“IndoctriNation” the movie

By Al Benson Jr. Just a day or so ago I read an article on the Internet about how a school principal in Oklahoma is harassing a Christian group at the school he presides over. The writer notes: “This demonstrates how afraid schools are of anything to do with Christianity” and the writer wonders how Muslim or Hindu groups would be treated in the same circumstances. Better than the Christians you can bet on that. On one thing I disagree with him on--the public schools are not “afraid” of anything to do with Christianity--they are openly anti-Christian and their blatant anti-Christian bias becomes more and more apparent to those who have eyes to see. One night recently I watched the movie “IndoctriNation” I was impressed and think every family who has kids in a government school should sit and watch this documentary. This points to what many of us have been saying for decades--the public school is anti-Christ and makes no bones about it anymore. Christians should sit and watch this movie, as many of them have their kids in public schools and then wonder why the kids leave the church when they graduate from high school. Most of them never figure it out, never even have a clue. This movie would be a shocker for them and might even awaken some of them from their bemused complacency. Over all the years that my wife and I had our kids in Christian schools or home schooled them our chief opposition came from Christians who thought our kids would be much better off in some “good” public school somewhere--one that had a good sports program and a good band program. In one church in Indiana we attended the minister even came and tried to talk us into putting the kids in the local brain laundry. He went home disappointed. I’d love for him to see “IndoctriNation.” After I watched this movie, which is about 90 minutes in length, I thanked God we had been able to keep our kids out of the public brain laundries in the various places we lived. Our kids got a Christian education. It wasn’t perfect because my wife and I are sinners, and we made mistakes along the way, but when I look at what the public schools are doing to kids, I am, again, thankful to the Lord that we didn’t sell their souls for the sake of a good band program! The movie starts off cataloguing the problems people see in public schools today and it travels in this vein for about twenty minutes. I thought, watching this part of it, that this is stuff most folks are somewhat aware of, and I hoped it would go a little deeper than this. It did not disappoint me. Colin Gunn, the man who did the interviewing in the movie took his home schooled family all across the country in one of those infamous “little yellow prisons” (school buses) as he interviewed people nationwide, school teachers, former school teachers, authors, parents, etc. There were several people in the film I know personally--Karl Priest, the head of Exodus Mandate in West Virginia, and Randy Murray, a former public school teacher in North Carolina. Both Karl and Randy have been teachers in the public system and both have written books trying to expose the system for what it is. One thing this film did was to expose the beginnings of the public school system--Unitarian/socialist beginnings. Sam Blumenfeld was in the film and he did a masterful job at this. Most Christian folks don’t want to think that the public schools they entrust their kids to were founded by Christ-denying socialists like Robert Owen or men like Horace Mann, a Unitarian who did not believe in the Trinity and who wanted public schools because he didn’t like the Christian schools in New England. Sam went into all of this. This kind of information is where the rubber meets the road and most Christians are not willing to take the ride. Better to leave the kids in public school and pray for revival there--only when it doesn’t come, who do you blame? Billy Graham’s son, Franklin, stood up for the public schools, saying he wanted to see “trained Christian witnesses” among the kids there so we “could take our schools back.” Rev. Graham should know better. Those schools were never “ours” to begin with. From day one they were the creation of the Unitarians and socialists and Rev. Graham should know that if he has done any homework, which appears doubtful. Bruce Shortt of the Southern Baptist Convention countered Rev. Graham’s proposal and urged parents to get their kids out of public schools. So did R. C. Sproul. There was one telling point in the movie that took place in West Virginia, where the textbook protest has never (thank the Lord) quite died out. It showed a man at a school board meeting protesting the obscene nature of a book his 11th grade daughter was required to read. As he went to read passages from it he was informed by one of the board members that he “couldn’t read that here” because it was a vulgar passage. Interesting that what is in a required reading book for an 11th grader in West Virginia is too obscene to be read out loud at a school board meeting. Does that begin to give you a vague clue as to what they are doing to your kids? One attractive young Christian teacher was asked to resign because she had mentioned Jesus to her fifth grade class--and she was asked to resign that very day, and was escorted by the principal out the back way so the kids would not see her leave--but leave she did--she had mentioned that unmentionable name, Jesus. That name is taboo in public school unless it is used as a cuss word. And then there was the classic shot of an official for a teacher’s union giving a speech in which he plainly stated that the agenda of his union had nothing to do with educating children--it was all about money and power. He was right. There was so much ground covered in “IndoctriNation” that I can not cover it all in this article. You need to see the movie. It belongs in every church library in the country. When I was first asked to write a review for it I wanted to know where folks could get it. I was told that it is available at http://www.indoctrinationmovie.com/about-indoctrination and also at http://www.americanvision.com/indoctrination/ Hopefully this will give you someplace to start. I found some information about it just from doing a Google search. Get this movie, watch it, and pass it around to folks in your church, especially if their kids are in public schools. They need to see this even if they’d rather not.