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Public School Hell: the Establishment of the Humanist Religion As State PUBLIC SCHOOL y! Momm ddy! Da me! HELLHelp the Humanist religion established as state church Meet these prophets of the communist-like religion dedicated to teaching atheism, sodomy, and same-sex marriage to our children Will you surrender your child to atheists in defeat, or engage them in battle? Who determines right from wrong? Is the Bible true? Is there life after death? DOES GOD EXIST? Learn how you can know for sure This is the free version of Public School Hell Please honor the copyright restrictions on page iv. Mom! Dad! Help me! Am I Gay? Public school children are in a war zone, and do not know what to do. Hesitate to rescue them, and they will perish. A fierce religious war is being waged in public school classrooms to drive a wedge between God-fearing parents and their children. If enemies infiltrate our schools and successfully seduce our children into atheism and sodomy, they do not have to engage us in a battle of tanks and canons. Indeed, if our own children accept the ideas of our enemies, then they become our enemies too! For it is the clash of irreconcilable ideas that make people enemies. When our children accept the evil ideas of our enemies the war has already been lost, for do we not go to war to protect our children from the evil ideas of our enemies? The most important idea of all is God. It is upon this idea alone that truth and freedom rest. Yet our enemies’ idea—that there is no God—is the idea being taught to children in public schools today. Therefore our fullest attention must be directed to our children’s education until we are absolutely certain that their minds are being molded by teachers who believe in the same God in which we believe. Without doubt, the fate of public education will determine the fate of our nation—and of our children. The enemy is smart. He knows that he can turn children against their parents and against God by getting them addicted to vile but physically pleasureable sins such as sodomy. This is why Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs are being started in public schools all across America. Children have never been in more danger. The enemy knows also that children grow up to be adults, and adults vote, and he is determined to shape their minds so that they vote his way, until eventually the enemy wins all the elections and defeats America without even firing a shot. Most Americans do not know their enemies. In fact, most Americans not only willingly submit their children to their enemies for brainwashing, but also vote to pay their enemies big salaries so that their enemies can devote themselves without hindrance to the task! Then these parents wonder why their children grow to despise them. Who IS the enemy? What does he believe? Why are his ideas wrong and perilous? Do you know? If not, both you and your children are in grave danger. That is why you must read this book immediately. i To my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ and to my country The United States of American and to All the American Chlidren and Their Parents ii PUBLIC SCHOOL HELL the Humanist religion established as state church Louis A. Turk, Ph.D. First Edition DAYSPRING PUBLISHER Oklahoma City, Oklahoma iii PUBLIC SCHOOL HELL the Humanist religion established as state church Published by: Dayspring Publisher LLC Oklahoma City, OK, USA http://www.dayspringpublisher.com All rights reserved. The PDF file of the “non-printable e-book version” of this book may be freely copied and distributed without written permission from the author, provided it is not altered in any way, and provided it is distributed free of charge. This means that it must be distributed in its entirety, including this copyright notice, not in part. This also means that you may not add anything to it, substract anything from it, or change file permissions without written permission from the author. The non-printable PDF file of this book may be downloaded free of charge from: http://www.dayspringpublisher.com and you are encouraged to post it on your web site. The printed book and printable e-book formats of this book may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author. Printed copies and printable e-book copies can be obtained from Amazon.com. Greatly reduced pricing is available for mass distribution of the printed edition before elections. For details see our publisher’s website: http://www.dayspringpublisher.com Copyright © 2008 by Louis A. Turk ISBN, print ed. 0-9779996-8-8 ISBN, PDF ed. 0-9779996-9-6 First Printing 2008 iv PREFACE One Humanist preacher boldly stated what they all know: “Every American public school is a school of Humanism.” Then he rhetorically asked, “What can the theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?” (Charles Francis Potter in Humanism: a New Religion). This book gives the answer to that question. Notice the word “every.” Potter said, “Every American public school is a school of Humanism.” Can this be so? What about the public schools in the heartland of America? Are they also schools of Humanism? The sad truth is, Yes, they are. Public schools are founded on a basic atheist idea—an idea so opposed to the teachings of Christ that public schools have never been, and can never be, truly Christian. This book will expose that wicked idea for the poverty producing, education destroying lie it is. Notice also the title of Potter’s book: “Humanism: a New Religion.” On page 3 of his book Potter wrote, “Humanism is not simply another denomination of Protestant Christianity.…It is a new type of reli- gion altogether.” Potter spoke the truth. Humanism is the religion that underlies communism. It is altogether different from theistic religions. Yet it has ministers and religious rituals; and it even enjoys tax exempt status as a religion recognized by the U.S. government. Notice also Potter’s question: “What can the theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?” His implied answer is, Nothing! He is totally confident that Humanism will defeat and bury Chris- tianity. Why is he so confident? Because Humanists are successfully exploiting a common weakness found in many people, including many Christians. You must be certain that this weakness is not found in you! Just what is taught in that “five-day program of humanistic teaching” that Potter believes will result in the eventual triumph of Humanism over Christianity? This book will show you what humanists teach, and what the end result of that teaching has been and will be. This book is filled with proof after proof after proof (1) that Humanism is the root problem with the Public School system of America; (2) that Humanism is the same pagan religion that underlies com- munism; and (3) that the Humanist religion is established as the state church of the U.S.A. in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That many parents do not even realize that there is an atheist reli- gion called Humanism, much less that its doctrines are being taught to their children in public schools, shows just how deceptively successful Humanists have been. Your children’s religion has already been chosen for them without you or them knowing it. However, it is not sufficient to know how evil Humanism is or even to know that it is established as the state church. Other writers before me have pointed out these things, but to no avail. Public education has been in crisis since the day of its founding. A constant stream of reforms have been attempted without success. The proper solution must be given, or else all efforts to correct the problem will be in vain—as they have been up to now. v All education is inseparable from religion. There is no such thing as non-religious education. Even secular education is intensely religious. Secular simply means that God is excluded, and that the religion is therefore deceitful and wicked. America is presently engaged in a fierce civil war of religious ideas between two camps which are diametrically opposed to each other and cannot exist together in harmony. One of these camps is eventually going to overcome the other. It is a war in which no one can take a neutral stand. Atheist Humanists are presently winning and have great momentum. Act immediately or there is no hope. Our children will be the spoils of this war. Read this book now. Many people have already lost their children to humanism. For them it is too late. Don’t wait until it is also too late for your children. Louis A. Turk Oklahoma City ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My deepest thanks to Ben Wattenberg, Charles McCombs, and Lawrence Smith for permission to quote rather extensively from their writings. Also, thanks to my sons, Samuel, Isaiah, and Caleb for proofreading the manuscript for this book many times, and for making many suggestions for improvement. Thanks also to my son, Joshua, for his math expertise in chapter 14. Thanks also to my parents for introduc- ing me to Christ at an early age, and for teaching me to value the truth.
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