Historical icons they’re removing from our kids’ education

An article in the Federalist recently caught my attention. It highlights some things in Alaska that are not required to be taught. Such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Christianity.

In the Federalist, David Randall points out that political correctness not only infects the social studies standards in Alaska, but in many other states in the nation, such as Connecticut, Rhode Island and Minnesota. This is endemic, he pens: “Education departments in every state are on radical autopilot when they make social studies standards.”

In Alaska, the children are expected to be taught “action civics” and “protest civics.” Instead of teaching standard American history, they focus on identity politics and teaching indigenous peoples’ history, to the exclusion of our nation’s story. The radicals in charge of the standards of what is taught have no appreciation for our true history.

Look what Randall cites as noticeably missing from the curriculum: “The names of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln are absent. But so are words like Christianity, Protestantism, and Catholicism; any hint that technological advance might have improved Americans’ standard of living; and virtually all of the narrative, events, and heroes of America’s wars.”

Here we are less than a year away from America’s 250th birthday, and so many young Americans remain clueless as to what makes America great. In fact, they don’t think it is great. And they applaud the killing of someone like Charlie Kirk, who declared otherwise.

The immigration battle – including the now-closed borders and the attempts to extricate the millions of illegals who took advantage of the previously open borders – points out a fundamental reality. The traffic is always one way. People want to come to the United States, not the other way around. They’re not rushing to get out of here, but vice versa.

But it seems as if the Marxists’ goal to keep us from learning about our true heritage is on its way to being fulfilled.

Five years ago, when we saw that rampage of statue toppling, we saw many young people in our nation desecrating our history. Not only did they tear down statues of Confederate figures, such as Robert E. Lee (incidentally, one of the greatest military generals America ever produced), but they were toppling icons of mainstream leaders of America’s past.

It seemed as if no one was to be spared from the historical purging, not George Washington, nor Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, and so on. I remember seeing a political cartoon where one of these young radicals was asked why he was tearing down the statue of an abolitionist, and he responded, “What’s an abolitionist?”

The Marxists continue their long march through the institutions in America – including our schools – in their attempt to separate us from the source of American greatness. Ultimately, that source is related to biblical Christianity.

This rewriting of history reminds me of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984,” depicting life under a regime in which full-bore Marxism reigns. In this nightmare vision, the main character Winston is charged with constantly rewriting history. He constantly has to purge from the history books and the newspapers any politically incorrect items of history.

The rationale in “1984” is simple: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

And so we find ourselves in modern America where the Marxists try to prevent school children from learning about our true history. That includes the incredible role the Christian faith played in shaping the positive aspects of the United States.

Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both reared in the Christian tradition, eventually allowed themselves to be theologically corrupted when it comes to Christian orthodoxy.

And yet, even these two realized the positive contributions the Christian faith in one stripe or another made to the creation and sustaining of American liberty.

John Adams wrote as much once to Jefferson: “The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite. … And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence.”

Not only has Christianity been influential in world history, it was very critical to the creation of the nation. But alas, school children in various places, including Alaska (if the present trends continue) won’t learn about these things. They might not even learn about our Founding Fathers. “John Adams who?” “Who is Thomas Jefferson?”

As I’ve asked before: Will someone please wake me up when the era of woke is over?