Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

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Lots of loose talk flies around about a coming civil war in USA. Actually, it is in progress. I have written on the subject three times before this:

Clerical Wars, Not Religious, Sectarian, Or Civil Wars

The Second American Civil War

Answering Civil War With Revolutionary War

The first American civil war sees federals insisting states be united as one nation. This second American civil war sees some states insisting federals not dismember the nation. Basically, and not a little humorously, today the roles are reversed.

Guns and battles scamper about in people’s minds, jails and executions, and such like. Neighbors against neighbors, a perfect hell. All manipulated by foreign powers through proxy domestic US federal department and agency minions. There is truth to all of that. But it is not the main show, the point of friction, not the locus of decision.

The point of friction, of decision, in this second American civil war is accreditation organizations, and in particular, academic accreditation organizations.

Culture arises, or not, from schools just as schools arise, or not, from families.

America’s strength is her Calvinist emphasis on universal education. Her weakness is compulsory education. To want everyone educated is good. To make everyone educated is demonic. Education is led (ex + ducare). If compelled, it is indoctrination, not education. Authority to decide for one — education — or the other — indoctrination — reposes with each family.

The lynch pin of compulsory indoctrination is a network of accreditation organizations. Universal education needs no such whip. Parents easily are able to discern whether their children benefit from a teacher(s) or not. Ditto older students, and for themselves. Neuter or remove academic accreditation organizations — in body or in principle — and universal education replaces compulsory indoctrination. Academic accreditation organizations are needed only by an industrialized, compulsory system of indoctrination. To a system of education they are harmful. Parents are competent to discern what benefits them and their children.

Widgets are made by industry.
Character is made by education.

So the real fight now, the second American civil war, is at the point of academic accreditation. America’s parents — and their children for themselves in maturer years — will make ways to make American education happen without recourse to external, unelected, doctrinaire, and unseen academic accreditation organizations.

Accreditation authority for America’s system of education reposes in America’s families. They accredit schools by their presence at them, or not. No one has authority to usurp that authority from America’s families.

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In this civil war, the ones who fight for unity — of each person, family, town, state, nation — are the ones who win the war.  Get far ahead of the current action, i.e., behind the enemy’s lines, in their rear areas (school accreditation organizations, school boards, town councils, do not attend or support progressive schools, etc.).  It’s a frame of reference thing.  For example:

Three Brothers Doctrine
Civil Defense Battalions
National Sovereignty

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It was just said, all of you are all like boulders, rough and hard, and devotion has the power to make you soft and smooth. Now, what does a sculptor do when he sees a good boulder? He pictures in his mind the lovely idol of God that is sleeping inside it. He becomes possessed with the idea of liberating the idol from the hard clasp of the stone. He takes up his chisel and removes the extra stone that lies around the beautiful figure, and, at last, he liberates the image. The boulder has to suffer all that hard chiselling in order to become the image of God. So too, you should cast off all the impediments, all the encumbrances that drag you down and make you a boulder instead of a devotee, an ascetic of the highest order (Paramahamsa), or even the Supreme Being (Paramatma).