Mission : All local School Boards offer a Thanksgiving to Christmas opt in class teaching Christmas is the birth of Jesus, the birth of our Judeo-Christian traditions.
(Per Supreme Court guidelines, the California State Board of Education Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum has opened the door to public schools teaching Americanism moral values grounded in Christmas celebrating birth of Jesus, the birth of our Judeo-Christian traditions. Objecting parents may opt out.)
Initial Goal - School Board: Adopts the Americanism Tree in concept. Erases “Winter Break” from School calendars - inserting “Christmas Vacation.”
Initial Goal – City Council: Adopts the Americanism Tree in concept. Resolves that from Thanksgiving to Christmas, in the public square, it be celebrated that Christmas is the birth of Jesus, the birth of our Judeo-Christian traditions.
Share our Why-To How-To book, Jesus Legalized (Amazon, $12.50), with influecerss A Problem
Ramadan is a holiday that celebrates Mohamed and more and is recognized by School District and City calendars as Ramadan.
Hanukkah is a holiday that celebrates Abraham and more and is recognized by School District and City calendars as Hanukkah.
Christmas is a holiday that celebrates Jesus and more and appears on School District and City calendars as Winter Break.
Teach the Tree
Nativity Scene (Love loves compromise. Hate hates it.)
This symbolizes the Jesus message of “love God love your neighbor as yourself.” It was a new concept The rule of the jungle was the guy with the biggest club ruled. The Declaration says, “All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights …” The Creator (God) says my neighbor has rights even if he does not have a club. But, I am my neighbor’s neighbor. That means I have rights even if I don’t have a club. This is the seed that flowers into the art of compromise – fundamentally essential to our democracy. And, it is also the basis of the Jesus ethical system. A system of morals that glorifies truth – my word is my bond. Then there is the democracy need for rule of law. Again, supported by love of neighbor. The simple truth is: The Nativity Scene is the most important of all symbols: The probabilities are, if Jesus is not born, Amerinism would not have been born atall.
Ethical System (Moral duty to others.)
It took until 1776 to apply the Jesus message to a new government. He brought moral duty; conscience; t individual responsibility: all foundational to self-government. The Founding Fathers believed iin the Jesus ethical system. Jefferson and Franklin and others thought it the greatest ethical system ever created, and used it in the new government. Which is good. Me and my neighbor have a better chance of achieving life liberty and pursuit of happiness if we are ethical to each other – rather than un.
New Order of the Ages (Moral duty to country)
(The fact that a new social order was being created was well understood by the Founding Fathers. On the back of the One Dollar Bill is the Great Seal of the United States with the wordsNovus Ordo Seculorum - Latin for “New Order of the Ages.” The Great Seal was adopted before the Constitution was adopted.) America’s new order is self-government with rulers deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. The Founding Fathers created a Constitution. The purpose of the Constitution is to protect us from our government. It does not tell how a moral life should be led. It was assumed the population would lead a moral life based upon the guidelines of the Jesus Ethical System grounded in our Judeo-Christian heritage - a social order known as Americanism .
Culture of Lawfulness: (Self government, by the people, needs moral values in the people – or it won’tt work.)
Unless there is the voluntary following of the law by the vast vast majority of the population (say 85 to 90%) Americanism can’t work. There’s simply not enough police, or jails, or judges or lawyers to stop crime while protecting everybody’s unalienable rights of life liberty and pursuit of happiness,. Americans are not born with a culture of lawfulness. Societal rules are learned/. It would be helpful to have the Judeo-Christian moral values taught in public schools –like it was when your grandfather went to public school.
Establishment of Religion: The Pope says public schools should teach moral values in partnership with families. President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission supports teaching moral values, replacing the wall between church and state with bridges of religious values. The U.S. Supreme Court allows religious moral values in public schools if parents can opt out and schools provide accommodations.Americanism Tree is a bridge for parents who object to a school's moral or non-moral teachings.Visit our website. Download the Americanism Tree (free). Share our Why-To How-To book, Jesus Legalized (Amazon, $12.50), with influencers.
More to Come
Background: Teaching religious beliefs in public schools has been approved for many states by recent United States Supreme Court decisions, Which includes the right of dissenting parents to opt out.
Mission: In California's Cities and School Districts celebrate and teach the Americanism Tree from Thanksgiving to Christmas of each year.
Action: To join with the Evangelization efforts of California’s nine Catholic Diocese and two Archdiocese and their 1125 Perishes in urging local School Boards and City Councils to approve the Americanism Tree and it's principles and moral values, Including the Jesus Ethical System wrapped in our Judeo-Christian heritage.
