Published Monday, May 20, 2024

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BOB LINN

Standing on America's Foundations

I watched the Benedictine Catholic College graduation speech by NFL super-star Harrison Butker. It was twenty minutes of what in an earlier generation would have been plain vanilla Americana.

The outrage of the media and the call for the Kansas City Chiefs to fire him indicate the degree to which Christianity’s Americana has been eviscerated and its original Christian identity obscured by a new class of journalists and educators who have cast a mask of secularism over the American mind.

Our most public voices are believers in the Soviet concept of public life. And like all leftists, they will tolerate no one who contradicts their indefensible positions. Their intolerance of Christian truth is because the vacuous nature of leftist ideology withers in the presence of enlightened conversation. Such was Harrison Butler's address to the students of Benedictine College.

The Left will not allow a Christian to give a Christian message to a Christian college without calling for heads to roll.

We hear it in Oklahoma as well!

Among the most common chants of the radical leftists who vent their frenzied anger at Oklahoma’s Department of Education meetings is “separation of church and state,” a phrase from Vladimir Lenin’s 1918 Decree of the Soviet People’s Commissars.

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These Oklahoma Leftists promote the ideology of Lenin’s Revolution.  So do many members of the Oklahoma church community.

AS A REVIEW

LENIN

1918 Decree of Soviet People's Commissars

1 The church is separated from the state

4 The actions of the government or other organizations

of public law may not be accompanied by

any religious rites or ceremonies

7 Religious vows or oaths are abolished

9 The school is separated from the church.

The teaching of religious doctrines in all

state and public schools, or in private educational

institutions where general subjects are taught, is

prohibited. Citizens may receive and give

religious instructions privately.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

~Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

~Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Planks number one and nine above are voice loudly right here in Oklahoma because of the work Ryan Walters is doing do restore the Christian foundations of our American educational system.

These Oklahoma leftists teach in our schools, some hold elected offices in Oklahoma, and some occupy pulpits on Sunday morning.

Last week, Harrison Butker created a media frenzy by simply advocating a societal posture that recognizes that the children are the responsibility of the parents who must dedicate themselves to care for, nurture, and educate their children.  Certainly, someone must do it.    And more certainly, only mom and dad can do it.  And I can say with even more certainty that the government must not be allowed to train the next generation of parents, leaders, educators, and voters.

The separation of Christianity from the public

soul of American culture has warped

the lens through which academia,

media, and statecraft are viewed.

America’s founding was not based on the atheistic materialism of the Marxist tyrants who have left the stage of world history a bloody mess. American prosperity and liberty is based on its Christianity. So, it was quite natural, in 1848, for Horace Mann, father of American Public Schools, said:

Moral education is a primal necessity of social existence. Practical morals can never be attained without religion. Our public schools … earnestly inculcate Christian morals and founds its morals on the basis of religion [Christianity]. It welcomes the religion of the Bible. One of the moral beauties, of the Massachusetts system ... The Bible is in our common schools by common consent.

We may be in a worse place than Russia in the 1940’s. In 1968, Harper & Row published Solzhenitsyn’s veiled autobiographical novel, The First Circle. It is, in fact, an extraordinarily accurate depiction of his 1943 political imprisonment in a Soviet facility.  While the names are fictitious, they depict the actual people he knew in that prison.  

His novel provides the sense in which the perspective of the USSR on a Christmas day in 1949 (he was still in the same prison) is so much like the perspectives of many of those who run our government schools, those who command control of our journalistic presence, and those who manage our entertainment venues. 

About a quarter of the way into the novel, Solzhenitsyn placed a few telling words into the mouth of Anton Nikolayevich Yakonov, Soviet Colonel of Engineers of the State Security Service and chief of operations at the Mavrino Institute. Parroting the Soviet concept of freedom of religion:

They can bake their communion bread the way they please; they have their processions with the cross – but they should not have anything to do with civic affairs or education.

The posture of Col. Yakonov is the posture of the American media.  Our journalists have let us know we should despise Harrison Butker for his Christian comments at May’s graduation ceremony at Benedictine College on the banks of the Missouri River.

According to the American left,

Christians cannot even speak freely

within the four walls of the church!

Last week, Kansas City Chief’s Super-Bowl kicker, Harrison Butker, framed that which should be a cultural basic in any society.  He spoke of the vital tandem of mother and father and the immense importance of the roles each play in shaping the future of society.  He spoke of the necessity of shaping the American cultural landscape rather than being shaped by today’s secular version of Leninism.

In a day when the government wants to raise our children beginning at ever younger years, it is time the church formally speaks out as to the culturally appropriate posture of the women as those who nurture our children while in the home and of the blessings of the home and the family.

Butker’s admonishment was to embrace the responsibilities inherent in their gender roles and indicted society’s obsession with career over family. Addressing both men and women, he said:

How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.

He said this to the women graduating:

I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.  I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.  I’m beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.

He then urged the men to embrace their vital role as the leader of their household:

To the gentlemen here today, part of what plagues society is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our communities. As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in. This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence we see all around the nation.  Be unapologetic in your masculinity, fighting against the cultural emasculation of men. Do hard things. Never settle for what is easy.

Read the entire speech here.

Watch him give the speech here.

Harrison Butker made one

more thing clear:

Silence is Sin!

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