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Presque Isle High School Teaching
God Doesn't Answer Prayers - Man Does
By: David
Deschesne
Fort Fairfield Journal l August 30, 2006
PRESQUE
ISLE, MAINE - Back in the “old” days, High School English
students were taught the subtleties of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
pronouns, participles and tenses. However,
today, government High schools have rid their English classes of those pesky
parts of speech, boring vocabulary lists, proper spelling and enunciation, as
well as useless syntax and grammar studies.
Today, government High schools use so-called “English” class as a
tool to indoctrinate unsuspecting students into the new religion of Secular
Humanism - a subject far removed from the study of the English language.
Presque Isle High School is no different.
Starting with the brainwashing as early as the first day of school, some
PIHS English students were treated to a parable about how students in other
countries had been brainwashed by their teachers.
The article, written by James Clavell, which was condensed from Ladies
Home Journal, seemed to
indicate God doesn’t answer prayers - man does.
The article PIHS English students were treated to stated in part:
“The New Teacher thought a moment.
“Perhaps we should say a prayer now.
What should we pray for?”
“Bless
Momma and Daddy,” Danny said immediately.
“That’s
a good idea, Danny. I have another.
Let’s pray for candy.”
They
all nodded happily and, following their New Teacher, they closed their eyes and
steepled their hands together and prayed for candy.
The
New Teacher opened her eyes and looked around disappointedly.
“But where’s our candy? God
is everywhere, and if we pray, He answers our prayers.
Isn’t that true? Perhaps we
should kneel down as it’s done in church.”
So
they all knelt and prayed very hard. But
there was still no candy.
Then
the New Teacher said, “Perhaps we’re using the wrong name.
Instead of saying, ‘God,’ let’s say ‘Our Leader.’
Let’s pray to Our Leader for candy, very hard, and don’t open your
eyes till I say.”
So
the children shut their eyes tightly and prayed very hard, and the New Teacher
quietly put a piece of candy on each child’s desk.
She did not notice Johnny - alone of all the children - watching her
through his half-closed eyes.
She
went softly back to her desk and the prayer ended, and the children opened their
eyes and stared at the candy, overjoyed.
“I’m
going to pray to Our Leader every time,” Mary said excitedly.
“Me,
too,” Hilda said. “Could we eat
Our Leader’s candy now, teacher?”
“So
Our Leader answered your prayers, didn’t he?”
The story also went into detail on similar brainwashing tactics in other
scenarios, as conducted by that fictional teacher.
What followed the reading of that short story was a question-answer
series conducted by the Presque Isle High School teacher asking the students if
they thought it was possible for brainwashing to happen here.
The unspoken implication was: since our public school teachers don’t
openly engage in the tactics illustrated in that story, they don’t engage in
brainwashing - a supposition that isn’t entirely true.
The subtly-crafted brainwashing in that story is where the point: “God
doesn’t answer prayers, man does”
is presented and left unaddressed. There
was no discussion on how God can and
will answer prayers in His own time, based on His own judgment, according to His
plan - not ours - for each individual (nor would you expect a government school
to discuss those points). This left
the students - who are learning in an atheist public school environment to begin
with - to subliminally consider that unanswered idea as if it were fact.
Being young teenage students, they are not qualified to intelligently
answer the teacher’s questions on whether or not brainwashing could happen
here. Indeed it is possible - it
just did. Unfortunately, teenagers
have not studied enough History, Political Science, Psychology, Philosophy, or
Psychological Warfare Operations (PSYOPS) to be able to render an educated
opinion on the matter, or identify it when it happens.
This
tactic of continually asking for the student’s opinion, instead of presenting
facts, is used by facilitators throughout the public school system today; where
no absolute truths are taught (save Math class - numbers can’t lie), but
rather each person’s own opinion is a “truth” for himself or herself - a
tenet of the Secular Humanist.
The PIHS students, and quite likely the teacher, too, weren’t
sophisticated enough to realize that by reading that story, they were being
subjected to a brainwashing technique I have termed “Selective Cognizance”
where a point is made while leaving key material out in order to affect the
ultimate perception of that thought.
In Decision Making for
the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities, a
report written in 2005 by the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
and the Center for Economic, Governance, and International Studies, it states:
"...research
shows that individual decision makers typically omit key elements of good
decision processes and that their decisions suffer as a result (Slovic,
Fischhoff, and Lichtenstein, 1977).”
It is that omission of God’s good attributes and only referring to the
Almighty in a negative connotation that is the
brainwashing being implemented in government schools today.
Our world is ordered and predictable.
There are laws of gravity, time and thermodynamics, laws of physics and
of nature. While there are many
random events occurring in our world, those events all conform to a set of rules
- rules that must have had an author.
Rules imply power and can’t exist in a figurative vacuum.
If there’s order someone or something must be giving the orders.
Since God is either left out of the equation or called into question,
young impressionable students who are seeking to lend credit to the order our
world does have will look to the only option presented to them - man.
By turning to and crediting man for all of the order in the world,
government school students are then indoctrinated into the religion of Secular
Humanism, which is the worship of man as if he were god.
Students then learn to accept that
misinformation as fact.
Psychologist and researcher Robert Belli calls this unconscious adoption
of incorrect facts “Misinformation Acceptance.”
Belli’s findings suggest that misinformation may also interfere with
originally encoded memory in some cases. By
“interfere with,” he means that the misinformation either weakens or
distorts original memory, or it causes confusion about the sources of the
various facts that have been learned. (see Psychology,
Wortman & Loftus, ©1992 McGraw
Hill, p. 209)
Most would write off the subtle form of brainwashing found in our Presque
Isle High School English class’ story as trivial and non-influential to the
students’ thinking and behavior. However,
“In a lengthy series of studies, Nisbett and Wilson (1977) found that people
can easily make mistakes in assessing the impact that something has on their
behavior, especially when that impact differs from what they would normally
expect. Under these circumstances
people often maintain that a truly influential factor had no effect on them, or
they insist that a non-influential one was indeed important.” (ibid,
p. 220)
Government schools have wholeheartedly adopted the Marxist strategy of
abolishing “eternal truths, religion, and all morality.” (see Karl
Marx The Communist Manifesto,
Frederic L. Bender, ed., ©1988 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. p. 73) under the
guise of “separation of church and state” - a concept of which is not listed
in the U.S. Constitution and no law with that wording has ever been passed.
English class isn’t what it formerly had been.
PSYOPS and brainwashing are the social norm, while traditional English
criteria is all but thrown out the window.
Christians should be appalled that they are funding the public school
system’s religious indoctrination of Secular Humanism and subtly teaching it
to their Christian children.
For those interested in placing their child in a Christian school, there are two in the Presque Isle area - Dirigere Christian Academy in Fort Fairfield and Cornerstone Christian Academy in Presque Isle. Of course, Houlton has a flourishing Christian school, as well.
See rebuttal to the brainwashing at: Lord, Do You Hear Our Prayer?