Every other month, for one week, I am having Worldview Week. This will be one post for the week covering topics from defending the pro-life position to postmodernism, atheism to communism. If you would like to see an article on a certain issue, let me know. I may even add the articles to a Worldview Page of sorts.
War on the Family
Many people realize there has been a war declared on the family. But most do not understand what is warring against them. We know that our parents are divorcing, our kids are running away and commiting crimes, and our toddlers are falling behind developmentally. I’ve written this post to share with you what I have learned about this war, it’s proponents, and the agenda. I am not an expert on communism: I just watch the news, read Christian books on communism, and learn about communist patterns and tactics.
The schools and media are heavily influenced by socialistic thinking. Of course, not all the kids in America go to government schools. I’m not blaming the parents that do send their children to public schools for being poor parents, because they aren’t. If you go to public school, I’m not condemning you, I simply want to share what I’ve learned about the government’s agenda. I want you to feel prepared to stand up for your faith! Please do not take this post the wrong way.
A Race Down The Tubes
I recently had the distinct pleasure of watching a sixty year old newsreel on Turner Classic Movies channel. It was called Time Marches On, and it was once a newsreel shown for 15 minutes in theaters on the 40′s current events during WWII.
It was late at night, and some of the episodes were rather funny: one was on beauty, another was on the Arabs vs. the Israelis in the new country of Israel. (They predicted the fighting between the two groups would end ‘shortly.’ What is their definition of shortly? 1000 years? 
) The one episode that intrigued me the most was the one on decline of the family after the war. The show explained how many kids were in lack of parental guidance, with the fathers home from war and working again and the mothers refusing to quit their jobs; which they had taken while the men fought. It talked of how most kids were beginning to lag in school, avoid adults, and commit ‘small crime’: all because of the decline of the family. The teens were resorting to other units of people outside of the family, like ‘gangs who throw stones and break glass.’ The smarter ones went to clubs who planned out their future and helped their communities. The reel kept emphasizing the decline of the family, and how it must be reversed. Spot on!
Today, we have kids dropping out of school, commiting murder, and moving out of the house. We have teens who go to clubs too, only these clubs are called nightclubs, and must obtain fake IDs to get in. The gangs are still around, as well. They don’t throw stones anymore. They steal cars.
We don’t have newsreels anymore to tell us what these kids’ problems are. We have psychiatrists and psychologists who say these kids are just deprived of a good education. More schooling is the answer. Give them some self-esteem! Make them happy to be alive! Give them anti-depressants. That’ll solve their problems.
Hmm?!
On A Closer Level
There’s a family in our neighborhood whose home is filled with screams and shouting. Their dogs bark all the time, the lady of the household almost never smiles or has fun. The live-in boyfriend gawks at my mother when she gardens, the kids are always walking off then being called back. Almost every day “HENRY!” (not his real name) can be heard echoing off the surrounding houses. There’s no method to the madness. It’s just plain madness.
There are broken homes all over the US. Not every family is peaceful. In fact, most are pieceful. Many girls I know have divorced parents, and those who aren’t living in divorced homes have families that are argumentative. It seems that nobody knows what communication is anymore. A good family night has the definition of watching a glass screen with glassy eyes with loved ones around them.
When was the last time you had a quality time with one of your parents? A lot of us may have to stop and think. It’s been awhile with my dad and I. I’m sure you feel the same way. Inside the house, you feel distant and unsure of how to start a conversation. Outside the house, everyone acts “normal” and polite with one another. At church, every family seems, at the surface, happy and “normal.”
But in reality, they all have the same problems of communication and quality time, too.
Why is This Happening?
The government has an agenda. Please don’t roll your eyes and move the mouse towards the back button.
In the early 1900′s, there was the first subtle attack on the family. It came with the government mandate of schooling. Instead of school stopping at 8th grade, it went through the 12th grade. The government thought this was good, and at first, seemed a great experiment. Then, some decades later, the Bible and prayer were taken out of schools for the sake of neutrality. Big mistake. Then, discipline (other than community service and suspension)was removed. Uh-oh. Add in tons of homework, and we have three problems:
1. No basis for moral absolutes and a standard for truth. (The removal of faith and God)
2. No major punishment to fear for commiting any school crime. (Community service? No big deal. Painting curbs is fun… Suspended? Aww, I can come back in two days!)
3. Homework, and the abundance of it. By putting loads of homework on a teen or child, they will not have much time to spend with family (Why have 30 story problems if most kids get the idea by number 8?)
It Takes A Village?
