The New World Order of Islam — Page 22
New World Order 22 by Bolshevism through adoption of the principle that religion should be a matter for the free choice of each adult. It is asserted that parents have no right to instil the principles of any religion into the minds of their children. Education and instruction should be wholly the concern of the State. It is alleged that to influence the mind of the child in the direction of a particular religion is tyranny of the worst type, as a result of which children grow up in the faiths of their parents. The proper course, it is asserted, is to safeguard the minds of children against all religious influence so that when a child grows into an adult, he or she can make a free choice in the matter of religion. The adoption of this view means the destruction of religion. Under it children are separated from their parents at an early age. Their education and instruction are placed in the hands of a State agency. All reference to religion or religious doctrines is excluded from the education prescribed. The result is that the child grows up completely indifferent to religion, if not actively hostile to it. It is no use asserting that when he arrives at the age of discretion he can adopt whatever religion he chooses. His mind, by that time, becomes completely sealed against every religious influence. It is claimed that the system ensures a clean slate so far as religious training is concerned, so that an adult on maturity is at liberty to write on it what he likes. This, however, is a patent