Importance of History

History is the study of the way people, based on various religious worldviews, act through time to accomplish their goals. The study of history is vital because by looking back on the past, we can see how people’s decisions affected their fellow humans’ ability to flourish. As George Santayana famously admonished, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We thus need an accurate view of the past if we are to sustain trends toward greater wealth, justice, and sustainability. History can guide us to learn from our mistakes, act rightly in our current circumstances, and get better over time.

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.472

Economics

In Latin, the word for “economics” comes from the Greek word oikonomos, meaning “the art of running a household.” Economists study institutions and human beings, especially how they compete, cooperate, and distribute goods, services, and information. But economists don’t just study the world as it is. They also make claims about how it ought to be. Unfortunately, some economists are captive to utopian visions based on wrong assumptions about God, humans, and the world. This is why the answers to life’s ultimate questions matter so much in making economic decisions. 

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.470

Post-modernism and the End of Justice

Postmodernists focus on structures of society rather than the heart. They view as unjust anything resulting from traditional power structures, such as Christianity, the Enlightenment, heterosexism, or patriarchy. Therefore, the postmodern understanding of justice in relation to the law is not actually connected to any objective standards. Rather, it is the process of uncovering the various forms of oppression. This way of thinking continues to creep into judicial decisions, most recently—and notably—through the decision of Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy to overthrow the Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA) because he viewed it as oppressive to people experiencing same-sex attraction. In a similar vein, New Mexico Supreme Court justice Richard Bosson recently wrote an opinion reflection the view of the court that the refusal of a New Mexico photography studio to photograph a gay wedding violated the human rights of a gay couple. In these cases, the battle against “heterosexism” was seen to trump religious and economic freedom.

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.468

Survival of Society Requires Family Unit

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

DemoKrats Promote and Support Lawlessness

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

Sad State of American Schools

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

We Must Recognize God In Government

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.

LEFTISTS Are Social Anarchists

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

Public School is Destroying Children.

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

Virtue Is Not Behavior

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

LEFTISTs Are Godless and Without Truth

[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

LEFTISM Wants More Power

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