Thorner/O’Neil: Saints’ football player draws fury from atheists

Why then were specific atheists furious with Brees' simple suggestion that some Bible scriptures be included in our student’s curriculum when and where appropriate? Scoffers didn’t just express their opposing views, they fiercely attacked and maligned Drew Brees for his suggestion.  They voiced hateful rhetoric at this amazing athlete and credible man, simply for making a personal, common sense comment.  

Perhaps it is because atheists do not want their children or yours to know that the Bible is filled with positive statements and amazing advice that applies to all of us today, just as it has throughout the centuries.  We know that schools, students, and our citizens benefited and prospered when the Bible was welcomed and taught in our classrooms.

Banning the Bible in 1962

Parents and American patriots have expressed the opinion that the quality of our schools began to decline when the Bible was banned from classrooms across America.  Was that a coincidence or could it be because atheists were concerned that teachers might be prejudice against atheism and atheists.  That would be a legitimate argument, but that was not the reason given for the change.  The intent of National Bible Day was not to proselytize, it was to recognize an amazing book that has survived for centuries and today remains the most widely read book in the World. That alone would be a good reason for our schools to allow students to recognize its value. 

Our youth need and deserve to know that the Bible contains excellent advice and wisdom, such as the differences between good and evil in our world.  It also provides amazing historical facts to readers.  It is the most-read book of all time, which should spark concern and serious questions as to why anyone, especially teachers, would want to ban it from our schools.  the Bible is not just packed with historical facts about people and places, it also has instructions and illustrations of what is universally considered right and wrong, evil verses good, with examples appropriate for kindergarten children, as well as college students.  Can another book compare to that?

Brees’ reasonable comments were welcomed by a majority of Americans, most of whom identify as Christian but also those of other faiths, and even atheists. That is largely because most reasonable people understand the importance of putting forth positive, effective morals that are universally considered best for all people in every society. The Bible provides amazing information that helps guide readers to know what is necessary to assure their prosperity, as well as what is necessary for a nation to prosper.   

Importance of the Bible

Our forefathers used the Bible as a teaching tool in schools. For centuries American children began their school day saluting our flag and hearing a Scripture verse from their teacher, until a leftist Supreme Court ruled in 1962 that prayer was no longer welcomed or even allowed in our public schools. 

Parents need to trust their children as well as their school officials, but parents tend to place too much trust in each of them.  For instance, most schools today teach explicit sexual information with little or no regard to the individuality of students’ level of maturity to the subject.  Schools do very little monitoring of a teacher's classrooms and/or what is actually being taught our children today.  This often results in mature questions asked by students in a room where many students are not ready for the specific facts or explicit conversation.  

As the school’s involvement in teaching sex education increased, promiscuity followed as did the rate of premarital sex. Without any firm dialogue to discourage sexual experimentation, unplanned pregnancies exploded.  When right or wrong becomes irrelevant to the individual, a natural consequence is to self-approve immoral behavior. 

It is critical that parents stay informed of what their children are being taught, so they can be part of their child’s awareness of the conversation. Parents must be as vigilant and aware of their child's school curriculum as they once were to prevent their children from running across busy trafficked streets. Both can be dangerous when abused.

Although schools don’t have the right to challenge any student's spiritual or political choices, some willingly choose this route, while others do so unintentionally.  Parents can inform the school if they want their child excluded from a specific class session, but the problem is the class material is not always predictable. The reason what is taught our children is exceedingly important can be understood in the popular quote from Abraham Lincoln: “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will become the philosophy of government in the next.” Not only did our schools change after new rules and sexually explicit curriculum were introduced, but our society suffered as well.

Consequences of removing prayer and Bible from schools

The exclusion of prayer in public places, and prayer and the Bible from schools, was the forerunner of the resultant moral disaster as follows:     

• Criminal arrest of teens has now increased 150% according to the US Bureau of Census;                                                                    
• Teen suicides in ages 15-19 years is up 450% according to  the National Center of Health Services;          
• Illegal drug activity is up 6000% according to the National Institute of Abuse;                                                                                     
• SAT scores fell 10% even though the SAT questions have been revamped to be easier to answer;                                                   
• Violent crime has risen 350%, national morality figures have plummeted, and teen pregnancy escalated dramatically.

Upon hearing the nasty rhetoric spewed against what was a common-sense statement by Mr. Brees, Laura Ingraham and other rational Americans defended Brees common sense, altruistic comments. The important question all Americans should be asking is why anyone would publicly malign a positive role model for making an excellent, factual, and positive proposal that would benefit our people and nation?   

Drew Brees as a role model

Drew Brees is an amazing role model who promotes all that is positive for our youth.  That specific leftists in the United States did their best to destroy this role model, simply because he shared his faith in God, is not just sad, it is a warning to all of us.  When anyone purposes to malign and publicly destroy someone because they don’t share the person’s opinions, all Americans should be concerned and the guilty person exposed   

Patriots proudly salute the American flag, and proudly state we are "one nation under God."  This is a unifying tradition that all American patriots celebrate.  Its amazing declaration stands for everything good, positive, powerful and wonderful among us.  It strengthens us individually and binds us as a nation of people when we proclaim those words, for it reinforces how proud we are of being a citizen of the greatest nation on this planet. 

We have many challenges in America mostly caused or created by those who do not honor our history or believe in the concepts of biblical values, but who Instead perpetrate the opposite of what has proven to be good for America and our citizens.  We do not need atheists telling us what is best for us to do, nor do we need them maligning our American heroes, especially those who have led exemplary lives.

This alone demonstrates the wisdom of Drew Brees’ suggestion to invite our children to bring their Bible to school and help promote the ideal being promoted for a holiday that honors our nation’s biblical ties and reminds students and their parents of the values inherent in the Bible, from which our Founding Fathers set forth a Judeo-Christian nation, if we can keep it.  

A fight we must win
At any one moment in history the forces of freedom are always just a tiny minority—usually scattered, disorganized, and fighting a desperate fight. On the other side are people for whom power is an end unto itself—exactly the ethos we are fighting against—and who have thus accumulated far more power than we. Kings and commissars. Moguls and the media. Politicians, potentates, and bureaucrats and apparatchiks of every sort. Much more powerful. Much more organized.   As such is easy to despair. In the vast middle are people too busy or too unaware to make a stand. And all too often, they either fall for the propaganda of, or become party to, the machinations of those who fight against freedom.

We’ve already been lucky enough to see great victories. Something like the fall of the USSR and the Iron Curtain isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime thing—victories like that are rare in human history. They are generational. And we got to be here for it!  We may, as we speak, truly be living through another great awakening and on the cusp of more great victories.  

But this won't happen unless we, as part of the minority, have the courage, the will to fight, and do our part to keep the candle lit to guard this nation from the howling winds that seek to destroy our Constitutional Republic, replacing our Judeo/Christian heritage with Socialism/Communism where government takes the place of God and God’s Word.

Another great awakening is possible in 2020, but only if we get out the vote to reelect Donald J. Trump.