The Separation of Church and State Is a Myth
We’re told over and over about the “Separation of Church and State.” Let’s be clear — it’s a myth.
The public school system is a church. It was built by central planners who follow the religion of left-wing Sociological Darwinism. Their intellectual godfather? Lester Frank Ward — the man most responsible for merging natural science, social science, and ideology into the framework that still drives public education today.
Ward’s method— called telesis1— is the blueprint modern sociologists use in education and government to “speed up” human evolution. They claim to use science and data to plan and direct society — an educational dictatorship. Ward blended Spencer’s evolutionary theory with Comte’s positivism and meliorism, then added his own telesis to create a system where the state replaces God and man’s institutions become the highest authority. The goal? Use science to “fix” humanity and build a man-made utopia.
Simply put, Ward launched activist centralized social planning and became the intellectual muscle behind today’s welfare state. He despised laissez-faire economics. In his world, there’s no room for a free market in economics or education. His disciples have nearly erased free-market thinking from government, politics, and economics — using the school system as their delivery mechanism.
Christians Don’t See the Threat
Most Christians don’t grasp the diabolical nature of compulsory public education. They send their children into it, assuming there will be no lasting harm. They think “socialization” in public school is healthy — ignoring the drugs, sex, violence, and bad teaching methods. They don’t see that their children are being indoctrinated into the religion of the state — taught what to think, instead of how to think, and given a moral code that directly opposes biblical ethics.
The humanists running this system aren’t stupid. They made education free, then compulsory. They wrote the textbooks. They monopolized the system. Four or more generations of Christians have been raised in it, producing citizens who obey, conform, and don’t make waves — exactly as the sociologists intended. But as with any central planning, it has gone far afoul of their plans. The kids are no longer controllable.
The Goblin Factories
Every four years, Americans vote for a president, thinking a political “king” will save them from the very system that created the problem. This is statism at its core — the belief that the state is sovereign and man’s law is absolute.
From the goblin factories we call public schools come graduates who either:
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Enter higher education for more indoctrination,
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Join the workforce as mediocre, compliant employees, or
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Retreat to their parents’ basements.
The “best” goblins are groomed for leadership in government and industry. Others climb political ranks through NGOs and party machines. The rest struggle to find work, convinced they’re well-informed while remaining blind to their lack of creativity and competence. All of them, however, fulfill their assigned role in Goblin Society.
How to Stop Making Goblins
There’s only one way to end this: stop sending your children into the factory.
We need pro-liberty Christian men and women to:
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Get involved in local and state government,
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Deregulate and expand private and home education,
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Work toward ending compulsory schooling,
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Reassert biblical ethical truths in public life.
There is no neutrality. If Christians don’t assert their values, they will remain second-class citizens while the goblins run the show. But our district schools are different! You’re delusional.
The Path Forward
If we teach our children privately — grounding them in pro-liberty Christian ethics, leadership, and entrepreneurship — we can reclaim local institutions. This is how we bootstrap a recovery of the American Republic.
It starts at home:
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Teach ethics, respect for liberty, and private property (“Thou shalt not steal”).
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Teach the sovereignty of God over the state.
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Raise active community leaders who run for office, start businesses, and shape culture.
Lester Frank Ward, the father of sociology, empowered progressives to seize the public school system for humanist control. He died in 1913. It’s time to bury his legacy with him — and that begins with ethical education at home.
1. Petras, J. W. (1970), Images of man in early American Sociology, part I: The individualistic perspective in motivation. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 6 (3): 231,
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