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The Weekly Sam: Ten Reasons Why Christian Parents Should Take Their Children Out of Public Schools By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
There has been much debate of late among Christians whether or not their children
should be taken out of the public schools and put into private Christian schools or
homeschooled. I firmly believe that they should be taken out, and I’ve outlined ten good
reasons why this should be done, and done as soon as possible.
The first reason is pretty obvious. The Bible commands parents to bring up their
children in the love and admonition of the Lord. We read in Deuteronomy 6:6: “And
these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach
them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
How can a Christian parent obey that commandment and put a child in a school that is so
militantly anti-Christian and anti-God? The public schools represent the antithesis of a
Godly education. They should not be patronized by Christians.
Reason two: The public schools are not only anti-Christian but represent a government
establishment of religion called Humanism. Your child is at risk of being deChristianized
by the religion of public education. Here’s what humanist John J. Dunphy wrote in the
Humanist magazine of January 1983:
“I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in
the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as
proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects
the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers
must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist
preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead
of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of
educational level-preschool day care or large state university. The classroom
must become an arena of conflict between the old and the new-the rotting corpse
of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of
humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized
Christian ideal of ‘love thy neighbor’ will finally be achieved.”
We already know that millions of Christian children have lost their faith because they fell
prey to humanist proselytizers who preach that God does not exist and that human beings
can be as gods. Do you have any guarantee that your child will be immune from these
lies?
Reason three: The educators have redefined the purpose of education. Its purpose is no
longer to impart academic skills so that your child can develop independent intelligence,
and make a life for himself. The new purpose of education was defined by Professor
Benjamin Bloom in his book, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, published in 1956, in
which he wrote:
“By educational objectives, we mean explicit formulations of the ways in which
students are expected to be changed by the educative process. That is, the ways in
which they will change in their thinking, their feelings, and their actions …. The
evidence points our convincingly to the fact that age is a factor operating against
attempts to effect a complete or thorough-going reorganization of attitudes and
values …. The evidence collected thus fur suggests that a single hour of classroom
activity under certain conditions may bring about a major reorganization in
cognitive as well as affective behaviors.”
As a Christian parent you will never know-and you will never be told-when that single
hour of classroom activity will be sprung on your child. The child who returns home
from school that day, may not be the same child you sent to school that morning. You’ve
played Russian roulette with your child’s spiritual life, and you’ve lost. In addition, this
change of values between children and parents inevitably leads to intense conflict within
the family. When children adopt humanist values, they become haters of their family’s
biblical values. That’s what destroys so many Christian families.
Reason four: Public schools now teach sex education almost as a form of pornography,
encouraging children to engage in premarital recreational sex. The result is that many
Christian girls have lost their virginity, developed sexually transmitted diseases, become
pregnant, had an abortion, and lost their self-esteem. The boys, under peer pressure, are
forced into sexual intimacy long before they are ready to be fathers. The children are
considered animals with no control over their sexual urges.
Reason five: Drug education arouses interest in drugs, especially when the children are
told that they must make their own decisions about drugs. This gives children a choice,
which any Christian parent would consider the wrong thing to do. There is no decision
making when it comes to drugs. A Christian child need not know all about drugs. All he
needs to know is that drugs are unequivocally forbidden. But that’s not the message
conveyed in the public schools. The result? Many Christian children get into drugs and
become hooked.
Reason six: As you know, we are presently involved in a life-and-death cultural war
between Christianity and secular humanism. When you patronize the enemy’s
institutions you are giving tacit approval of what that institution stands for. In addition, if
you have any understanding of the forces that oppose us, you know that they have
billions of dollars with which to fight us. So why give them your children? If you want
to win this war, the easiest, least bloody way to win it is by withdrawing your children
from their institutions. They cannot succeed without your children. It’s as simple as that.
So by giving them your children you are helping them tie the noose around the neck of
Christianity.
Reason seven: It is unreasonable to expect Christian children to be missionaries in the
public schools when they have not had professional training, are unable to answer the
arguments of their enemies, gain the contempt of their teachers, and become demoralized
in the process. You can’t expect children to do the job which even adults find difficult.
Reason eight: Satanists in the public schools have targeted Christian students for
persecution and even murder. That’s what took place at Columbine High School in
Littleton, Colorado, and also in a school in Paducah, Kentucky. In other words, Christian
children are at risk in public schools where Bible reading and prayer are outlawed, but
Satanism isn’t. Satanists have free reign in the public schools and your child may
become a victim of their evil force.
Reason nine: Children in the public schools are considered to be animals, because the
behavioral psychology that now governs public education is based on the theory of
evolution which claims that human beings and monkeys have a common ancestor.