Goal: To make available through Amazon (With funding as available) for Local Influencers Various tools to assist in their efforts, including:
* Jesus Legalized - our easy to read 92 page why-to how-to legal based book on getting Jesus back into the public square;
* Americanism cats Tree garden, and other types of, flags;
* Introductory Americanism greeting cards.
Local Influencers: At least one local influencer be appointed in each of California’s Catholic parishes. They will join with local influencers of neighboring parishes to seek action from local School Boards and City Councils including:
* Teach and celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus, the birth of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage;
* Changing government calendars from “Winter Break” to “Christmas Vacation;”
* Approve Nativity Scenes in public places;
* To adopt Americanism Tree flags approving them in public places, including public schools, from Thanksgiving the Christmas each year;
* To approve Americanism moral values including the Jesus Ethical System and our Judeo-Christian heritage be given appropriate time in public places, including public schools.
Prayer
If America’s democracy (history’s first and greatest) is to be united and saved it will be done by again teaching, celebrating, and embracing America’s basic values each to each other as directed by our Judeo-Christian traditions grounded in love of God and love your neighbor as yourself. Those traditions were ignored by California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum and replaced by Mayan chants, Indigenous gods, Kwanzaa, and more. For the first time in three generations, however, the adoptions of the Model Curriculum and recent U. S. Supreme Court cases have opened the door for the legality of putting the Judeo-Christian moral values back into the public square, including public schools. Let us pray that this book assists the readers and others in supporting local School Board and City Council members in voting that the American values underpinning our democracy, symbolized by the Political Education Teaching Tree, be granted equal time in public places, including public schools. Let us further pray that those principles continue to protect the rights of all Americans in the free exercise of religion or no religion, which rights were first created by the government of the New Order of the Ages is on that wondrous Fourth of July in 1776.
Background: Many States, like California, have opened the door to public school teaching religious principles. Among other things, California adopted an Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum grounded in Indigenous gods, Mayan chants, Kwanzaa, and more. (Legislative approval to teaching Kwanzaa obviously opens the door to teaching Christmas.)
Hello School Boards, Our nonprofit’s Thanksgiving to Christmas Lesson Plan: Symbolized by The Tree, grounded in our soon to be published book From Woke to Woken, features Christmas as the birth of Jesus, the birth of America’s shared biblical morality, of its new order of the ages.
Did you know that: * The Supreme Court erased the wall between church and state.
* Each of California’s 1109 School Boards now has the power to vote to permit teaching our Thanksgiving to Christmas lesson plan in their schools. Allowing objectors to opt-out (Mahmoud v Taylor).
Hello City Councils, They’ve been kicking Jesus out of the public square since the 1960s when they started banning nativity scenes in public parks. But, the ultimate erasure was California’s 882 page Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum promoting moral values like love, hope, respect, solidarity, but neglecting to mention the Bible or or the Hebrew Profits - or Jesus, the most notable moral value teacher in the history of Western Civilization.
Executive Order: Support "Patriotic Teaching." President Trumps executoive order threatens loss of federal funding. Support of The Tree should help showig your support of Patriotic Teaching.
* Support From Woke to Woken (Soon to be published)
* Thanksgiving to Christmas: Support the Teach the Gifting Tree Lesson Plan as an addition to the School District's Ethnic Studies Curriculum.
* Embrace the Gifting Tree Flags: The Founding Fathers Gifting Tree symbolizes the foundational values of America. Celebrate with the flying of the Gifting Tree flag at City Hall, and with the urging of public display of garden flags throughout the City.
* Change Your City Calendar: Erase “Winter Break” and reinsert “Christmas Vacation.”
For Other Interested Parties: Get involved! Contact your School Board, your City Council - Contact us - bud@stjudeoninternet.org
Background "Jesus love can unite us,” is the essence of Pope Francis’ new Encyclical (Dilexit Nos, Oct 23, 2024). In America's Founding that uniting message (love God, love your neighbor as yourself) joined with the Biblical Prophets to create a Judeo-Christian “New Order of the Ages" government. (See: Great Seal of United States on One Dollar bill “Novus Ordo Seclorum" - Latin for “New Order of the Ages.”) That message has been erased from the California State Board of Education Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, replaced with Mayan chants and Kwanzaa, and more. The Pope’s Encyclical urges it is the privilege and duty of each of us to meditate, celebrate, and teach Jesus love now, before it is too late. In California that necessarily includes the right to equal time with the study of Mayan chants and Kwanzaa for the study of our Judeo-Christian heritage with its Jesus love of neighbor message. Our soon to be published book, From Woke to Woken, tells why and how to get to equal time - and it’s legality.
