The War On Children
When I was growing up during the 1950s and 60s, I had a great deal of personal liberty. My folks didn’t have to worry too much about me being kidnapped, assaulted or murdered because crimes of that sort were quite rare. Consequently, as long as I did my homework and had my chores done, I was free to do pretty much as I pleased.
I would play unsupervised by myself or with other kids for hours. I would go on impromptu bike rides that very often ended up being miles long. I was taught to be wary of strangers, especially if they showed too much interest in me, but I never encountered an adult who tried to do me harm. As long as I was home at the appointed time, stayed out of trouble and didn’t go anywhere I was forbidden to go, everything was all right.
Today we live in a very different world. Responsible parents can’t allow their children anywhere near the amount of freedom I enjoyed as a kid. Children are snatched off sidewalks, grabbed in parking lots and kidnapped in stores, sometimes right under the noses of distracted parents. Parents have to watch their kids like hawks these days, but physical threats are not the only dangers out there.
Government schools have been on the decline for decades and now are little more than indoctrination centers where God is taboo and satanic “clubs” are OK. Critical race theory (CRT) promotes racial hatred, distorts history and in some cases, creates self-loathing. Kids read pornographic books in school libraries and attend mind-bending drag queen story hours. After confusing and perverting vulnerable children about gender and sex, some schools help kids embark on disastrous gender-changing treatments, sometimes without even notifying the parents.
As if that weren’t enough, the schools that are supposed to be teaching basic skills, like reading, mathematics and English composition, don’t do much of that any more. Schools emphasize Marxism over mathematics. Among first-world nations, the US is at or near the top in spending per student and at or near the bottom in test results. Many of our kids leave school as brainwashed, confused and perverted ignoramuses.
Public schools have assumed the role that rightfully belongs to parents. Parents who complain to school boards and other school authorities are treated like intruders interfering in somebody else’s business. School authorities resent and resist all criticism, no matter how justified it may be. With the help of a corrupt criminal justice system, they cover up crimes like the case of a Virginia schoolgirl who was raped in a girl’s restroom by a trans-gendered male student.
To add insult to injury, the FBI has been caught “investigating” parents who complain at school board meetings about CRT, porno-books and drag shows. Ominously, federal officials have stretched the definition of the term “domestic terrorist” to include law-abiding parents who are simply asserting their God-given parental rights.
Increasingly, government schools take the position that they are in charge of raising our children. They believe they have the right to do so any way they see fit, regardless of what parents think. Some teachers even refer to the students in their classrooms as “their kids.” It also appears, for the time being at least, that law enforcement and the criminal justice system are backing them up.
Schools, pedophiles and other assorted perverts and criminals are just the tip of the iceberg. Our whole culture has taken a decisive turn for the worse since I was a child. Social media, the film industry, academia and most major corporations are steeped in woke ideology and aggressively marketing it to the young. Almost everywhere you turn, from popular music to the Internet, you find degenerates and mediocrity.
Even the medical profession is complicit in the war on children, taking part in everything from abortion to hormone treatments and mutilating surgeries for confused kids trying to change their genders. The doctors involved in these procedures are doing irreparable harm to their young victims. Clearly, those doctors have abandoned the Hippocratic oath. There is also evidence that since it was dramatically expanded during the 1980s, the childhood vaccination schedule has become responsible for a meteoric rise in autism, attention deficit disorder, and allergies.
We like to think that with all the rapid technological advances in recent years, we are better off than ever before. Only a few decades ago, the World Wide Web, social media, cell phones, flat screen television and HDTV didn’t even exist. But has all this technology really made us better off? Not long ago, a middle class, blue-collar father like mine could support his wife, afford a house, drive a decent car, have four children and eat well, all on his own salary. Mothers typically took care of the home and the children while fathers went to work. Children were properly supervised by one of their own parents, although they didn’t need as much oversight as they do today. Fathers usually worked eight hours a day and at the end of the day, they didn’t have to think about work again until the next workday.
