Societies can survive tragedy and economic disaster, but if the family falls apart, societal collapse is inevitable. Such unraveling is now a statistical reality. At its most basic level, the Christian sociological claim is that society functions best when organized around the natural family (father, mother, and children).
Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.466
The intense blowback against Trump’s efforts to restore law and order rams home the point that it is a deliberate choice by progressives to preserve lawlessness in their cities. When you think about it, the strategy seems to have paid off, if all you care about is power, since progressives have a generational stranglehold on the cities with the worst crime.
Lawlessness Is a Choice, by Miranda Devine. Imprimis, 10/25, Volume 54/Issue 10
In progressive schools today, rarely do children read “chapter books” before junior high or high school, if at all. Mostly they read “readers,” or short booklets written specifically for the classroom by ensconced educators, not recognized authors. These readers offer hollowed-out stories of little artistic value. Recently, many of these stories have been saturated with LGBT and CRT influence. They simplify reading skills to offer a manicured experience that can best be described as tedious. It’s no wonder so few children love to read in our age!
Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.204
Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first—the most basic—expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God’s help, it will continue to be.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Progressives replaced the old idea of divinely originated virtue with a new ethical system: anything goes between “consenting adults” and “your rights end where my nose begins” In other words, unless you directly hurt someone else, your values are just as valid as anyone else’s. This ethical construct often goes by the pseudonym “tolerance” or post-modernism.
Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.172
Our children are drowning—emotionally, academically, psychologically. Anxiety, depression, behavioral disorders, identity confusion, self-harm… all skyrocketing. Why?
Because children are being fed a worldview that denies reality, denies purpose, denies identity, denies God, denies design. They are being crushed under academic pressure, medicated into numbness, and handed a worldview that tells them nothing is true and they themselves are malleable clay to be reshaped endlessly into whatever earns approval.
We have replaced education with social engineering.
We have replaced learning with diagnosis.
We have replaced discipline with pharmaceuticals.
We have replaced moral formation with moral disintegration.
And now, schools—rather than admitting failure—tell parents that the answer is more therapy, more labels, more drugs, more surgical solutions.
Because if you can convince a ten-year-old they were “born in the wrong body,” you can justify anything.
Kevin McCullough, When Children Become the Lab Rats
A virtuous person loves the right and the good. Virtue is not behavior, though it nearly always results in behavior. Actions are the outworking of a person’s virtue, which is cultivated into his or her character. Under this Christian ethical system, any given choice is a function of virtue.
Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.165
[Progressives] don’t believe the law of God is written on the hearts of man. They don’t believe objective Truth exists and is discernible by reason. The Left, especially in our classrooms, has dismissed seeking objective Truth, and replaced it with their truth. Modern leftists didn’t make this happened overnight. They had progressive forerunners, most of whom they never met, intellectuals and practitioners who, without knowing what the future would hold, went to war with the foundation of Western civilization when those foundations were still strong in America. Separated from their Christian source, older American ideals were “cut flowers”—nice to look at, but destined to die.
Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.122
After the mid-1960s, the progressive hangover began. Art and music took to the base, the abstract, and the ugly. The predictable outcome of the anti-authority, free-sex, anti-family, and drug-friendly culture from the mid-1960s did untold damage. The progressive story continues today, but now with more power.
Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.121
it’s striking how quickly soft-on-crime policies at the state and local level destroy your day-to-day sense of safety. Progressive criminal justice “reforms,” such as defunding the police, ending cash bail, refusing to prosecute misdemeanors, letting thousands of convicted felons out of prison early, and slashing the prison population, are the most obvious contributors to the escalating violent crime problem in blue cities.
Lawlessness Is a Choice, by Miranda Devine. Imprimis, 10/25, Volume 54/Issue 10
Is it not ironic that the worldview proclaiming the corruption of humankind [Christianity] has led to so much good, while worldviews proclaiming the goodness of humankind have led to so much corruption? Marxism is the clearest example, having staked its credibility in direct opposition to biblical truth. It led to the slaughter of more than one hundred million people, more than twice the combined dead from World Wars I and II. Ideas have consequences. Good ideas have good consequences, and bad ideas have bad ones.
Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg. 459
A “progressive shibboleth that has turned blue cities across the country into lawless hellholes … holds that people who commit crimes have no agency—that they are helpless victims of circumstance. Therefore, any attempt to hold them accountable by arresting them or putting them in jail is unjust—it further victimizes them. The obvious result of this logic is that criminals are emboldened and their real victims become helpless hostages to lawlessness.
Lawlessness Is a Choice, by Miranda Devine. Imprimis, 10/25, Volume 54/Issue 10