TeachtheTree: America's Founding Values and Principles "Thanksgiving to Christmas" Lesson Plan be approved by Local School Boards and City Counsils and added to every Public School Ethnic Studies Curriculum, as appropriate. (In California, School Districts can be legally obligated to grant approval.)
The Founding Fathers Gifting Tree symbolizes America’s Judeo-Christian heritage, celebrating its manners, morals, and principles as embedded in the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the Great Seal of the United States.
Background: As noted in our soon to be published book From Woke to Woken, from the beginning America’s social order is grounded in our Judeo-Christian heritage - a heritage espousing, among other things: a Creator (God) endowing unalienable rights; teaching Jesus philosophy of love of neighbor; guaranteeing the right to deny the existence of God; and, demanding the free exercise of religion.
Since the mid-1960s God and Jesus have been and are being erased from the public square. The continuing erasure from Ethnic Studies Curricula (starting with California) demands immediate action. From Woke to Woken should be read by every concerned parent in California - and let their voices be heard – before it’s too late.
Contact: Bud@StJudeOnInternet.org
* Free to participating School Districts: From Thanksgiving to Christmas Lesson Plan: (to be announced).
Random Legal Points
* The California State Board of Education Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum teaches moral values. See: Values and Principles of Ethnic Studies, Chapter 1, lines 252-280: “Given the range and complexity of the field, it is important to identify the key values of ethnic studies as a means to offer guidance for the development of ethnic studies courses, teaching, and learning. The foundational values of ethnic studies are housed in the conceptual model of the “double helix” which interweaves holistic humanization and critical consciousness. Humanization includes the values of love, respect, hope, and solidarity, which are based on celebration of community cultural wealth. The values in humanization and critical consciousness are the guiding values each ethnic studies lesson should include.”
* The Model Curriculum teaches moral values, specifically setting out the teaching of love, hope, respect, solidarity, setting out as non-mandated examples: Mayan Chants, Kwanzaa
* According to California Education Code 233.5 (a), teachers must teach their pupils the manners and the morals and the principles of a free government. Teaching a free government, by definition, requires the teaching of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage (which includes the Jesus philosophy of, “love God, love your neighbor as yourself”), the building blocks of America’s Founding Documents, the first free government in world history.
* Teaching All Sdes of the Same Event: In that the Model Curriculum teaches the manners and moral values and principles of Social Justice, permission from the local School Board for Lesson Plans adding our Judeo-Christian heritage (as the moral common ground of America’s social order) to their Ethnic Studies Curriculum cannot be denied just because it may be seen by some as religious.
* The California Model Curriculum specifically teaches Kwanzaa
If you can teach Kwanzaa,
You can teach Christmas:
From Woke To Woken
Jesus Philosophy In our country “Jesus Philosophy” is a religious sounding phrase for a non-religious, complex idea: the common values of America’s social order, fundamental to her culture of lawfulness. The values of our nation are derived from the Bible’s commitment to individual moral accountability, the God-imposed duty to do the right thing, coupled with the Jesus teaching “love your neighbor as yourself.” As embodied in the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, the Great Seal, Jesus Philosophy not only, on the one hand, embraces a Creator, unalienable rights, moral law, but, on the other hand, guarantees the freedom of thought and speech to reject God and the concept of moral law. While America’s wondrous success is obvious, polarizing differences of opinions as to solutions to our country's problems are straining the fabric of our social order. Healing requires starting at common ground - love of neighbor - as in Jesus Philosophy.
Creating a Democracy
The Christian religion has not created a successful democracy.
Nor has Islam.
Nor has Atheistic Communism.
Nor has Buddhism.
Nor has Confucianism.
Nor has Hinduism.
Nor has Zoroastrianism.
Americans have the constitutional right to believe in a God of choice and/or not believe in any God or anything spiritual at all.
Notwithstanding, Jesus is the most influential person in the history of the Western World, maybe the whole world.
Americans celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus, generating hope:
As long as there's Christmas I truly believe
That hope is the greatest of the gifts we'll receive
As long as our guiding star shines above
There will always be a Christmas
So there always will be a time
When the world is filled with peace and love. (From Beauty and the Beast)
The birth of Jesus is the birth of the Jesus ethical system:
The Jesus ethical system is the greatest the world has ever seen. - Thomas Jefferson
He (Jesus) came to promulgate a system of doctrines and of morals. Benjamin Rush (Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention delegate)
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals . . ., [is] the best the world ever saw or is likely to see. Benjamin Franklin
“It’s better to give than receive.” - Christmas Fundamental
The Jesus ethical system joined with the Jewish Prophets:
Birthing a shared biblical morality, a Judeo-Christian philosophy.
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