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Our parents pay exorbitant taxes so we can be public-school kids. We have sports and stuff but mainly school is about important civics lessons.
We even get to go on these expensive field trips in nice buses, burning up expensive energy and making a carbon footprint, but it’s okay because we are special and it’s okay to break the rules when you are saving the country. And besides, it’s “education.” And “making a difference.”
This week we learned to hate thoughts. We also learned to hate prayers. We also learned to hate Republicans. Best of all we learned to hate guns.
We also played a game called “activism.” We form ourselves into an angry, bitter, hateful, mob. And then we perform these emotional tantrums in front of the media, and in front of weak, timid, easily-manipulated legislators. Civics is fun. We don’t get in trouble for screaming out hate. We get school credit for it. Our teachers say we get our way every time.
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?
Eph 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Eph 3:21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Serious numbers of migrants arrived in Massachusetts from 1630 - 1640. Roughly 21,000. By 1700 they had become 91,000. Their immediate priorities: having families, building farms, forming towns, and building institutions Old England never developed on local levels. But the new Americans didn’t just reproduce the country they left. They built institutions England didn’t yet have.
Year 1 — a seagoing vessel launched at Medford, 4 July 1631. The shipwrights had been sent out in 1629, ahead of the fleet.
Year 4 — representative government. Elected deputies sitting in the General Court.
Year 6 — Harvard. £400 voted for “a schoale or colledge.”
Year 8 — a printing press, the only one in British North America. Glover died on the voyage out; his widow Elizabeth moved the operation to Cambridge and got it running.
Year 10 — the Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in America.
Year 11 — the Body of Liberties, read aloud at every General Court.
Year 12 — the 1642 law: every ...
