Jeremiah 18:12  “We will walk according to our own plans, and we will obey the dictates of his evil heart.”

It is getting harder and harder for parents to find a university that teaches the Christian principles of accountability, responsibility, and the pursuit of objective truth. But, at this one, its motto remains enshrined on a shield in its main courtyard: “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae,” meaning “Truth for Christ and the Church”.

In fact, the shield displays three books, with the top 2 books face up and the book on the bottom face down. This arrangement is defined by the code of this university: “There are limits to secular reasoning.”

It gets even better if you are Christian parents wanting your child to get an education in biblical truth. 10 of this university’s first 12 presidents were ministers, and 50% of their graduates became pastors, where Systematic Theology (combining biblical doctrine with the development of Christian doctrine through philosophy, ethics, social sciences, and natural sciences) became the focus of your education.

What university is this? Sorry to dash your hopes. The above facts are true, but they date to the time of 1636 -1827. By the 1760’s, only 15% of its graduates were pastors. In fact, today’s campus “pastor” – Greg Epstein, the President of the Campus Chaplains – is an atheist who proudly states “We don’t look to a god for answers. We are each other’s answers.” Welcome to today’s Harvard University, America’s oldest, most prestigious, and wealthiest (#1 ranked endowment fund of $49.5 billion) American university.

Harvard recently made headlines – in an extremely negative way – when 33 student groups gathered on campus to denounce Israel in a public statement only days after Hamas slaughtered 1,400 innocent women, children, and elderly: “Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last 2 decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence. The apartheid regime is the only one to blame.”

How did our first and university (a Western phenomenon) do a complete 180 from its 1636 roots as a Christian university, to in 2011 electing an atheist as its lead pastor, to then, 12 years later, seeing its students issue hate statements against a nation suffering its worst massacre since the Nazi Holocaust?

We are partly to blame. We as taxpayers fund the secular, Marxist teachers who indoctrinate our children and radicalize them against our Judeo-Christian American heritage. One of Harvard’s most famous educators was Chester M. Pierce, Harvard’s Professor of Education and Psychiatry for over 25 years.

“Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It is up to you teachers to make all these sick children well by creating the international children of the future.”  This is Pierce’s 1972 Address to the Association for Childhood Education International.

The foundation of Harvard’s Christian heritage already had cracks with the 1859 introduction of Darwinian evolution as the substitute for God as Creator. Now, educators like Pierce were free to indoctrinate our young adults over the past 60 years. The student body reaction – to loudly boo hero Alekzandr Solzhenitsyn in his 1978 Harvard Commencement Speech “A World Split Apart” – should have warned us.

“In American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted on the ground that man is God’s creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Even 50 years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible in America that an individual be granted boundless freedom with no purpose, simply for the satisfaction of his whims.

Everywhere in the West, a total emancipation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice. State systems were becoming ever more materialistic. Man’s sense of responsibility to God and society has grown dimmer and dimmer.” The students booed him down.

In this week’s verse, the prophet Jeremiah, in the book carrying his name, warned Israel of Assyria’s looming attack because of their rebellion against God. But Jeremiah’s warnings and pleas to turn back to God fell on deaf ears. Israel decided, just like Harvard’s atheist Chaplain, to “look to each other – our own evil hearts – and not God, for answers.” We are watching the historical book of Jeremiah repeat at Harvard.

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