We have abandoned our children. We have relinquished responsibility for their discipline, well-being and nurture. We have connived at state-sponsored child abuse, meekly accepting the new Relationships and Sex Education likely to confuse children for life.
Not only have we allowed this social engineering to be imposed on vulnerable young people to the extent that many won’t know whether they are Arthur or Martha, but we have completely cut off the restraining leash of responsible parenthood to let the tail wag the dog, so to speak.
Little wonder that many of our children are less inclined to show courtesy and respect to the adults who have been charged with their care, and now seem to be dictating how we should live and work, and even do politics.
Absence of Bible Knowledge
Head-teachers all over the country (and the world, apart from China) last Friday gave their pupils a day off school to protest about climate change – something that is largely out of our hands, even if it is a genuine concern.
Ten-year-old Kaia, protesting in Stroud, is quoted as saying: “I am very, very worried there could be a terrible flood and hurricanes if we don’t stop and do something. I worry about the animals a lot.”1
This is what becomes of a generation of schoolchildren who know little or nothing about the Bible, which would have taught them that God is in ultimate control (certainly of the weather) and that he promised never to flood the earth again after righteous Noah and his family (and the animals) were saved in the Ark.
We have completely cut off the restraining leash of responsible parenthood to let the tail wag the dog, so to speak.
Our Own Saviours
Yes, with our natural tendency for sin and rebellion, we have given the devil a helping hand in terms of all that has gone wrong with our environment. But the children of former generations would have learnt to sing in their assemblies that the Almighty has ‘the whole world in his hands’ – though, in God’s time, the present earth will be destroyed and replaced by a new one (2 Peter 3:10-13; Rev 21:1).
Tragically, however, the atheistic liberal agenda of our ‘educated’ elite has left pupils without any hope, except to ‘save the planet’ by their own efforts. For without God, we have no hope.
They have brainwashed our children with the most appalling propaganda that will only lead to increased rebellion, confusion and chaos. Instead of gently guiding and instructing our youth in the way they should go (Prov 22:6), we turn them into wet blankets as we molly-coddle the life out of them – driving them to classes when they would benefit more from a brisk walk, and succumbing to their every whim and whimper.
As a result, they have little chance of being able to differentiate between right and wrong because they’ve been told so often to do whatever seems right in their own eyes. Hence national crises of obesity, promiscuity, knife crime, self-harm and suicide. Meanwhile we encourage a herd mentality dictated by ever-changing fashions from tattoos to torn jeans.
Petulant Protests
A Swedish teenager started the children’s climate change ball rolling this time last year by playing truant in order to advance her campaign and within 12 months has become a worldwide icon. It would have been better if the media had ignored the young lady’s petulant protest and instead focused on more important news.
Which brings me to point out that while kids the world over were joining in last week’s protest, the children of China – the biggest polluters of all – were tucked up safely in class, forbidden from taking part. But shouldn’t that have been the case here too? Parents get fined for taking their children out of school for holidays at more affordable times – why not for allowing them to strike?
As for important news, the evidence for an imminent implosion of our planet is flimsy. Whereas Iran, the world’s leading sponsor of terror, is fast developing nuclear capability which it fully intends using. A world war could be triggered at any moment. But obviously that is not being taught to our kids as it’s far too politically incorrect to suggest that fanatical Islam is a major cause of the world’s troubles.
Our children have little chance of being able to differentiate between right and wrong because they’ve been told so often to do whatever seems right in their own eyes.
Institutional Bias
Talking of news, it was hugely refreshing to witness BBC icon John Humphrys – until now constrained by rules that stop journalists expressing their own opinions – expose his erstwhile employers for having an “institutional liberal bias”.2
In a book being serialised in the Daily Mail3 just days after his retirement, he chastises the ‘Kremlin’-style corporation for being out of touch with the people. Relishing freedom from the ‘BBC Thought Police’ after more than 50 years, he says it has “tried to mould the nation into its own liberal-left image”. Accusing the Beeb of ‘social engineering’, he writes: “It should not try to create society in its own image,” adding: “It worries me that the nation has become susceptible to certain pressure groups in a way that we should all find disturbing.”
A more controversial broadcasting icon, Piers Morgan, has decried the culture that requires everyone “to think and behave in a certain way,” saying: “Liberals have become utterly, pathetically illiberal…What’s the point of calling yourself a liberal if you don’t allow anyone else to have a different view?”4
So, why haven’t we been protesting about liberal bias at the BBC, of which many of us have for too long been painfully aware? Could we not have withheld our licence fees in a mass protest that could have brought the institution down quicker than a collapsing Thomas Cook? Instead of our children being out on the streets shouting the odds about climate change, why aren’t their parents waving placards objecting to the brainwashing of their offspring, captive to teachers more concerned at instilling fear over melting ice-caps than the dire threat of nuclear hell posed by rogue states?
Wicked men will die from lack of discipline (Prov 5:23) and, whatever our EU-influenced laws may say, the ultimate Law says: “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.” (Prov 13:24).
References
1 Daily Mail, 21 September 2019
2 Ibid. Humphrys’ revelations are drawing fire for hypocrisy
3 A Day Like Today to be published by HarperCollins on 3 October at £20
4 Coalition for Marriage, 28 August 2019
