CEO Robert Bortins of the homeschool organization Classical Conversations exposed the historical roots of Christianity’s disappearance from the government school system in a recent eye-opening exchange on the podcast The American Tribune Live. Bortins contended that the effort to undermine, destroy, and ultimately replace Christian teachings can be traced back over 200 years in American education.
What’s more, Bortins argued that while Christianity can be seen as having a small resurgence in some red states, the government still controls what and how the message of Christ is shared, and often the message is relayed through secular teachers who have at best little understanding of the contents and at worst malicious motives to misrepresent them.
For context, Bortins and the host of The American Tribune Live – full disclosure: the writer of this article – were reading a comment from the live audience and a question arose about having had any conversations with people who had the Bible taught to them in public schools. The conversation was part of a larger dialogue of infiltrations of anti-biblical tenets such as social-emotional learning and how having prayer removed from schools following World War II as the beginning of problems in America.
“So that’s an interesting thing,” Bortins began in response, “because you hear a couple things from the older generation, like, oh, it all went downhill, and they removed prayer from public school. And so they removed prayer from public school, and then the next year, they removed, like, the Ten Commandments for two court cases. But that that didn’t happen out of the blue, like, you got to understand like, like the system itself, the public school system was designed for this end, to undermine family.”
It was here that Bortins dovetailed into a much-unknown facet of the history of the government school system. “So the guy who started the public school system in the United States did not. People don’t know about Robert Owen. He was fighting the trinity of evil, which he described as marriage, religion and private property. Marriage is ruined in the United States. You know, divorce rates are super high.”
“That’s why you’ve got all these kids that are, you know, in hurting families. You know, religion. I mean, it may have bottomed out. I know this past weekend, a lot of people went to church for the first time in a long time [after the assassination of Charlie Kirk], but that’s at an all time low here in the United States,” he said referencing the decline in religiosity, Christianity specifically, in the United States.
“And private property, you know, roughly 50% of Generation Z believes that socialism is a good thing, and so you can see that, as we pointed out earlier that it’s been wildly successful and so, and again, I don’t really want pagans who despise the Bible teaching Bible to my kids like, that’s like, a ridiculous concept. I don’t know where that came from,” Bortins added, emphasizing that just because you have the Bible taught in schools doesn’t mean the message will be accurately or honestly relayed, or that faith will deepen.
“And so, like, all this was set up intentionally 100 years before it actually happened. So it took a little while for parents to give up enough responsibility to the state for this to happen. But yeah, it’s putting and people also don’t know Protestant catechisms were in public school before they removed prayer. So they learned, you know, some of those catechisms as well, just to graduate from like third grade”
“So the system’s working again, wildly successful, and putting the Bible or prayer back in school may be a band aid, but it’s a band aid on a bullet wound, and the system’s literally killing our society,” he ended.
Take a look at the full podcast below, where Robert and Todd discuss the realities of the government school system and rise of homeschooling in America:
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