How to Sneak Religion Into Government Schools?
Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI
Biblical Authority Ministries, December 10, 2024
Teaching Religion in Schools: A Six-Step Procedure to Get Religion in State
Schools
Teaching religion in schools can get a teacher or
administration in trouble, especially in our current culture. “Religion” is
seen as a bad word in state or government-run schools. Yet, religion gets
inserted into school classrooms all the time in clever and hidden ways.
Precious few are trained to spot it nowadays, and they just let it go.
Do you want to see how to sneak religion into
state-sponsored schools? Let me show you.
A Six-Step Procedure to Get Religion in State Schools
Step 1: Don’t try to put religion in all at once. Instead, introduce it with little bits and pieces here and there. In some cases, do it slowly and subtly so that people don’t notice at first. Once these small points are taught, it becomes easier because you have already convinced unsuspecting people of certain tenets of your religion, and they don’t even realize it.
Step 2: Understand what your endgame really is. You
are not merely inserting a few small pieces of religion into a local school or
a particular classroom to influence a few students. Your goal should be to
convert the entire system to your religious belief. This is a big goal but
doable. By intertwining religion into the entire state school system, sweeping
changes must occur, and it takes time. Religion still needs to be inserted
slowly and subtly, not just in the classroom but in textbooks. You also need willing
teachers to defend these small bits and pieces of your religion.
Step 3: This step is crucial. You need to actively
convince people that what you are inserting into schools' textbooks and
educational materials isn’t religious but another “respectable” subject. In
fact, don’t even call it a “religion” to your colleagues so as not to draw
attention to these religious beliefs and tenets. Instead, call these religious
bits and pieces something else—like “history,” “science,” “models,” or “what
the experts are saying.” Just never equate these religious tidbits with a religious
position. If you do, chances are you’ll be caught quickly.
Step 4: Whenever someone challenges these religious
positions, you need to turn it around on them. Point out that they are actually
the ones promoting a religion and exclaim, “How dare they!” Draw attention away
from your religious positions that you are inserting into the classroom and
attack their position as religious.
Don’t hesitate to call out current beliefs that are already
in the school and label them as religious positions, demanding their removal so
the kids can have an “unbiased” education. Use phrases like “science vs.
religion” or “real history vs. faith.”
Threaten lawsuits and even go to court offensively if
necessary. In doing so, you deflect the attack on your religious position and
put the onus on the school system to show how their views aren’t religious;
otherwise, these opposing positions need to be removed from the curriculum. Few
administrations have ever wanted to take up that fight, and they usually cave
quickly. It’s a clever way to make your religion the standard while removing
others’ beliefs without them even realizing it. Essentially, you are eliminating
the competition.
Step 5: Once you have a strong foothold in the
education system, you need to mobilize to defend it. Try to get elected
officials who support your religion (in subtle ways, of course) onto school
boards as leaders, teachers’ unions, and writers in textbook companies, and
elect local and state officials who back your view. Even try to get people who
you would think were on the opposite side of the fence from you to compromise
what they believe and syncretize their beliefs with tenets of your religion.
This causes confusion on their front and only helps you.
At the same time, remove any classes, edit textbooks, and
courses that may go against your religion. Sanitize all other subjects as well
to only have your religious belief presented in the school system. Again,
remember to never reveal that what you are teaching is religion. Sometimes,
this means to stop teaching people how to think and replacing that
philosophy by telling students what to think. Then you are subtly
discipling students to follow your religious view without question.
Now that you have the schools supporting you, continue
getting teachers [who hold to your religion] into the unions and push more and
more teachers who support your religion in the local classrooms, starving out
those who have openly professed other beliefs.
Try to get people in positions that only give out grants and
educational funding to schools, professors, and research projects that align
with your religion, while continuing to attack any other belief system that
doesn’t support your religion that may be entertained in the school system. But
again, never call your religion a “religion.” This is very important.
Step 6: Once you have your religion firmly embedded
in the culture of the school system, you can openly state what your goal has
been all along. You can reveal that you have a faith, but by now it is so
embedded that few have the resources and power to oppose you. It would be like
your opposition fighting on every stairway up a tall building.
Does this really work?
