I realize there are some upstanding, moral, possessing good values and a faith in God, faith and obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ young people walking about in our world. I’m not some narrowminded vicious soul if perhaps that is the consensus.

I used to hear adults frequently exclaim, “Children are the future!”

I had people say that directly to me. I’ve heard it on television, and I’ve read it in articles and things I’ve read.

“Children are the future!”

And beginning about 30 years ago I would tell anyone I met that said those words to me, “Please, finish the sentence, the thought.”

And they would blankly look at me for the most part, or say, “What?”

And I would reply, “Children are the future, and oh what a future it will be!”

With an intonation of dread rather than joy and delight. Why? Because most folks fail to think things through and are convinced in large part that children born in the last 30 years are somehow more special, more intelligent, and more gifted than any previous generation in world history. And are thus more deserving of worship. The Bible addresses this. When people, adults who ought to know better permit themselves to be led by children.

I also am keenly aware that the overwhelming majority of people of a certain age, say under the age of 35 or so do not merely desire anyone over that age to be a walking apology — they would be most happy if most of the folks aged 50, 60 and older would just disappear. Be gone.

There was a time, where at the end of every article posted online a person could leave comments. There was always open access to writing and reading comments on any given article. The end of such openness is also one change most folks don’t realize or ever mention now. And I was keen to spend a lot of time reading the comments left by people which provided a clear, true insight into the actual hearts and minds of the population. At least the population that had access to a computer and the Internet and took the time to comment.

If I had $10.00 for every comment I read that was almost word for word the following;

“As soon as all the old people die we can finally have the world we want.”

Or;

“If we could only get rid of all the old people everything would be right in this world.”

I’d have a lot of money.

I believe there were so many comments of that nature it is one factor as to why comments are no longer open to the public online.

A percentage of the population of people under the age of 35 or so would have no problem with the extermination of almost everyone over the age of 60. Sound harsh? Ridiculous? They have no qualms or discomfort within them at any and every genocide taking place — especially those of Christians, of people in places they feel superior to. They have no objections to assisted suicide or euthanasia. They have no objections to the premeditated murder of human children ripped from the womb and ripped apart, murdered. Why, they organize, march, scream, and threaten if their supposed sacred right of premeditated murder — due to their sexual immorality — is removed. They certainly, many of those under the age of 35, or so, would have no troubled hearts or minds with the extermination of almost everyone over a certain age, of course, to be determined by them, since they have become the arbiters of everything in these last of the last days.

Might sound drastic and incomprehensible but do not readily dismiss the statement many under the age of 35 or so want the majority of those over 60 or so to vanish. To be forever gone. The only way for that to happen is via mass extermination or by some unusual occurrence the majority of people over the age of 40 plus to die within a week, or a month and be forever gone.

Leaving those under the age of 40 or so to have all the world to themselves.

And I’m sure in their selfish frenzy of joy if such a thing occurred [but how would all those living at home and not working, living off ma and pa manage?] as the majority of folks under the age of 35 or so denounce God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Bible, as well as denouncing and refusing to accept history and inherent human nature there would be no more conflict, wars, famines, the climate would be restored to near perfection, there would be no opinions offered up but the universal ones and the world would finally become the Utopia it is thought to be meant to be by the human mind turned from God and inward to itself.

Right?

What’s that? They don’t mock God, or denounce God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, or the Bible? Well, the evidence reveals the majority are more concerned with saving the earth than saving their eternal souls.

And if totally forthright in addressing the subject many, if not most would approve of the majority of people alive and over the age of 60, 70, or 80 would just die and let them create the world they imagine to be perfect.

And they haven’t abandoned God and are not given over in their minds to serving evil, serving self?

Yes, children are the future, and presently we’re witnessing what that future will be like.

Bringing about the fulfillment of every word within the Word of God.

How can I write such things? Because the family has been dissolved. Sexual immorality is the rule and way. The foundations are not taught and any existing foundation is targeted for destruction and removal.

Most have never attended a Christian church or been raised in a Christian family with a mother [female] and a father [male] wherein the father was a true Christian man and the mother a true Christian woman.

I should not need to point this fact out. It should be understood in basic observation of societal erosion and decline over the past three to five decades, even going back to when this focused and accelerated decline began which was shortly after World War II.

Those born in the late 1940s and 1950s were reared on material prosperity, and Dr. Spock, television, and the revival of paganism as the New Age movement blossomed and came to fruition in the 1960s for just a few examples of causes for the decline, the turning from God and the Bible, the dissolution of ethics, morals and foundational values that existed for millennia. And the world is still paying for that. With greater payment yet to come.

Due to the offspring of that generation. My generation. And the resulting offspring of my generation.

Tragically.

Yes, children are the future, but let’s complete the thought, the sentence, and oh what a future it has turned out to be…and is yet to be revealed…

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:5-9

I’m part of the problem. Yes, my generation. The generation of the great rebellion. The tearing down of the foundations. Who bore the offspring of the offspring ushering in the future we presently are witnessing and the days to come. Which can be learned by getting ahold of a Bible, opening it, praying and asking for discernment, and discovering the past, present, and future found nowhere else.

