It is easy to see that the social upheaval this country is facing today began in earnest after our schools were stripped of their guiding moral standard in 1962. The amorality of our younger generation is reflected all too clearly.
It ought to be clear. You can't separate Christian principle from civic and public forums and expect things to be good. When you remove the standard of God's Word from our government and from the public square, the consequences are swift and tragic.
And we're not only suffering moral deterioration, academic achievement is in free-fall as well. Public High School student SAT averages have dropped over 80 points since 1962. Today, Christian school student averages are 80 points higher than that of the public school students.
Coincidence? I don't think so. But that's not all.
Even though Christian schools have only 12.4 percent of the student population, they produce nearly 40 percent of the National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, the top half of one percent of all students.
There is no question that we are now paying a heavy price for our banishing God from all government and public arenas. James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution, summed it up well:
"We've staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments."
Yet our Supreme Court declares that it is unconstitutional to pray in public schools. Even though the man that wrote the Constitution said it had to be that way.
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