Humanist behaviorists use animal training techniques to teach your precious child who
was made in the image of God. But the schools teach your child that he or she is simply
a higher form of monkey. When children accept the notion that they are animals, they are
apt to act as animals, without conscience, without a sense of moral absolutes.
Reason ten: Because of widespread educational malpractice in the schools, your child is
in danger of becoming learning disabled, dyslexic, or afflicted with attention deficit
disorder. Your child is in danger of becoming functionally illiterate. At least thirty
percent of the children in public schools emerge at the end of the process unable to read
properly, spell correctly, or do basic arithmetic. Do you have a guarantee that your child
will not be a victim of this educational malpractice?
I’m sure that I could come up with many more reasons. But these ten I hope will give
Christian parents enough food for thought so that they will make the right choice in favor
of God’s commandment. The public schools cannot be saved by Christians. Nor should
Christians want to save them since they have been rendered morally dangerous by
Supreme Court decisions and the likes of the National Education Association.
By withdrawing your children from the public schools, you will be making your own
declaration of independence from the satanic institutions that the public schools have
become. You will be exercising the precious freedom you still have to take control of
your children’s education. And by doing so, you will be preserving the heritage of
freedom to pass on to your children, and your children’s children.
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The world needs People Day more than Earth Day
Al Gore recently announced that he is refocusing his climate and energy efforts from the United States to the international arena, especially Africa. Like President Obama, he wants Africa to “leapfrog dirty fossil fuels” and have wind and solar energy power industries, businesses, communications, transportation, and modern healthcare and living standards.
Mr. Gore believes momentum on Net Zero climate action and renewables is “unstoppable.” Despite the Trump Administration removing the USA from the Paris climate pact and systematically reversing Obama-Biden Era climate and energy policies.
Despite the absence of even one community anywhere on Earth having been able to meet its electricity needs solely with intermittent, weather-dependent, land- and resource-intensive wind and solar energy.
Despite coal, oil and natural gas still providing 82% of total global energy needs and 100% of enormous petrochemical requirements. Despite China’s electricity generation alone emitting 2.5 times more carbon dioxide than the USA, and nearly one-third of the global total.
Despite millions of Europeans being made jobless and sent into energy poverty by climate-centric policies.
Despite hurricanes and tornados, floods and droughts not increasing in frequency or intensity in decades, and the number of people killed by weather and other natural disasters plummeting 90% since 1900.
Mr. Gore’s policies definitely benefit himself and the Industrial-Political Climate Complex. He certainly won’t move to Africa or give up his energy-gobbling Nashville or oceanside Montecito homes, or his SUVs, private jet travel or climate cash. But his pronouncements would certainly roll back industrialized-nation living standards and relegate poor nation aspirations to irrelevance.
In fact, they’re highly reminiscent of Obama science advisor John Holdren’s plan to de-develop and de-industrialize the West, and then tell poor nations how much development they will be “permitted” to have.
“Once the United States has clearly started on the path of [de-developing and] cleaning up its own mess,” Holdren wrote, “it can then turn its attention to the problems of the de–development of the other [developed countries] … and ecologically feasible development of the [under-developed countries].”
That’s why, this Earth Day, people everywhere – especially Africa’s and the world’s impoverished, malnourished, energy-deprived citizens – should observe People Day … and emphasize the energy and other resources people everywhere need to enjoy decent lives and safeguard our planet from the ravages that all-renewable energy would inflict.
Sub-Sahara Africa’s population has increased by nearly 500,000,000 since Gore’s 2005 “Inconvenient Truth” and over 1,000,000,000 since 1960 – to 1.3 billion today.
Excluding South Africa (64,000,000 people using 3,200 kWh of electricity per person per year), the average Sub-Sahara African gets a barely detectable 180 kWh annually. Compare that to average annual electricity consumption rates per capita in Europe (6,500 kWh) and the United States (13,000 kWh).
In starker terms, nearly 1.3 billion Africans have access to a trifling 1.4% of the electricity that an average American uses every year. That that means the average Sub-Sahara African has electricity 20 minutes a day, 141 minutes a week, 123 hours (out of 8,760) per year – at totally unpredictable times … for a few minutes or hours at a time.
Bringing abundant, reliable, affordable electricity to this vast region (3.2 times larger than the Lower 48 USA) will require trillions of dollars – spent on power generation systems that can actually do the job.
However, many African governments refuse to develop their vast coal and natural gas deposits to generate electricity. Their officials still fear and kowtow to Al Gore, UN and European pressure, and the catechism of climate cataclysm – while raking huge sums into private bank accounts from “climate reparation” and renewable energy grants.
