[Rashputin]

Something I found out, oddly enough, when I was browsing through Thomas Nast artwork. It seems that he was a big advocate of public funding and control of education back in at that time, but the Catholic Church was dead set against the government run education system. They warned that any government run education system would develop into a secular and humanist system of anti-Christian education sooner or later. At the same time, the majority of non-Catholic Christians were all in favor of the state taking control of and funding all education. They didn't even want an exception that would allow any school run by a Church to be certified to grant a HS Diploma!!

It's interesting to look at the history of various debates that raged in society and how the various pundits at the time thought things would work. In this case, at least, the Catholic Church was completely correct, our education system has become exactly what they predicted it would become.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

It was really a no-brainer.

Government has no business doing anything but protecting us from other countries and each other.

The Protestant arguments were fraudulent because their whole purpose was anti-Catholic, anti-Jew etc. and seeking to impose a Protestant religious view on everyone through government. Most people were and are bigots of one sort or another looking to use government to indulge them, something not possible before about the 1850s.

Everybody wants to be Constantine. Government MUST be made too small for it. Bigots must not be able to use the state.

[Dumb_Ox]

Which website / book / exhibit of Nast were you browsing through?

I recently learned that a big Andrew Carnegie foundation decided to fund pensions for many Protestant college and university professors, on condition that their schools adopt a "non-sectarian" policy.