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<\/source><\/picture>Virtually every week there is some new attack on America as founded. Each one represents more chipping away at our nation\u2019s Judeo-Christian roots. As a nation, we suffer from what I call<\/a> \u201cAmerican Amnesia.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a recent example. There is a town about 30 miles away from San Francisco named in honor of Concord, Massachusetts, where the original \u201cshot heard round the world\u201d was fired. Their school has the classic image of a Minuteman, holding his rifle, as their logo. But now the school board there has voted 4 to 1 to replace that image with a bear (costing the taxpayers $200,000).<\/p>\n Foxnews.com reports<\/a> that \u201cshowcasing a firearm\u201d was one of the concerns with the traditional mascot. They also say: \u201cothers wanted a name that was gender inclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n A member of the Mount Diablo Unified School board said<\/a>, \u201cIf changing a mascot will make students feel welcomed, embraced and empowered them to participate more at the school, then I will support this.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Adam Clark, the superintendent of the district, thought it was the right decision \u201cin response to the mass shootings and killings of students on school campuses.\u201d After all, a \u201cmale minutemen soldier holding a rifle was not a symbol many of our students and staff felt created a welcoming environment.\u201d<\/p>\n Political Correctness: 1. American history: 0.<\/p>\n I asked for a comment from the Rev. Dan Fisher<\/a>, an expert on the American War for Independence, and especially the unsung role that ministers played in it. Fisher wrote a book<\/a> on that, entitled, Bringing Back the Black Robed Regiment.<\/em><\/p>\n Dan Fisher told<\/a> me: \u201cIt is so ironic, and yet so \u2018wokeist\u2019 of the Concord, California \u2026 school board to just now become \u2018offended\u2019 by their long-time school mascot \u2014 an image of the famous Minuteman statue near the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts where American patriots defeated the British at the Battle of Concord, April 19, 1775.\u201d<\/p>\n Fisher continued, \u201cThe iconic Minuteman image has come to represent liberty to countless millions of Americans for generations but somehow offends these snowflake school board members … Maybe they would be more comfortable with the hammer and sickle as their school symbol. When will Californians go from being \u2018woke\u2019 to \u2018awake\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n Dan Fisher has also commented<\/a> on how we should appreciate such early Americans who defended their God-given liberties in a video segment, which is part of a series of films<\/a> I have made for Providence Forum on the Judeo-Christian roots of America.<\/p>\n The Minutemen played a key role in the War for Independence. They were given their name because they could enter battle at a minute\u2019s notice if they had to. What is not well known is that many of them were deacons and elders of the churches \u2014 such as the Lexington church, where the Revolution began.<\/p>\n The day the American Revolution began was on April 19, 1775, when British troops \u2014 on their way to secure gunpowder in Concord, Massachusetts \u2014 encountered some of the men from the Lexington church, whose pastor was the patriotic Rev. Jonas Clark (sometimes spelled Clarke).<\/p>\n The night before, Clark had been entertaining Sam Adams and John Hancock in his home. The British were interested in arresting those two men, whom they considered traitors. Because of these developments, this was the night that Paul Revere<\/a> famously rode long and hard to warn his countrymen that, \u201cThe British are coming! The British are coming!\u201d<\/p>\n When the British soldiers arrived in Lexington, they were surprised to see armed Americans standing in defiance at the village green \u2014 the large stretch of lawn in front of Jonas Clark\u2019s church.<\/p>\n The Minutemen held their ground and were given orders not to fire unless fired upon. Someone, perhaps a British soldier, fired a shot and chaos ensued \u2014 and many of the church\u2019s lay leaders were killed. These were the first casualties of the war.<\/p>\n The battle began in Lexington and then the British marched on to Concord, about seven miles away.<\/p>\n George Bancroft (1800-1891) wrote a wonderful multi-volume series of books<\/a>, entitled, History of the United States of America, From the Discovery of the American Continent.<\/em><\/p>\n Bancroft notes: \u201cThe people of Concord, of whom about two hundred appeared in arms on that day, derived their energy from their sense of the divine power. This looking to God as their sovereign brought the fathers to their pleasant valley; this controlled the loyalty of the sons; and this had made the name of Concord venerable throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n In Concord that day was \u201cthe shot heard round the world,\u201d a phrase made famous by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 poem<\/a>, \u201cConcord Hymn.\u201d<\/p>\n The Rev. Clark said of Lexington\/Concord, \u201cFrom the 19th of April 1775 will be dated the liberty of the American world.\u201d But now some people are trying to snuff out that liberty, one school board decision at a time.<\/p>\n Jerry Newcombe, D.Min., is the executive director of the Providence Forum, an outreach of D. James Kennedy Ministries, where Jerry also serves as senior producer and an on-air host. He has written\/co-written 33 books, including\u00a0George Washington\u2019s Sacred Fire<\/em>\u00a0(with Providence Forum founder Peter Lillback, Ph.D.) and\u00a0What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?<\/em>\u00a0(with D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.). www.djkm.org?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 @newcombejerry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0www.jerrynewcombe.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n