Reject God and the Culture Goes

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, June 20, 2014 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Good morning, Jim.  Two years after the Supreme Court defined humanism as a religion, prayer and Bible reading were banned in public schools.  That left a vacuum soon filled by humanist doctrines that reject God and contradict the Bible and U.S. culture.

When Humanist Manifesto I was published in 1933, the professions of the signers were not listed, but they WERE listed 40 years later, when Humanist Manifesto II was published in 1973.  Of the 262 people that signed the second Manifesto, 39 were educators, 7 were education-related, and 13 were religious leaders.  Those 59 supported doctrines that reject God and give god-like status to mankind who discard absolute values and decide for themselves what’s right and what’s wrong.  In other words, they rejected truth to promote and practice situation ethics, which is a humanist doctrine expressly stated in the Manifestos.

With the ouster of the Bible and prayer to the living God, situation ethics was spread into the school system.  To do that, values clarification and behavior modification were adopted to change student attitudes.  That was accomplished by using value-changing psychological strategies in the classroom without telling parents, despite the fact that psychiatrists and psychologists must have parental consent before including the SAME or similar techniques in the medical treatment of minors.

And that’s not all! When 141 people from all over the world signed Humanist Manifesto 2000, 56 of them were from the U.S. and 28 of the U.S. signers were professors or administrators from U.S. colleges and universities.  Everyone who signed any one of those three Manifestos indicated support for this statement: “What more daring a goal for humankind than for each person to become in ideal, as well as practice, a citizen of a world community.”

A Harvard professor of education and psychiatry revealed the humanist attitude in his address to a childhood education seminar in 1973 when he said: “Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural Being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.  It’s up to you teachers to make all these sick children well by creating the international children of the future.”

His comment explains why students are not taught national patriotism or to pledge allegiance to the flag, and why some schools are “world” schools, instead of community schools, and why children that believe in God and honor their parents are considered mentally ill.  Question: Who gave humanists the right to change U.S. children into international children devoid of belief in God, family values and national identity?  To my knowledge, parents did not give their consent, but their children were reprogrammed, anyway, and there went the culture!  For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.

Father’s Day, Celestial & Terrestrial

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, June 13, 2014 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Good morning, Jim.  Although my Dad went to heaven many years ago, I’m still grateful to Sonora Smart Dodd who founded Father’s Day in 1910 at the Spokane, Washington YMCA.  Her father was a Civil War veteran who raised his six children as a single parent in Spokane.

After hearing a Mothers’ Day sermon in 1909, she told her pastor there should be a similar holiday honoring fathers, and he agreed to observe Fathers’ Day on June 19^th.  She wanted it observed on her father’s birthday, June 5^th, but the pastor needed more time than that to prepare his sermon.

By the 1920s Sonora Dodd was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago and had no time to promote the holiday.  But she went back to Spokane in the 1930s to promote it again.  By 1938 she was joined by the Father’s Day Council, founded by New York’s Associated Men’s Wear Retailers who saw it as a commercial goldmine.  By the mid-1980s the Council wrote that “…Fathers’ Day had become a Second Christmas for all the men’s gift-oriented industries.”  Continue reading →