May 17, 2003
On May 7, 2003, a powderpuff
game between senior girls and junior girls in a Chicago school turned vicious.
The game, long known as a "rite of passage" for junior girls entering
their senior year culminated with broken bones and the smearing of human feces
on and dumping of paint on the junior girls.
This rite of passage had been a yearly event
for some 20 odd years. Parents knew about it; school officials knew about it.
Neither did anything to stop it. Now we learn that police are looking into the
probability that at least some of the parents supplied alcohol to the girls,
some of whom were intoxicated.
Why? Why did parents allow their kids to
get involved in this when this type of thing was obviously going on? Are
parents so brainwashed, so set on being socially accepted, that their children
mean so little to them? Are parents so intimidated that they have little to no
control over their children?
And why, when school officials knew this
was going on, did they do nothing?
And face it, shouldn't these girls have
known better? After all, these girls were 17-18 years old. At this point, they
want everyone to think they are quite grown up, mature, ready to shed their
parents and fly the coop so to speak.
But these girls were just having fun
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, doesn't it so what's the problem?
If this is what the rising generations look on as "fun," such should
serve as a wake-up call to the older generations.
On May 8, 2003, an 18 year old boy,
parroting what he had seen on the movie screen, jumped from a five story
building into a swimming pool. Only he missed the water and hit the edge of the
pool, breaking arms, legs, and pelvic bones as well as damaging tissue.
What could he have possibly been
thinking to do such a foolish thing? Did he really think that a stunt shown on
a movie screen at a theater was real? How is that possible? What had this boy
been taught? Where were this boy's parents? Why didn't they know where he was
or what he was up to?
Almost daily now we hear similar
stories, many even worse with kids killing kids and other people with guns,
knives or anything else they can use as a weapon to destroy. People shake their
heads and ask why.
Remember, we have a shifting paradigm.
What was down is now up and what was up is now down.
How many times have parents heard, over
the last 30 years,
·
don't spank
your children, don't discipline your children, children will understand what
they did wrong if you just talk to them;
·
be a friend to
your child;
·
you should
allow your child, like a flower, to grow and bloom;
·
your child is deprived
if he/she doesn't have everything and every opportunity that every other child
has;
·
the more
friends your child has, the more socially adjusted your child is;
·
your child should participate in every extra-curricular
activity available to him/her; such helps to build his/her character and makes
him/her a leader.
What the "experts" touting
this line have carefully left out of the conversation, however, is that all of
this is based on a world view, the world view of Humanism. And, like everything
else about this religion, it is unnatural. Dr Benjamin Spock was one of those
who provided the fuel to push this train along the tracks. Before he died, he
admitted that what he taught and wrote wasn't sound.
Children need discipline. Children need
structure. Children need authority. Parents should not be a child's friend, a parent is there to raise the child in an
atmosphere conducive to providing structure in the child's life. Children need
to know what is and what is not socially acceptable. Children need to know
right from wrong so they don't smear people with human feces, jump off a five
story building with the expectation of not getting hurt, or kill people. Child need to know their limits. All of this should come from
their parents and be modeled by every adult that comes into contact with that
child.
But that isn't happening. Parents have
largely abrogated their responsibility as parents rather than fight laws put in
place to thwart their ability to raise their child in accordance with their own
religious beliefs. Government schools, based on the religion of Humanism, are
not about to do anything to change this situation for the better as the
situation plays right into their mission: children as members of the new family
the school; parents as part of the extended family of the school the silent
partner. In the words of Joseph C Fields, in his book, Total Quality for
Schools: "This changes the role of parent to be one of a 'vendor'
of precious, incomparable resources to teachers."
All of this falls right in line with
government schools being used to produce workers for the managed or "total
quality" economy under the new paradigm. Again, in the words of Joseph C
Fields: "Educational management must prepare itself and others for a new
world."
People ask, "What can we do about
all this?" World view is the key. Most people never stop to define their
world view. But everyone has one, whether Christian, Humanism, Islam, New Age ...
A newspaper article, in July 1996,
stated that "92 percent of the respondents [to a poll] believe in God,
while only 6 percent do not."
For the sake of argument, say the poll
represented a "cross-section" of the United States,
such would mean that roughly 92 percent of all Americans believe in God. That
being the case, why are so many people actively or tacitly placing their stamp
of approval on that which is emanating from the world view of Humanism? Does
the Bible not instruct Christians that they should have no other God before
Him? Is not worshipping at the altar of Humanism blasphemy? Can someone who
worships at the altar of Humanism call themselves Christian?
If you are a Humanist, such means you
believe in and practice the tenets of Humanism. The same is true of other
religions. Such is also true of Christianity. One cannot be a sometimes
Christian but proclaim oneself a Christian. One cannot wittingly send one's
children to a Humanist school and still proclaim oneself a Christian. One
cannot go to church on Sunday and spend the remainder of the week practicing
the principles of another religion and call oneself a Christian. Either one is
or one is not a Christian.
If 92 percent of all Americans are
Christian, it is time the Christian population stood up for and lived by their
religious principles.
Sources:—
Briggs, David;
"Humanist magazine: 90% believe in God;" Associated Press; July 27,
1996.
Field, Joseph C; Total Quality for
Schools; Milwaukee: ASQC Press; 1993.
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