Pew Research Findings

The percentage of the American population that identify themselves as Christian has declined over the last eight years.

A Lot.

From 78.4% to 70.6%.

That was big news this week.

So was an article commemorating the 50 years that have passed since a famous photograph of amish children running into the corn fields to escape forced bussing away from their one room school to the local public school system.

These are connected. And it should be obvious.

I am a Christian. 100% sold out.

And the part of the population that no longer identifies as a Christian may have:

1. Never been Christian
2. Be a joiner, but not believer
3. Be apostate, having left the faith
4. Be brainwashed against the faith
5. So deep in sin that they barely see the light
6. Something else

Frankly, the percentage means nothing to me. You do. My kids do. My friends do. That's where the Amish kids and the choice of schooling is important. Without that choice, they aren't Amish, they aren't really people.

50 years ago the state was forcing kids into education programs. 100 years ago the Germans turned their children over to the State for education. 150 years ago Marx envisioned education as the way to return humanity to control.

The Pew study just told us that the plan is working. Be afraid, be very afraid.