True or False: The Constitution states there must be a separation of church and state.

Answer: False 

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion... reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington (from his farewell address)

Isn't it interesting how people will believe a lie long before they will believe the truth. Most people would be shocked to learn that the words quoted above came from our nation's first president. They would also be shocked to learn that the Constitution does not attempt to "protect" the state from the church. In fact, if the truth be known, the framers of the Constitution were far more concerned about protecting religion from the state.

Did you know that when Thomas Jefferson was President of the school board of the Washington D.C. public schools, that the Bible was used as a text book? This was over a decade after the Constitution. The document that he was so instrumental in creating. The document that is somehow supposed to forbid Bibles in school or prayers in school or any mention of our Lord's name in school, (other than in vain - this, our modern scholars assure us, is protected).  

Why is that, I wonder? Perhaps it's an accident of education... or perhaps it's the purpose of education.

You see, most schools don't even address Washington's Farewell Address, nor do most teach what constitutes the Constitution. So we end up with a student population filled to the brim with the knowledge of political correctness, but totally in the dark when it comes to the truth of the critical role that religion played in the founding of our nation. As a result, most students think that prayer to the Almighty in school is forbidden, while cursing with His holy name is perfectly okay. And we wonder why our nation is in the state that it is in.

So, what are parents to do? Perhaps they should start with teaching the truth. Too many parents think that this is the duty of the teacher, but the fact is that while many of our teachers would love to be able to teach these things, their hands are tied. So the teaching of these important truths will have to be done by parents, if they are to be taught at all. 

"The truth will set you free"

 Jesus (as recorded in John 8:32)