Yes. This formula is exactly the tactic that evolutionists used to get their secular humanistic religion permeated into the school curriculum, textbooks, and overall education at all levels of state education. Let’s look at this historically.
Step 1: Evolutionary adherents never tried to insert
their religion into the government school system all at once. It was done with
little bits and pieces over long periods of time. They inserted tenets like
geological evolution first (long ages—which began in the early 1800s in
classrooms), then animal evolution (by the 1870s, this permeated universities),
and then human evolution (by the 1920s, long ages, animal evolution, and now
human evolution were being taught).
Step 2: The goal of the evolutionary religious camp
was never to simply tell a few students about evolution. They wanted to take
over the entire school system to teach their religion. By getting your tax
dollars to support their religion, they made out well.
You need to understand that modern education was largely a
Christian endeavor, being a Christian concept in the first place, going back to
Robert Raikes’ Sunday School movement that then transformed in the public
school system—an outreach of the church to teach and train. The results
transformed society with so much good that the government began funding it.
As the government seized more control of the school systems
it was easier for the secularists to gain access and control of it because it
was no longer an outreach of the church. As they did, the focus shifted for
their purposeless religion that teaches that everything came from nothing and
that nothing matters. Teachers purposed themselves to openly teach and defend this
purposeless religion in schools. Textbooks added these religious tidbits like millions
of years and evolution. It was all going to plan.
Step 3: Did the evolutionists tell people they were
being religious? Not at all! In fact, this was done so cleverly that people,
for over century, didn’t realize this was a religious attack being imposed on
the students. Some noticed, but largely, their sparks were snuffed out.
Cosmological evolution (the alleged evolutionary origin of
the heavens, matter, space, etc.) and chemical evolution (life allegedly coming
from non-life, which violated the Law of Biogenesis) now joined
geological (alleged millions of years of geological rock layers slowly forming)
and biological evolution (alleged changes from a single-celled organism to what
we have today) as tenets openly taught in the classroom. Repeatedly, teachers
and textbooks constantly called the religious tenets of evolution “history” or
“science.”
This may sound strange to modern observers, but no ancient
historians ever said or recorded any of the alleged evolutionary history that
evolutionists say is history! For instance, the “Out of Africa” evolutionary
religious position that Darwin taught originated with him; it doesn’t come from
ancient historians, by the way. It’s just a modern religious belief imposed on
people today who have been deceived into believing it.
The Big Bang (the most common form of cosmological
evolution), millions of years, chemical evolution, and “changing of a
single-celled organism into a human” cannot be observed and have never been
observed or repeated. Thus, it is not science because science is observable and
repeatable! And yet these evolutionary religious perspectives are commonly, yet
erroneously, called “science” to this very day.
Step 4: A common tactic from evolutionists of the
past (and even the present) is when evolution is questioned, they immediately
turn it around and say that those questioning it are being religious and trying
to insert or push religion. So, thinking logically about their false religion is somehow being “religious” from their perspective. It’s just a distraction to
the fact that secular humanism is a religion—and many teachers were being
convinced that secular humanism wasn’t a religion which made this so much
easier.
But notice how few people point out the logical fallacies in
the evolutionary religion.[1]
Did you ever wonder why? In the 1950s, when evolution was being taught to
students, those students would go into logic class and immediately see the
fallacies of an evolutionary worldview. So, what happened? The evolutionary
camp effectively removed logic from the curriculum and it only exists as a rare
elective in some places to this day. Remember the tactic: "Remove that
which opposes your religion.” Kids were now taught what to think, not how
to think.
Evolutionists even went to court to defend their religion
with the famous Scopes Trial in 1925. Though they lost the case, they cleverly
set a precedent to remove God and the Bible from the classroom (education is a
Christian concept, by the way) and slyly deceived people into believing their
view wasn’t religious.
People didn’t realize that both views were religious—while
Christianity is logical and sound (and the basis for education in the first
place), the evolutionary position is illogical and unsound. For instance, in
the evolutionary religion, which is based on naturalism and materialism, then
logic—which isn’t material—can’t exist; but neither can knowledge,
intelligence, truth, love, or science because none of these are material
either!
