when a nation desperately in need of heroism calls, you hide and flee for safer pastures. Instead, like a brass cannon, summon up thy blood and belch forth every piece of the soul.
We must not bend, we must not break, we must not alter, we must not negotiate, we must not compromise. For The Lord Shall Reclaim This Nation Once More! With an outpouring of nobility and virtue, into the breach, dear friends, into the breach we fly. Follow your righteous spirit and charge forth: For America, For God, For the West! Deus Vult!
Your Humble and Obedient Servant,
Francisco Pereira
