“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
 
~ Noah Webster, father of public education in America

Oddly enough, our public schools weren’t regularly used for target practice by unhinged malcontents back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Is anyone wondering why that’s changed over the last few decades? After all, forty – fifty years ago, gun ownership in America was as prevalent as it is today. The biggest difference? Our society wasn’t in meltdown mode yet.
 
In 1962, progressives demanded that we take prayer out of the public schools based on their bogus dogma of separation of church and state. Since then, their leftist policies have broken everything – and now they’re baffled by the chaos they’ve created. We’re drowning in the detritus:
 
• Broken marriages
• Broken families
• Broken schools
• Broken government
• Broken morality
• Broken sexuality
 
Kicking God out of schools has resulted in a free-for-all as far as morality goes. In fact the only thing that’s no longer tolerated in public education is traditional Judeo-Christian morality. We can’t even teach children the Golden Rule anymore.
 
When schools at least acknowledged God’s existence (not incidentally our most important founding principle), most of us understood that we’ll all eventually be accountable to our Creator for the life we’ve led, a belief which led naturally to much better behaved children.
 
In the 50’s, kids sticking chewing gum to desks and floors was the most serious disciple issue most schools faced. Today it’s a mentally-disturbed sociopath with a gun. What changed?

There’s been a mocking Twitter meme going around aimed at we silly Christians, rebuking us for appealing to God after a tragedy like the latest school shooting in Florida; “prayers can’t stop bullets.” It’s a lie.

Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country. Amen

 

 
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Related:
School Shootings, Gun Rights, and the Imitation of Evil

In FL, a mass murderer shoots up a school. On the same day, a teacher in CO is arrested for making a student stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. Leftist hand-wringers wonder what's gone wrong in our society. The problem is self-evident. Teaching respect is now outlawed in US.

— Lee Jackson (@Stonewall_77) February 15, 2018

Colorado Teacher Charged With Child Abuse After Allegedly Forcibly Making Student Stand for Pledge of Allegiance