Tuesday, May 03, 2016

LEFTIST TEXT BOOKS







                                                                                       




HOW TEXTBOOKS PUSH CHILDREN TO THE LEFT
One popular book provides a glimpse into the Left's preferred method of indoctrination.




This author surveyed the index of "The Americans," and found that in the 1,045 pages of text, there were only two references to Christianity, no references to Protestants, and five references to Roman Catholicism. There were zero references to God, zero references to Jesus Christ, and only one reference to evangelicals. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are described as “minor activists,” not as traitors who sold out their country for $10,000. Their being traitors is no
longer supposition or in any way debatable, but has been revealed conclusively by Harvey Klehr et al. in their monumental study The Secret World of American Communism based on documents made available after the collapse of the USSR. Prof. Klehr is a professor at Emory University and the book was published by Yale University Press, hardly right-wing organizations.

The same textbook has no index reference to John Calvin and the powerful Reformation currents that were alive and well in the 17th and into the 18thcenturies. And in the textbook’s sections on the "Pilgrims and the Puritans," the focus goes from Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson (essentially depicted as the first feminist victim of an uptight male patriarchy) to King Philip’s War between the Puritans and Wampanoag Indians in 1675. Although it’s not said outright, the book means to suggest that there was a certain bloodthirsty aspect to the Puritan culture. They were encroaching and exploitative, so the Indians had to fight back. The textbook fails to mention anything about the fifty-year peace treaty between the Wampanoags and the Puritans, which held up beautifully until Chief Massasoit and the Puritan leader John Winthrop died.

It fails to mention Thomas Hooker who founded Connecticut and, with his co-founders, wrote the first state constitution – "The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" – that was a model for representative government in the colonies. The book does not mention that Anne Hutchinson, though she was a woman, was permitted to lead Bible discussions at her home in Massachusetts. Only when she began teaching antinomian doctrine (i.e., that it was not necessary for a Christian to follow moral law) was she reprimanded, and banished when she failed to submit to the teachings of the colonial leaders. Moreover, the book fails to highlight the incredible faith of the Puritans as they actually succeeded, despite some flaws, on building that “city on the hill” out of the wilderness, and the debt of gratitude we owe to the righteous and faithful Puritans, people who walked the walk of faith wearing the whole armor of God. [FULL]

 I began reading Legal Insurrection's HOW TEXTBOOKS PUSH CHILDREN TO THE LEFT, and that triggered a visceral mind tug to Howard Zinn, the Prince of American LWMFCS (in my opinion). Okay, I feel better.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not a short or exiting thing to watch, but this man tells the real story of how American education became political indoctrination.-Anymouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQiW_l848t8

Sonoboy said...

This is why I've been giving the Rush Revere books to the younger family members for the last four years.

Linda Fox said...

Before going gonzo about this, remember - I read Zinn in college - believed it utterly.

Then, I grew up.

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