June 27, 2005

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On a day when the Ten Commandments are is question, consider:

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt

Did You Know? Schools were originally set up by Churches for the purpose of Bible teaching.

In 1690 Connecticut established a Literacy Law with a fine of $25 (extremely considerable for that time) because children must be able to read if they are to read the Scriptures.

Also in 1690, Benjamin Harris' New England Primer textbook with a memorization rhyming alphabet was introduced using Scripture to teach reading and pronunciation. This Primer was reprinted and used for 210 years, until 1900. And Benjamin Rush warned if America ever removed the Bible from the classroom, all of our time will be spent fighting crime.

In 1781 Congress ruled that a new English edition of the Bible be printed and used by schools.

In 1782, the U.S. Congress voted in favor of a resolution recommending and approving the Bible for use in the schools.

Noah Webster provided the text book, History of the United States, used for over 60 years in public schools contained this statement: "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws." And " All the miseries and evils which men suffer from - vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war - proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."

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June is National Internet Safety month and the Advertising Council, in a joint effort with the Justice Department, has created an awareness campaign to alert parents and teens to the dangers of online sexual predators. http://www.komotv.com The new Public Service Announcements (PSAs) are available online at http://www.adcouncil.org. A report published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org found 87 percent of teens use the Internet. Of those with an online presence, at least one in five have received a sexual solicitation.

You can learn the chat related acronyms, slang & web lingo by searching online for internet lingo. For example: WTGP means "want to go private?" to a private chat room. ASL means what's your age, sex and location. And POS is one every parent should know. It means "parents are looking over my shoulder."

Islamic Group Calls for Use of Koran to Take Oath - An Islamic civil rights and advocacy group is calling on North Carolina judges to allow people to use the Koran when taking an oath, saying the use of the Bible exclusively represents "an inappropriate state endorsement of religion." >> Read Full Story

"Because of our lack of understanding, we have always viewed the spiritual world as that which is to come." Charles S. Price Two Worlds

All the while, the physical world, which is temporary, was created by the spiritual world, which is eternal.

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18

Some say: "Men wrote the Scriptures" or "Everyone interprets Scriptures differently."
The Holy Spirit inspired the Scriptures, and the Holy Spirit reveals the "deep things of God." (1 Corinthians 2:10-16)

"It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." Jesus - John 6:63