Today, couples can barely get by on two salaries. Some even need overtime or a second job to make ends meet. If couples can afford to have kids at all, the children are often starved for attention by parents who aren’t home or are too tired to pay adequate attention to them when they do get home. Strangers in day care centers do a lot of the child rearing and many day care workers have been proven to be untrustworthy. Family life suffers when both parents have to work and strangers take over so many of their responsibilities.
Modern technology is a mixed blessing at best. Dads used to quit work at 5:00 PM and not be bothered by work again until the next day. Now their cell phones may interrupt them at any time. Email, text messages and wireless phones are faster and more efficient than conventional mail and landlines, but they come with disadvantages, too. Are we really better off with interruptions that come without warning at any time and without regard to where we are or what we are doing? It’s a quality of life question.
Technology is a mixed blessing for children, too. Are they better off running and playing outside in the sun or sitting indoors, playing video games? Kids who used to go the library to crack open reference books can now look things up on the Internet in seconds, but the same devices that give them access to a vast pool of useful information also expose them to a vast cesspool of pornography and propaganda, not to mention predators. Is this really an improvement?
Kids are spending so much time with their computers and smart phones that some of them are having difficulty developing normal social skills. Young kids are even becoming overweight because they are indoors using social media instead of outdoors playing and interacting with other kids directly. Childhood obesity is another recent development. It was almost non-existent when I was growing up. Blame that on junk food and inactivity.
Whatever affects families adversely affects children adversely. Today, the normal roles of husband and wife have, in many cases, been turned upside down. Women’s rights advocates and “woke” ideology are largely to blame. Too many young wives think they should be wearing the pants in the family and too many young husbands let them. Men, whose masculinity is being attacked as toxic, are becoming milquetoasts. None of this is good for the family.
The traditional family unit also suffers because government welfare programs provide more incentives for women to raise kids without fathers than with them. Naturally, the number of single moms is on the rise. This really hurts their children, who need two parents. Boys, in particular, need a father to help keep them in line and to correct them when they get out of line.
The trans-gender movement and same-sex “marriages” are also taking a toll on traditional families. Childless and unwholesome unions are replacing normal, childbearing families. Abortion is performed on an industrial scale in the US and should really be classified as mass murder. Abortion takes a terrible toll on those least able to defend themselves. All of these things work together to undermine traditional families, the foundation stones of civilization. The downfall of the traditional family will ultimately destroy society.
Ours is not the first culture to abuse its young. Throughout history, corrupt people, even entire nations, have engaged in the most heinous crimes against children. This includes child sacrifice. There is evidence that satanic rituals involving human sacrifice are still practiced today. Child sex trafficking and pedophilia exist all over the world, but they are rampant in North America. All considered, depravity is on the rise and our children are right in the crosshairs.
The war on children is not a natural phenomenon, but it is not merely unnatural. It is supernatural. It is evil, satanic and demonic. This concept is too much for many modern, “sophisticated” people to swallow. More and more people are denying both God and Satan as myths and fairy tales. When they deny the existence of Satan, however, they leave themselves wide open and defenseless against Satan’s assaults.
We are witnessing an age-old battle being played out on a modern stage. It is a battle waged by Satan against God’s creation. Satan hates God and because he can’t attack God directly, he seeks to destroy all the good things God has made. Mankind is the main focus of Satan’s destructive power because man is the crowning jewel of God’s creation. Children are the most vulnerable among us, so Satan singles out children as special targets. Here is a book on the subject that I recommend:
The War on Children: Providing Refuge for Your Children in a Hostile World (John MacArthur, Grace To You, P.O. Box 4000, Panorama City, CA 91412, www.gty.org)
Protecting our children means watching over them like a mother hen and taking all normal precautions, but there is more to be done. A supernatural foe must be fought by supernatural means. This means praying to God for protection. It also means bringing children up to know God. Kids should not think there is anything unusual about worshipping and obeying God. They should not feel out of place in church. They should not be ashamed to mention the name, Jesus Christ. They need to understand the nature of evil, learn how to recognize it and how to resist it. Because parents can’t always be there to protect their children, the only force that can always shield them from evil in the Sodom and Gomorrah in which we live is almighty God.