I have said for years that the day the Christians went to the city councils back in the 1800s and early 1900s with hat in hand asking for money to build, feed, cloth, and or teach the masses, was the beginning of the end of this country.
God told us that we need to teach, cloth, feed, and love one another. While the Church did these things for the needy the church was able to also give the good news of Christ. Once the city became involved and then the state and eventually the federal government the church was left out in the cold.
Now the government does what we as Christians were ordained by God to do, but instead of sharing the good news of Christ, the state says man is God. Which goes right to the humanism that you speak of. Satan understood well what Christ meant when told the apostles and crowd in His Sermon on the Mt.,
"No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." Luke 16:13
Now the one they despise is the one whom they just get lip service from once a week, while the other is giving substance in the form of food, shelter, clothing, education, and entertainment. Who do you think the masses are hating and loving?
I agree with you about the education, and I would add that Christians need to be more like the Mennonites, at least when it comes to the way they refuse to allow the government any control over their children. That is why the children who have been home schooled are the apple of God's eye's in America. Upon them He will put the burden of fighting His battles in America for the hearts and minds of future generations to come. And, why they have a bulls eye on them by Satan's minions in the government.
I will check out the references you have given me, and use them to strengthen my resolve against the enemies from within.
God bless you my FRiend,
OV, Chuck Wolk
God's blessing to you as well,
Worldviewdad