Nevertheless, Christianity was slowly removed to the point
that by the 1960s, the Bible, prayer, and hosts of Christian principles were
removed from the classroom. However, not all of Christianity was
removed—educational institutions still exist (again, education is a Christian
concept), students and faculty still adhere to the Christian doctrine of
clothing, and they regularly close for Christian holidays like Saturday
(Sabbath) and Sunday (The Lord’s Day).
Interestingly, schools tend to like Christian morality—like
not lying, cheating, raping, stealing, or murdering—but with the kids being
taught contradictory secular morality at these institutions, there are immense
problems in state classrooms all the time (school shootings, lack of effort, sexual
attacks, child murder, etc.). State schools are almost an embarrassment in the
Western world, where students struggle to discern basics like if they are male
or female today.
Step 5: After the evolutionists took control of the
education system in America (and elsewhere), they convinced textbook companies,
politicians, teachers’ unions, and teachers to embrace this religion
wholeheartedly. They have forced out Christian teachers one after another. They
have been getting compromised Christians to sign off on evolutionary views—even
Darwin did this in the late 1800s with Asa Gray, a Christian who he convinced
to follow the evolutionary religion and just add God to it.
Today, hosts of evolutionary believers simply tack God onto
their belief system. There are organizations that exist today that mix
evolution and the Bible (i.e., syncretism), thinking this a good idea (e.g.,
mixing Christianity with tenets of the religion of secular humanism like
evolution, big bang, etc.).
Government funding is almost exclusively given to
evolutionary researchers, and tax dollars are regularly given to
evolution-based schools. The evolutionary religion (various forms of secular
humanism) has free rein at each level of education funded by the government as
the state-established religion. And yet, few have any clue that it is a
religion—even those who were taught it. They were convinced of this religion
without ever being taught it was a religion. Maybe you have been as well.
Step 6: By the 1980s, the religion of humanism was
dominant in education all across the Western world (and remains to this day).
Popular evolutionists, like John Dunphy (an atheistic evolutionist), were bold
enough to reveal the goal all along. The evolutionists had control of the
classroom, education, textbooks, and government support, so now nothing could
seemingly stop them from revealing their hand. Here is what evolutionist John
Dunphy said in the 1980s:
“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 the 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 the
educational level—preschool, day care, or large state university. The classroom
must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new—the
rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and
misery, and the new faith of humanism.”[2]
Yes, he just put it right out there—the secular humanistic
evolutionists were trying to remove the religion of Christianity and replace it
with the faith and religion of humanism, and they cleverly did it. How many
people reading this were influenced by the religion of humanism with tenets
like millions of years, the Big Bang, and evolution? I was. I bet many of you
were too.
Notice that the evolutionists cleverly convinced people that
it was their view vs. religion—Yet it was religion vs. religion the whole time.
The real question is which one is the true religion? Since materialistic
religions can’t consistently (within their professed religion) explain immaterial
concepts like truth, then it is false.
Conclusion
What we need to do, first and foremost, is to recognize that
secular humanism (e.g., atheism, agnosticism, naturalism, evolutionism) is a
religion with a lot of money and adherents permeated throughout the school
system. Why is it that this religion gets free tax dollars and free rein in
the government classroom that says they don’t promote religion?
The reason is simply that most people have been deceived
into thinking it is not a religion. I feel sorry for people who were deceived
in this way. Perhaps this short article (yeah, I could have written a whole
book on this! 😊) will wake people up a little to “recognize”
this religion in government schools.
If I can be bold, in many places around the USA, education
today has become a bit of a joke. If you, your kids, and grandkids are in the
secular education system, perhaps you need to reconsider that. It is failing
because the religious tenets being taught in these secular institutions lead to
hopelessness. If everything came from nothing (e.g., the Big Bang) and nothing
matters, why do you think kids don’t care about their education?
Education is a biblical concept from the pages of Scripture
(e.g., Exodus 18:20, Proverbs 22:6, etc.). Obviously, other religions can
benefit by borrowing education, but it won’t do very well without God and His
Word. It’s time to question the religion of evolutionary secular humanism and
its many tenets that permeate our society. Now for the really big question—what
can you do to help remove this religion that parasites your tax dollars to
permeate the school system?