Only in God’s Word.

Is it truly any wonder we are witnessing what we do daily see, hear, and know?

What do the children grow to become?

Ahh, that is the answer. Few are willing to acknowledge. Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, truly, or children of rebellion and disobedience?

Just look around. Just listen. Just inhale deeply.

Is it all bad? Certainly not, but much of what takes place on a daily basis and is accepted as, well, that’s just the way it is didn’t happen only 30, 40, 50 years ago.

The children have brought the future with them. And we’re presently living it. Just imagine what is yet to come…

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, July 4th, 2023

Gen Z want anyone over 30 to be a walking apology for the past

3 July 2023

By Celia Walden

Reprinted from The Telegraph

Warning: this column may contain the language and attitudes of the author’s time. Readers sensitive to any thoughts that do not directly cohere with the accepted views of today, please take note.

You won’t have been surprised to hear that a trigger warning like this one has been slapped on a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel, To The Lighthouse, intended for an American readership.

When I saw the headline in this paper on Sunday – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Publishers – I just nodded numbly to myself. That’s where we are now. In a topsy-turvy land beyond outrage, where something that defies all sense… makes perfect sense.

“I mean she’s old, isn’t she?” I thought to myself as I began to read the article. “Also dead. So poor old Virginia’s probably committed some heinous posthumous crime against the perma-offended.”

Maybe she called one of the characters “fat”, like Roald Dahl in the recently scrubbed clean Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or made some “racist” reference to a character’s “brown” skin, as Enid Blyton did in her also now-censored Famous Five, or alluded to someone’s “lovely white teeth”, as Agatha Christie was condemned for doing in one of her Miss Marple mysteries.

Then again, it’s also possible she used the defamatory term “woman”.

Curious to know which of the smorgasbord of potential violations had been committed, I read on – until I reached the paragraph where it was explained that “experts have not identified any controversial content in the 100-year-old novel based on the writer’s own treasured childhood holidays to St Ives.”

Virginia Woolf – Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images© 

Provided by The Telegraph

Wait – what? Nothing? No, the “problematic” issue with Woolf is, according to Vintage (owned by Penguin) more generalised. So generalised, in fact, that her only crime is to have written a novel containing the “language” and “attitudes” of her time.

Woolf is guilty not just of having lived in the past, but of having recorded the past as she experienced it; of having been born too long ago – at a pre-enlightened time when we were naive enough to believe, among other things, that only women could give birth.

Even in our topsy-turvy world, we’ve crossed a Rubicon here, into a parallel universe where the past is in, and of itself, offensive. As Woolf specialist Prof Mark Hussey, from Pace University in New York, told The Sunday Telegraph: “it’s indeed bizarre to treat the past as a scary place”.

To be clear: it is a scary place. Bad things happened in the past. Good things too, but let’s concentrate on the bad, as is our wont: on the sexism, the racism and the exclusion that we must, for mental-health reasons, pretend never existed. But I have a question, the same one asked by Prof Hussey, as it happens, and that is: “What date are publishers going to choose as their cut-off?”

Since it’s generally agreed that rightful-thinking began in earnest with Gen Z, should we go ahead and expunge every painting, sculpture, monument, book, expression and thought created before, say, 1997 – when the first Zoomers were born?

Let’s be generous, round it up, and force everyone over the age of 30 to be walking apologies of the past: living, breathing mea culpas. Let’s put everyone who had the audacity to be born too early in T-shirts emblazoned with the disclaimer: “May contain the language and attitudes of our time”.

That way, halo-topped youngsters can block their ears, cover their eyes and, most importantly, hold their noses when they see us coming. Because the past doesn’t half stink.

Anyone timorously suggesting that one can learn from what came before the all-eclipsing YOU, that occasionally the past even comes around again, is missing the point. The cancel culture warriors know it all. They’ve read it all on social media. We, the conveyors of “language and attitudes of the past” are the ones who need to unlearn and relearn. Only it’s extraordinary how intolerant they are of any slowness on our part.

Any accidental use of the wrong pronoun, expression of the wrong thought, or clumsy attempt to express the right thought will have you told off. It may even cost you your job, as former Arts Council England official, Denise Fahmy, knows only too well.

To the Lighthouse – BBC British Broadcasting Corporation© 

Provided by The Telegraph

Last week, an employment tribunal heard how the British mother-of-two was called a “cancer that needs to be removed” by colleagues after expressing the belief that sex is binary in the workplace. Then again, Fahmy is 55, so by the current “anything older than 30 must go” logic, she probably needs to be surgically excised anyway.

I might have come up with the answer to the generational split being stoked by cowardly firms and institutions across the first world, however. A pact that could potentially work for everyone and shouldn’t be hard for either side to stick to.

Therapists have been using it to mend broken relationships for decades. Simply put: I’ll listen to your perspective if you listen to mine. Not much to ask for, but it would mean – to use one of Gen-Z’s favourite expressions – not “denying our lived experiences”.

And that includes Woolf’s, Dahl’s, Blyton’s, Christie’s, even if they contain language and attitudes that are not your own.