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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It                 117
his crimes in hopes that he might be able to help others avoid the same mistake.
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In Sacramento, Calif., the local school district is being sued by a group called PLANS
(People for Legal and Nonsectarian Schools). The group includes both evangelical Christians
and liberals. PLANS contends that the Waldorf curriculum being used by the local school district
is based on an occult New Age religion called “Anthroposophy.”
The School district has designated “The Waldorf Teacher's Survival Guide” as one of its
resource materials for “training or instruction in Waldorf teaching methods or Waldorf
curriculum.” “WorldNetDaily obtained a copy of the 67-page pamphlet, published in 1992 and
written by Eugene Schwartz, head of the Waldorf teacher training program at Sunbridge College
in Spring Valley, N.Y. The 'Guide' says, on page 54: 'Most of that which contributes to our work
as teachers, preparation work, artistic work, even meditative work, is under the guardianship of
Lucifer. We can become great teachers under his supervision, for he is responsible for much that
has blossomed in the unfolding of civilization and culture in the past.'”
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District Court Judge Frank C. Damrell dismissed the case on May 18, 2001. The Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Damrell's decision and remanded the case back to District
Court on February 10, 2003. The case is awaiting trial.
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At Lowell Elementary School in Wheaton, Illinois, some parents of students sued the
school district in order to halt the use of the Impressions Reading Series as the main
supplemental reading program. The parents alleged that the students were required “to prepare
and cast chants and spells and to practice being witches.” The district court granted a summary
judgment in favor of the school district without ever hearing the case and the appeals court
affirmed.
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In New York in 1999, parents sued Bedford Central School District over a smorgassbord
of school activities, which they alleged promoted the New Age, Paganism and Satanic themes.
The parents attorney James Bendell argued, “There are two standards: Any trace of Christianity
must be banished but teachers are free to smuggle in Eastern religions and any other forms of
belief.”
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The most egregious complaints included:
Two of the schools had a “Magic” club which used the Fantasy Role Playing card game
“Magic: The Gathering.”
Some school lessons involved teaching about the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl and the Hindu
deity Lord Ganesha and making sculptures (or rather graven images) of both these false
gods. “Students were also told that some persons believe Quetzalcoatl will return to the
world in the year 2012.”
In one school activity children were required to make “worry dolls” (a pagan charm) to
put under their pillows at night to keep nightmares away. One of the children testified to
being told to place the doll “underneath our pillows and pray to the gods and take all our
worries ... away and dream.”
Regarding an Earth Day event—one child testified that his teacher stated: “[w]e came
from the Earth, we're part of the Earth and we're all involved in this cycle. One day we'll
become [dead] and then we'll go back to the Earth.” The same child testified that in
another year his teacher made a speech “mainly about there's just too many people on this
Earth” and about how “[w]e need to do something about it.”
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