Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
That way to go is not anything goes, serve the world and the prince of the air, the father of lies!
The parents of offspring between the ages of 25 to 34 years of age ought to be so proud of the lost generation they produced. I would write reared and raised, but it is clear from the views of those in the 25 to 34-year age group they were not reared or raised by God-fearing. Bible-literate, American history wise people. Who knows what or who reared the children that are now in that age group?
Most likely public schools, television, video games, and themselves.
They certainly were not taught in the foundations of the Holy Bible. Found in a sound doctrine Bible preaching, Bible teaching, Bible believing church. Nor did they attend a school that taught accurate American history.
I had always heard many people utter…
“Children are our future…”
but they never finished that thought or sentence.
…and oh what a future it will be!
And not a good one.
Spoiled lazy lost parents having spoiled lazy lost offspring. Most, parents and children in darkness, while also being darkness, in open rebellion against God. Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God.
Oh, yeah, let’s abolish sense, law, principles, the truth, the first amendment, and all ethics, morals, and true Christian life in America and begin putting people in jail, making criminals of them because many, and growing towards a majority want free speech to be criminalized. They don’t want to hear or read any words they personally don’t like or approve of. And if they hear them or read them?
Off with the head of the person who uttered or wrote them! Or at least arrest them and incarcerate them.
Yeah, children were and are the future, and oh what a horrendous present and future it is and will be!
It begins in the home. With the so-called adults. Who, having offspring have a responsibility to raise those children well.
And the evidence is that this has not occurred in America in the past 40 years or more.
We reap what we sow. We deserve what we deserve.
And contrary to Mr. Elbaum’s lost views and wrong roads taken in the article below, this is not merely a social, political matter of returning to an understanding of competing goods that must be weighed against one another — what a lame and lost view that is! Until people wake up and realize it’s about evil warring constantly with God’s righteousness nothing will begin to change for the better.
And at the rate of decline, unseen in history we are in it is unlikely all the dreamers, idealists, fantasists, and delusional are going to bring about the necessary change.
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 6:6-9
Yeah, that sounds like many an American family doesn’t it?
NOT!
And folks wonder why we are where we are and clearly heading to where it is we are headed?
Read on…
Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Thursday, July 20th, 2023
Here’s why 44% of young people want to criminalize using pronouns incorrectly
July 18, 2023
By Jack Elbaum
Reprinted from the Washington Examiner
The “wokest” generation is at it again. A new poll conducted for Newsweek found that “44% of those aged 25-34 think ‘referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun (he/him, she/her) should be a criminal offense,’ versus just 31% who disagree. The remainder ‘neither agree nor disagree’ or ‘don’t know.'”
This is a striking finding. It is one thing to take a particular stance on the “pronoun debate.” After all, different people can, in good faith, approach it in different ways — and even approach different cases in distinct ways. The purpose of this piece has nothing to do with the merits or demerits of using certain pronouns. Rather, it is about the fact it is quite a leap to express a desire to criminalize — put in jail, presumably — those who oppose one’s particular stance on the matter. Nevertheless, that is precisely what 44% of young people have done.
It is worthwhile to ask a simple question: Why?
One possible answer is it is just a natural consequence of the dominant values of our age. Knowledge of history, which could teach us that compelled speech is antithetical to the idea of a free society, has gone by the wayside. Fidelity to tradition, which ensures we do not make revolutionary changes without due thought, is now out of fashion. And a sense of humility, which endows people with the sense that the accumulated wisdom of the past may be greater than an on-the-fly thought in the present, has all but disappeared.
Instead, today, chief among the virtues is tolerance — and almost nothing else.
But this presents us with a bit of a problem: If we value tolerance more than anything else, then why do so many support draconian punishments — quite intolerant, if you ask me — for those who use incorrect pronouns? The answer is that the only way to maintain tolerance in the public square is by not allowing intolerance. It may seem inconsistent, but even the most tolerant of societies must be intolerant of something. After all, there is no such thing as a society without any standards. Creating a world reflective of what one cares about necessitates at least some gatekeeping — even if it is quite limited. And consequently, intolerance cannot be allowed if tolerance ought to rule the day.
But while tolerance is an important value, many have started to consider it in isolation rather than in balance with other values. In this case, it could be values such as freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and lack of knowledge about unintended consequences. It is easy to elevate one value above all others and consider it to the exclusion of all others. But it is profoundly imprudent to do so. And this seems to be precisely the trap some are falling into.
This leaves us with one possibility as to why 44% of young people want to criminalize wrong pronoun use: It offends the most basic value of contemporary American society — a value too many, consciously or unconsciously, have decided no longer must be balanced with any others that are similarly crucial to a functioning society.
We have lost the sense that there are always competing goods that must be weighed against one another while coming to policy decisions. Until we get it back, we should not be surprised when people continue to believe some pretty bizarre things.
Jack Elbaum is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.
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