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- From Dr Paul S Vickery
By Dr. Paul S. Vickery - History Prof., Oral Roberts University
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NWO Article 3
That reminds me once again of the Northwest Ordinance, Article 3. Many of the same men who participated in the construction of the government through the drafting of the Constitution and other founding documents and laws, also framed and passed this ordinance for the governing of what were then known as the Northwest Territories. That article defines the purpose of American public schools to be religion, morality, and knowledge, in that order. Granted, "religion" does not specify Christianity alone. But only a gross ignorance or self-serving revisionist distortion of history would pretend anything else could have been meant. That is to say, not Christianity as preached and practiced within its many denominations; but Christianity in its most general form - which, according to the Apostle, was "to visit the widows and orphans", to care for the sick and the hungry, to love (without succumbing to) one's enemies and to do good to those who do you no good. Also, to "study the scriptures daily" and to "reason".
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January 3, 2009 1:51AM
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