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In Everett, Washington, district administrators instructed children to seal their Bibles inside envelopes during school hours, as though the living Word were a thing of disgrace. The head of a local Bible education program recorded the directive, revealing that students were compelled to treat Scripture as contraband within their own classrooms.
These officials acted as the Managerial Clerisy of the new secular order, enforcing a regime in which the open presence of the Bible threatens the carefully constructed neutrality of the public institution. Their motive was not mere administrative convenience but the deeper desire to train the young in habits of concealment and shame toward the faith of their fathers.
Western Christendom once broke the medieval chains that kept Scripture locked away from the laity; the Reformation placed the open Bible at the center of household and school alike, declaring that no earthly power could hide the Word from the people. Everett's policy reverses that achievement, restoring the old prohibition under the new mask of bureaucratic tolerance.
The governing principle is simple: the Christian household holds prior right over the formation of its children, and the state possesses no authority to compel concealment of the Scriptures that formed the moral order of the West. When officials demand that Bibles be hidden, they declare war not on disorder but on the very foundation of ordered liberty.
By this act the district placed itself among the Dispossessors who systematically strip families of religious inheritance in the name of institutional harmony. The resulting judgment is unavoidable: such policies cannot stand once the faithful remnant refuses to cooperate with the shame they impose.
The faithful must now recover parental oversight of education, withdraw support from districts that treat Scripture as contraband, and rebuild schools where the Bible stands openly as the measure of truth rather than an item to be concealed. Only through such refusal will the City of God again shape the rising generation against the encroachments of the City of Man.
