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I, above all else, value truth. I believe that truth is the greatest possible power in this universe. Truth can topple an empire and create a new one in it's place, truth can make a person great and make then them depressed to the point of contemplating suicide. In my opinion truth is the most dangerous and most beautiful thing in the universe. And truth is what you spit on every time you lie. My opponent has made a claim that the line "one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures. " is found the in first US public school curriculum. I attempted to showed him that this claim is wrong yet he still purports it as true. If my opponent were a truthful person he would have simply changed his signature, and if he were a lazy person he would have done nothing. He did neither, what he did do was change his signature to include a request to vote on one of his recent debates after I informed him off the inaccuracy. In my opinion those are the actions of a liar, a type of people who I hate more then almost any other. And so, since I was interested in having one anyways, I challenged him to a debate on the topic. Since he has accepted I assume he still somehow thinks the statement is true. And I seek to prove this contention incorrect. If after this debate I win and he does not change his signature, then his character is all the more obvious to the outside observer. My opponent has asked that I make no personal claims, I'll agree with the side note that the above paragraphs do not count as they are not part of the actual debate. They are just my reply to his confusion on why I challenged him. And I would like to point out that I did not say that he would not defend his claims, I merely said that other people have given the opinion that he does not defend his claims on a regular basis. I would also like to know why he called me unitedandy. Now onto the debate. My first piece of evidence against my opponent is a Massachusetts school law, namely the one titled The Old Deluder Law, this law states that any village with 50 or more families in the British colony of Massachusetts is obligated to have one teacher and that any village with 100 or more families is obligated to have a grammar school fit to educate people to go to university. If villages in the colony did not abide by the law then they were fined 5 pound. Now most of you have probably noticed the similarity between the name of this law and the quote in question, that would be because this law is named after the first line in it "It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures". The line that my opponent purports is from a school curriculum is actually from a law of a British colony. Now my second piece of evidence against my opponent is that the U. S didn't even exist at the time. In 1647 America was owned by several countries. And if he had said America this debate could only be about semantics. But instead he said U. S, as in the United States of America. Now the United states were not even fully united until a few decades ago so one could argue that the U. S didn't technically exist before then. But the constitution wasn't even enacted till over a century after this law was passed so no one could contend that this is a U. S law or even that it has anything to do with the United States. My third and finally piece of evidence. The one that shows, regardless of whether you believe the two arguments above, that the statement is false. Is that the first school in America came into being in 1635, 10 years before he say's this was in a school curriculum. The first school in america was a British one in Boston, New England. So it wasn't even under jurisdiction of the Massachusetts law when it did come about. The first school was a school to teach the languages Latin and Greek, It was called The Boston Latin School. Now either my opponent can contend that the school went without a curriculum for 10 years, or he can concede defeat. Thank you dear viewers for reading my words, and please vote for the truth. Sources: My Brain . https://www.bls.org... . http://www.constitution.org... . http://www.historyofnations.net...