THE FOLLOWING is an excerpt of a WND article (link to entire article follows), in which Carl Gallups was interviewed. The bulk of the excerpts include Carl's comments in that article.

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Government schools are warring on Christianity and real education, warns an education expert and one of America’s most influential Christian authors.

Pastor Carl Gallups and educator and author Alex Newman charge there is a deliberate and unified agenda to dumb down U.S. school children and remove Christianity from schools and public life. And both of them place most of the blame at the feet of John Dewey, the godfather of America’s progressive education system.

Gallups, also a talk-show host and author, also pins the blame squarely on Dewey, whom he calls the founder of the modern American educational system. The author of “Final Warning: Understanding the Trumpet Days of Revelation” told WND, “It’s well documented Dewey was a socialist. He plotted a deliberate strategy to dumb down the American public.”

The key to this effort, observed Gallups, was removing God and the study of Scripture from the classroom.

“The early school system was predicted on the belief that literacy was very important, not just to understand ideas but also so that people could read, interpret, and apply the Word of God,” he said. “Dewey and his cadre that agreed with him set out to destroy that.”

Gallups charges students who can no longer read Scripture and critically analyze complicated ideas are transformed from active citizens into consumerist drones.

“We’ve raised up generations of these children who believe they are nothing but souped-up gorillas who think life is an accident, who can’t read well, who don’t possess deductive reasoning, and who can’t think critically. There is a massive, deliberate dumbing down because our public education system was built with the agenda of creating worker bees, not citizens,” he said.

“We’ve raised up generations that don’t even read the Constitution. They don’t read the Word of God. They don’t understand how to interpret. And the worst part is, all of this is being done on purpose.”

Gallups urges Christians to resist federal control over education and stay engaged in the political process. Most importantly, he says, Christians need to put their faith first, especially when it comes to education.

“On a policy level, the crack cocaine which corrupts these local school districts is the federal money which tempts schools into abandoning their agenda and following the federal government. And that leads to further problems like Common Core,” he said.

“Christians have to stay involved with this. Jesus called us to be the salt and the light. But on a larger level, as with all these problems, our nation has to do some real soul searching, a heart check, a gut check.”

Gallups concluded, “We are living in prophetic times. And we need to turn back to God.”

Read ENTIRE ARTICLE at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/christians-called-to-resist-feds-grip-on-schools/#4zmXC9yVdh4B303a.99