Moving from the 40′s to the age of Women’s Lib, we remember Roe v. Wade, and the legalization of abortion. We also remember the pictures of women marching in the streets, fists in the air, claiming that they are free from man. A sorry scene, I must say. These women needed to realize that for them to be alive, somebody had to father them!
Along with Women’s Liberation came daycare. The women who did have children and wanted to work had to find care for them. Most often, these children ended up in state run daycares. See the connection? These children go from daycare to government school. The government is raising the children- and the government has an agenda. We’ll talk about that agenda in a minute. Without a good,close relationship with their parents and siblings, a teen or child cannot thrive and behave well. When someone other than the family unit cares for the child, an inner need goes unfulfilled. God made families to stay together, and the government seeks to destroy the family unit.
When families are separated and the children are in the hands of teachers at school, government values are passed down. These values mock family values and rules, telling the kids to think for themselves. When a family’s values are not passed down, moral decay begins. Basically, when experts, teachers, and even, in a roundabout away, the government officials all take part in doing the brunt of the work of child-rearing, the decline of the family happens.
It does not take a village to raise a child. Just two sound-minded people called parents.
What’s The Agenda?
Our government is not a small government. It is a big government, with a hand in your pocket and on your family, whether you like it or not. Along with big government comes power and greatness. Too much power is corruption: officials become power crazed.
Remember the politcal spectrum? It looks like this:
Communists Democrats Republicans
Left_v________v_______Centrist_______v________ Right
That’s the traditional scale for American politics. Three areas, with the two major parties in the center of each side. In recent years, the scale has shifted left.
Communists Democrats Republicans
Left_v__v___________Centrists_v___________Right
(The right being conservative, with moral standards based on Bible)
(The left being liberal in thinking,with relativism, no moral standard but your own)
The government is moving further left, and, as that happens, the ideals held by each party become more liberal and less godly. If this keeps happening, eventually we will turn into a socialist government.
Surprised? Communism didn’t come tumbling down with the Berlin wall. In fact, statistics show there are more communist-minded leaders today than there were when Germany was East and West, and when the USSR was booming. Look at China, look at Cuba- their leaders have the mind-set of a communist. Are communists happy? Not really. Don’t agree with me? Well, do you see any Floridans making boats and sailing to Havana, Cuba? Do we hear about people trying to escape capitalism and run to China for Utopia? Do we hear great things about Canada’s socialized medicine? No. We hear stories of struggle and hope for a brighter future under a better leader.
The communist/socialist dream is to have a community of women, a community of men, and a community of children, all sharing the wealth and working wherever the government tells them. Eventually all the government will fade away and everyone will know what to do without being told. That is called Utopia, and in order to get there Communists will lie, cheat and steal in our terms; but in their terms, it is called “truth.” This is proliteriat morality, which means anything that will further the agenda of communism is right. So, if they want to teach evolution in the government schools as right, it’s okay. The more people who believe their naturalistic, no absolute foundation of communism, the better.
Separating genders into their own distinct communities is anti-family and radical. I agree these communities are not happening yet in that way. But it is already happening with age-segregation classes, Sunday School, and youth groups. Segregation is a communist thing! It seeks to separate and ultimately destroy the family unit.
Many socialists/communists/progressives (these terms can be interchanged) from the past had a lot to say about America.
Josef Stalin said this:
America is like a healthy body, and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.
Wow! Think: the government has taken God out of the schools, and with help of the ACLU, He’s out of the public eye. While the kids are at school, they fend for themselves, using whatever works for them. Their parents don’t have the time to tell them what is right and wrong anymore. Our youth do what they please, with no morals! Without these three basic principles, our family life will crumble.
America is collasping from within.
We have a history of strong family life. Civilizations with these families are successful. When civilizations dismantle the family, the families in turn dismantle the culture. The civilization collapses.
Communists seek to destroy any civilization that is not socialist. Family life is anti-socialist: therefore, destroying that culture becomes the goal. According to the communist Frankfurt School, they “want to make the West [America] so corrupt it stinks.” They want to destroy America and all it’s greatness: they know if they can take over the culture, they can shape the masses. They are in our schools, our media, and our books. In fact, a book called the Naked Communist lists 45 goals that the Communists must accomplish to take over America. This list was published in 1963:
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Make church feel like a club with watered down gospel. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a religious crutch.
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. Indoctrinate them.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
Most of those are already accomplished!
It’s Not All the Schools Fault
Public, private or homeschooled, we all are bombarded by media. Liberal media.
Media is not neutral, nor can it be: it’s impossible to have unbiased media. It’s there to make or prove a point.
