The Dumbing Down of America

The Dumbing Down of America
Deut 6:1-7

Introduction

As we have seen over the last couple of weeks, America is in trouble

We see that we have become a people that call evil good and good evil

We have seen that America is being overwhelmed with the growing number of homosexuals…being taught early in life…touted as normal

Romans 1 showed us the state of America today especially in vs. 32 “Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”

But the question has to be asked “how did we get to where we are today?”

Well that’s what we will explore today as we look at “The Dumbing Down of America”

Read Deut 6:1-7 / Pray

1. A Tug of War in the Classroom

I can honestly say that it doesn’t seem like an education today is the same as it was many years ago

I want to show you a sampling of a test that we giving to students in 1895 in Kansas (Slide)

Grammer: 1. Give the nine rules of the use of Capital Letters
2. Define Case, Illustrate each Case
3. Name the parts of Speech and define those that have no
Modifications

Arithmetic: 1. Name and define the fundamental rules of arithmetic
2. A Wagon box is 2ft deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft wide. How
many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. Find a bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10%

U.S. History: 1. Give the epochs into which U.S. history is divided
2. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War
3. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the
rebellion

How many of you could pass that test?

Well what about today? Here are a few samples of some answers turned in by high-school students across the country

• A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle
• A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals
• Zanzibar is noted for its monkeys. The British governor lives there
• Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest precedent. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands
• The sun never sets on the British Empire because the British Empire is on the east and the sun sets on the west, as every educated person knows

I hope some of you are not saying…”And what’s wrong with these?”

Today in our secularist education in America we have a world-and-life view that was not prevalent in this country 50 – 100 years go

What view is that? A world-and-life WITHOUT GOD

When God is simply removed…He does not have to be denied…He just has to be ignored

And so they learn about a world in which God has been banished from life

In 1983 the prize winning essay “The Humanist” published by John Dunphy proclaimed “The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom…between the rotting corpse of Christianity…and the new faith of humanism”

The educational elite have systematically