We often hear talk about the
war in Iraq, the war on drugs, the coming war with Iran or the final war of
Armageddon. We are quite comfortable
with war. In all the years that I have
lived, I am closing in on 56 years of age and my country has been at war for
over half of those years.
In my opinion, the most
important war of my lifetime has been the cultural war that has brought
division and decimation to the lives of many Americans. Much of our society is in disarray as a
result of the battle wounds of the culture war.
Fifty million unborn infants have been sent to early graves. Multitudes of our youth are gender confused. People of all ages have bought into the
deception that substances, legal and illegal, can bring some sort of healing
into their torn lives. The war on drugs
has been a fatal failure. The war on
poverty has been laughable. Rather than
eliminate poverty government dependency has increased the numbers of the poor.
The clash between Christians
and secularists will continue until a victor rises from the bloody pit. Perceptive Christians are saddened because they
know they are losing the culture war, losing badly. Despair never overcomes us because we serve
the King of Kings and he promises one day to split the eastern sky and conquer
the enemies of his holiness. But until
this event takes places we are instructed to “occupy until I come”. (Luke 19:13)
Some will say that the real
culprit in corrupting our youth is the entertainment industry. Who wouldn’t agree that Hollywood and the
modern music industry’s celebration of immorality is a cancer eating away at
American values? Others will blame the
government. More will point their finger
to the church which is no longer willing to offend anyone for fear of losing
members or reducing the money stash even though the word of God says that Jesus
himself was a Rock of Offense and compares the scripture to a sword of
offense. No one is offended by the truth
anymore because we are willing to tolerate any amount of sin. A disciplined life of holy living is a foreign
concept to many because they are being fed a cotton candy theology that
continually affirms that God loves them no matter what kind of lifestyle they
live. It is true that God is love but
when we fail to balance his love with his justice we develop a misperception of
the reality of his full identity.
I think the culture war is
not only being lost in the church, it is being lost in the public schools. Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is never
more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our
children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on
for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our
children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States
where men were free.” The common vehicle
through which we pass on truth to future generations is the school. We must be asking the question, “What is my
child learning in school?” Sadly, there
is a certain level of apathy among many who just don’t care about the education
of their children.
Christians are not permitted
to be apathetic about their offspring.
The word of God instructs us “Tell it to your children, and let your
children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.”
(Joel 13) Let’s come to terms with just what
our children are being taught in government schools. They are taught reading, writing and arithmetic
but not very well. 77% of American
parents believe the schools in their neighborhood are doing a good job
educating their own children. (Gallup
Poll) But the national test scores show
that our children are not doing so well.
70% of high school students arrive in college unprepared and they are
required to take remediation courses just to get up to par.
The great lie that the public
believes is that the more money we spend on education the more improvement we
will see. We have sunk billions of
dollars into a black hole and we’ve received nothing in return for our
investment. Jay Greene, author of
"Education Myths," laments the fact that "If money were the
solution, the problem would already be solved ... We've doubled per pupil spending, adjusting for inflation, over the last 30 years, and yet schools
aren't better."
Government schools in the
United States are a monopoly. Mediocrity
is tolerated because the unions are more interested in caring for the paying
customer rather than the children in the classroom as was affirmed by Al Shanker
who served as the President of the American Federation of teachers (1964-1997) “When
schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the
interests of schoolchildren.” The price
of education skyrockets where there is no competition and the quality declines
because every teacher will have a captive audience every day in spite of how they
perform as an educator.
Our children have become
pawns on the political chess board, they are willingly sacrificed in the
culture war. It is no longer about
academic achievement, it is about social engineering. It is about recruiting future foot soldiers to
fly the banner for homosexuality, socialism and evolution. Consider Arne Duncan, a Chicago crony who was
nominated by Barack Obama to be the U.S. Secretary of Education and confirmed by
the Senate on January 20, 2009. Perhaps
Duncan is best known for promoting the Social Justice Solidarity School, a high
school exclusively for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered students. This isn’t about academic achievement. This is about recruiting youth into a
homosexual lifestyle.
Consider also Kevin Jennings
who served as Assistant Deputy of Education from 2009 to 2011. When Jennings was a teacher at Concord
Academy in Concord, Massachusetts, he served as the first faculty advisor to
the nation’s first Gay-Strait Alliance.
In 1990 in founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. (GLSEN)
Why are American Christians willing to sit back and allow our schools to
be used as recruiting centers for a sexual lifestyle that is clearly condemned as
a perversion of God’s plan in the Word of God? (Romans 1, Jude 7, 2 Peter
2:4-9)
http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2012/01/06/hamas-linked-cair-in-your-kids-classroom/
Kevin Probst - Teaches History, Government and Apologetics at the high school level in Columbus Georgia.
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