We all spend our free time consuming seemingly harmless shows such as CSI, The Biggest Loser, Wheel of Fortune, and Public Television; depending on your family’s ages. What time is not spent learning in school is usually spent watching TV. TV can be a great educational tool, with shows on TLC, National Geographic, and The History Channel. These types of shows are great! I’m not saying ban The Cartoon Network, but really think about how much TV you watch and what it’s putting in your subconscious active mind. I watch America’s Got Talent, Biggest Loser, 19 Kids and Counting, and occasionally something else. That’s all for the week. DVD movies are also added in at random, but I limit what I watch on a regular basis.
Listening to music is another family-time-stealer. Don’t keep those earbuds constantly in your ears. There’s a reason why all of our peers are beginning to fail hearing tests left and right. Listen to the iPod or Mp3 on long car rides at intervals, or in your room studying, or on your jog. Don’t listen to it unless you absolutely feel you must! (Be careful of addiction here.)
I know of a friend whose parents bought her off with an iPhone for Christmas, continually buying her Internet time, talk minutes, and giving her unlimited texting. At first, it was great! She said it filled her needs of staying on track with her schedule and friends. Then, she began to leave the dinner table early, meaning to do her homework from school. Every time, she would get caught up in texting and net surfing. When she pulled her eyes off the phone, she was usually shocked to see what time it was: often past midnight, with 3 hours of homework left to do!
It’s easy to slip off in media and get lost in it. I know. I am on the computer way too much, and I’ll admit that I need to stop that! It’s important to spend quality time with our parents. Don’t let the liberal, progessive media get in the way of that.
What To Do About It
It won’t be easy. The Communists are out to destroy the family, for the family is in the way of Utopia, or so they claim. I am not saying that the head of government, Barack Obama, is a ‘commie,’ but as a whole, our government isn’t ‘we the people’ anymore. It’s ‘we who have the power.’ Sure, we vote in who we think is best for the country, but often, the elected people are seeking to further their political careers. If you are a congressman or senator, I salute you if you are not doing that. I cheer you on for defending the liberty and will of the common people.
The truth is, most of these people in elected positions are liberals at the moment, with that said, we need to fight that agenda. Do not let them destroy your family. They may seem innocent, but remember, they are not redeemed. Do not expect redeemed behavior from unredeemed people. (Also, the Devil appears to be an angel of light. These people are still in darkness).
Here are some ideas of what you can do to strengthen your family, whether you are a teen or parent.
- Homeschool your children
- Monitor their media consumption.
- Stick around a little longer and talk with your family at meals. Try to eat at home and cook the meal together, too!
- Read C S Lewis books out loud.
- Do your homework in an area where your family is near. They can help you!
- Have devotions with your family.
- Try to have at least one night where the TV, cell phones, and other media are off. Play board games or go for a walk instead.
- Talk with each parent about what you can do together at lesat once a week. (Anything from “Hey Dad, let’s play soccer” to “What do you think if we started writing a devotional newsletter as a family?”
- Evaluate your movies, books, and magazines.
- Do some type of ministry where all of you get involved. If your sisters are the creative type, make cards and gifts for people. My family goes to an assisted living place once a month to do some ministry work for the people living there.
- Play often with your brothers and sisters if they are old enough.
- Be sure to vote if you are old enough! (I would not advise trying if you aren’t old enough!)
- As a family, write a kind letter to the president on something you believe firmly in.
- Have kids (ONLY IF YOU ARE MARRIED!) :_D :-p. This sounds funny outright, but it’s true. The world’s birthrates are dropping, thanks to abortion and feminists who choose deliberately not to marry. Think, if the people who aren’t saved don’t have babies… and Christians do… we can reclaim the nation! The world is not overrpopulated. We have plenty of space left. Have babies and raise them Biblically, and you have helped build a generation of Godly people! How cool is that?!
For more ideas, see the :: 100 things :: page. You may want to add a few ideas if you can think of them!
Remember that nothing will stop this decline unless there is action. Don’t think that somebody else will do the work. Everybody else is thinking the same thing you are! That’s how nothing gets done.
Take action! Be aware! Walk in the Spirit!
I’m praying for you.
Further Reading:
Understanding the Times by Dr. David Noebel
You Can Still Trust The Communists to be Communists by Fred Schwarz and Dr. David Noebel
So Much More by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
ACLU vs. America by Carl Osten
Musclehead Revolution by Kevin McCullough
Family Driven faith by Dr. Voddie Baucham
What’s your opinion on the state of the family?
) that requires nothing less than exact obedience all the time- even on minute issues. Hyperpatriarchs like to dictate what his daughters and wife wear, what they do, and where they go. They like to be in complete control and have the final say. They often ignore what their family has to say and go with what they want.
