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Please remember that the Progressive Utopians are responsible for our nation establishing compulsory attendance government K-12 schools.

And also remember that the original purpose of mandatory K-12 schooling was to "christianize" the Catholics.

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And also remember that the original purpose of mandatory K-12 schooling was to “christianize” the Catholics.
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Yep!

What the Progressive Utopians failed to realize were three things:

1) Due to the large number of Protestant sects any Christianity offered up in government schools was by necessity a lukewarm pablum that could be swallowed by all. Well....We know what Christ thinks about lukewarm Christianity.

2) By the 1960s the Protestantism that the progressives wanted to impose on Catholics was reduced to a 2 minute Lord's Prayer and scripture verse during homeroom time. The rest of the curriculum taught from a thoroughly godless worldview perspective.

3) Any government powerful enough to impose a lukewarm Protestantism on other people's children ( and make taxpayers pay for it), is powerful enough to impose a godless Marxist-fascism on them! ( and make the taxpayer pay for it.)

Wilberforce ( and his U.S. sympathizers and colleagues) would be horrified if he could see what became of compulsory government education.

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And also remember that the original purpose of mandatory K-12 schooling was to "christianize" the Catholics.

Do you have a reference?

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By the way, John Neumann was a great man. My husband and I were educated in tuition-free Catholic K-12 schools.

Although we have been members of a Protestant religion for almost 30 years now, we must acknowledge John Neumann's remarkable leadership and contribution to the U.S. Catholic and general culture.