Worse, European financial institutions, the World Bank and other lenders still refuse to finance fossil fuel development or fossil fuel electricity generation. Even pre-Trump Obama and Biden USAID (US Agency for International Development) programs “put the climate crisis at the center of U.S. foreign policy and national security,” and focused on compelling aid recipients to “transition” from fossil to wind and solar.
Thankfully, change is in the air. African people and their leaders increasingly recognize that coal, oil and gas not only fuel electricity generation, vehicles, cooking, heating and other necessities. Developing and selling those resources also generates billions in revenue that can be used to finance more energy and economic development – without having to beg ideological institutions for handouts, submit to their demands and restrictions, or remain mired in poverty, disease and despondency.
Following the example of China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam in driving hard toward modernity, Niger, Senegal and Côte D’Ivoire are leading the way in Africa. Guyana is doing likewise on the north coast of South America, even as Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro seeks ways to seize its oil fields. They’re all poised to ride oil booms, while South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and other African nations are breaking away from domineering, climate-obsessed banks and NGOs, to chart their own courses.
These countries are also beginning to realize that “clean, green, renewable, sustainable, affordable” wind and solar power reflects none of those concepts.
An African “clean energy transition” would require hundreds of thousands of wind turbines, tens of millions of solar panels and hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines across tens of millions of acres of Africa’s magnificent scenic areas and wildlife habitats.
Their massive raw material requirements would mean mining at scales unprecedented in history, much of it by countries, companies and artisanal miners that pay little attention to workplace safety, air and water pollution, mined land reclamation or other standards.
The installations, mines, waste dumps, and toxic waters and materials would destroy more habitats, starving, poisoning and killing still more of Africa’s unique fish, birds and wildlife.
Most of the manufacturing of wind turbines, solar panels, transformers, vehicle and grid-scale backup batteries, and other equipment would be conducted far from Africa, largely in China – resulting in still more global pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, while providing few employment opportunities or other benefits to Africa.
Africa would end up destroying Africa to save it from climate catastrophes that exist only in headlines, computer-models, and Al Gore’s fertile imagination. It would generate still pitiful amounts of expensive electricity only 25-30% of the year, as unpredictably as today.
I helped organize the very first (1970) Earth Day on my college campus, when the United States and other industrialized countries still faced serious air and water pollution problems. Since then, America and much of the world have enacted laws and regulations, changed public and corporate attitudes about the environment, installed amazing technologies, and cleaned up their air, water and land – while generating previously unknown and unimaginable health and prosperity.
Africa can and should do likewise. A vital first step is focusing on People Day and energy technologies that can actually turn their dreams into reality – instead of fanciful systems that destroy environmental treasures to “solve” exaggerated and imaginary climate crises.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate change and human rights issues.
Camp Constitution celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington
Camp Constitution celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington this past weekend April 18-19. We started with our 3rd Annual Homeschool Overnight at the Lane House, located a few blocks from the Green, where attendees observed the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere which ended at the original Hancock-Clark House where Sam Adams and John Hancock were staying when Paul Revere warned them that the “regulars” not the British were coming.” We returned to the Lane House for a few hours of sleep before walking down to the Lexington Green to watch the reenactment of the Battle of Lexington. This was the first year that VIP viewing passes and media credentials were few and far between. As a result, we didn’t get a good video of the event, but here is a link to last year’s reenactment:
After the reenactment, we went back to the Lane House for a hearty breakfast and a few hours’ sleep before getting our float ready for the Lexington Parade.
(Hancock-Clark House Lexington) (Some of our attendees in front of the Lexington Library)
The Parade Committee would not allow those with floats to hand things out to the on-lookers during the parade, but we did manage to pass our pocket copies of the U.S. Constitutions and information to those stopping by our float prior to the parade. Many took pictures of the float with our banners. A lady from Finland hoping to become a U.S. citizen thanked us for our efforts but lamented that most Americans know little about our Constitution. Another woman from Thailand who is a naturalized citizen shared the same sentiments.
Thanks to all who attended and helped out. A special thanks to Dennis Pierson for lending us his trailer, Pastor Steve Barberadt of the Black Robe Regiment http://www.blackrobereg.org/ for the use of his truck and marching in the parade, and Jonathan Swartz for his shuttle services.
He is Risen! “I know that my redeemer liveth” American Minute with Bill Federer
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President Trump’s Proclamation on the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Two and a half centuries ago, a small band of minutemen answered the call of freedom in the legendary Battles of Lexington and Concord, an epic tale of American strength and the first major armed conflict of the Revolutionary War. We honor the memories, remember the sacrifices, and summon the courage of every hero of liberty who gallantly shed his blood for the cause of independence on April 19, 1775.
After years of intensifying frictions and escalating hostility between the British Crown and the American Colonies, all avenues to peace and diplomacy had been exhausted, and it became clear to the patriots that war was inevitable. Following the Boston Massacre, the oppressive Intolerable Acts, and the lasting grievance of taxation without representation, the colonists began organizing militias as a final recourse in defense of their right to self-government.
The British regime’s reign of tyranny reached a breaking point when, in his fearless midnight ride from Boston, Massachusetts, Paul Revere announced the news that the Redcoats were marching to Concord, Massachusetts, to arrest Colonial leaders and seize American arms. By the time they reached Lexington at dawn, the British encountered 77 intrepid American minutemen, led by Captain John Parker, boldly standing their ground in defense of their independence. The surprised British fired a volley, mortally wounding eight American patriots — the very first American soldiers to lay down their lives for our emerging Nation.
The British ambush at Lexington became known as the “shot heard ’round the world,” prompting thousands of brave young men to leave behind their homes and livelihoods to fight for our freedom on the frontlines of the American Revolution — commencing the greatest fight for liberty in the history of the world.
Later that morning, the Redcoats arrived at Concord to find and set fire to patriot military supplies. At the sight of rising smoke from atop a lofty hill, the colonists believed the Redcoats were burning the town, provoking them to advance to the North Bridge. As Captain Isaac Davis, whose company stood at the front of the column, said of his soldiers gearing up to take on the Redcoats, “I haven’t a man who is afraid to go.”
As 400 daring militiamen descended down Punkatasset Hill toward the North Bridge, the startled British opened fire, killing 49 Americans, including Captain Davis. “Fire, fellow soldiers, for God’s sake, fire!” shouted Major John Buttrick of the Concord militia at the sound of the discharging muskets — sending the British running back to Boston in retreat in a resounding victory for Colonial forces. For the next 12 miles, the patriots relentlessly pursued the Redcoats, ambushing them from behind trees, walls, and other cover. As one British soldier is said to have recalled, the Americans “fought like bears, and I would as soon storm hell as fight them again.”
April 19, 1775, stands to this day as a seminal milestone in our Nation’s righteous crusade for liberty and independence. On this day 250 years ago, with the fire of freedom blazing in their souls, an extraordinary army of American minutemen defeated one of the mightiest armies on the face of the earth and laid the foundation for America’s ultimate triumph over tyranny.
Two and a half centuries later, their fortitude remains our inheritance, their resolve remains our birthright, and their unwavering loyalty to God and country remains the duty of every American patriot. As we approach the 250th anniversary of our Nation’s independence next year, we honor the valiant men who fought in defense of their sacred right to self-government, we renew our pledge to restore our republic to all of its greatness and glory, and we commit to rebuilding a country and a culture that inspires pride in our past and faith in our future.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 19, 2025, as a day in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
Little Ice Age: Wille Soon Time Traveler
Camp Constitution’s instructor Professor Willie Soon “goes back into time” to observe the Medieval Ice Age. This video is made avialb4 from Gorilla Science.
The Weekly Sam: Our Free “Alpha-Phonics” Cursive and Arithmetic On-Line Courses are Now Up and Running
After being unavailable for several months, our free Sam Blumenfeld’s on-line “Alpha-Phonics.” Cursive, and Arithmetic course are now up and running. A special th
The Blumenfeld Archivesanks to our camp newspaper editor Mark Affleck for his efforts to bring these resources back on-line
Here are links:
http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/alphaphonics/index.htm
http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/Writing/index.htm
http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/Math/index.htm
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Camp Constitution’s “Early Bird” Registration Ends May 1
Camp Constitution will hold its 17th Annual Family Camp at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH. from Sunday July 13 to Friday July 18, 2025. Camp attendees who sign up before or on Thursday May 1 will save $50. per person. A minimum deposit of $100. is required. A link to the camp registration: https://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/
Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Keith Hanson of Critical Dynamic, Professor Willie Soon, world renowned astrophysicist and climate realist, Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded, Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.
Guest instructors include Mr. Kurt Hyde, retired Lieutenant Colonel from the US Air Force, and election fraud expert. In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, and optional field trip and swimming, chess, gaga and corn hole tournaments. Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire.
Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free. The camp offers an “Early Bird” discount of $50, per person by registering by May 1.
For more information contact Hal Shurtleff (857) 498-1309 campconstitution1@gmail.com
Camp Constitution’s Most Viewed Video on YouTube: “A Republic Not a Democracy” by Dan Smoot
“A Republic Not a Democracy” by Dan Smoot has been our most viewed video-0ver 385,000 views since we uploaded it in 2017, but the vast majority of views have been over the past few years. It is an excellent and timeless explanation on what type of government the United States is. If you haven’t already, please view this short video, then share it with others and hit the subscribe button as well.