This is what happens when “Man wants to speak the ultimate and authoritative word.” Article by Doug Wilson.
Ontario Liberals to introduce updated version of sex education curriculum pulled in 2010 over religious objections
The new sex ed. curriculum will teach the following. Much of what would be taught would fall under the criminal code of “sexual interference” a few (better) years ago. My quick list below is not in any particular order of importance, and most will be explicit in their instruction, but some will be implied. The destruction of faith and family has always been a stated goal of Marxist thought, and is certainly a goal of Cultural Marxism.
- Sex is a personal choice, and the authority of parents and religious faith are secondary to the self.
- The human person is autonomous. Nothing should impede personal freedom.
- Gender (male/female) is a social construct. The child may change gender at will, and identify with any number of options (see Facebook).
- Number in a sexual union is a social construct.
- Abortion is not evil, nor something which should bring shame or guilt.
- Abortion is acceptable for any reason at any time in a pregnancy, including the abortion of a baby of an undesired sex.
- Abortion is a good way to prevent children with birth defects from being born.
- Male, Female, single or two are optional and interchangeable in raising children. There is no preference to a stable, male/female parented family.
- Divorce is not a tragedy or failure.
- Sex before marriage in inevitable, so all precautions must be taken.
- Whatever you wish to do with your body is good and wholesome, as long as it is consensual and done safely.
- The State owns children.
- The State defines what constitutes marriage and family.
- The State supersedes religious faith and family.
- What is considered taboo now may well be approved by the State at a later time.
- Marriage is not for the endurance of the natural life of the married, and any number of unions may occur in a person’s life.
- Sodomy is not a sin, nor unnatural, nor a problem to solve. It is as normal and healthy as heterosexuality.
- Church and family must defer to State authorities on these matters.
What the Educational establishment doesn’t know (or does know and refuses to heed), is that Jesus words are true:
Matthew 18:5–6 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
The One Great Obstacle to Human Independence
The Bible is probably more ignored than attacked in Canada today, and that probably goes for much of North America and the West. But when it is read, and read seriously, attempts to bring its teachings to real application is met with an incredulous hostility. It might seem that this is a contemporary problem, but it is quite old.
Consider this quote:
“It must be evident to all who pay close attention to the spiritual conditions of our day that there is being made at this time a very determined and widespread effort to set aside entirely the authority of the Bible. Let us note that one of the unique characteristics of that Book is that it claims the right to control the actions of men. It speaks “as one having authority.” It assumes, and in the most peremptory and uncompromising way, to rebuke men for misconduct, and to tell them what they shall do and what they shall not do. It speaks to men, not as from the human plane, or even from the standpoint of superior human wisdom and morality; but as from a plane far above the highest human level, and as with a wisdom which admits of no question or dispute from men. It demands throughout unqualified submission.
But this assumption of control over men is a direct obstacle to the democratic spirit of the times, which brooks no authority higher than that of “the people,” that is to say, of Man himself. To establish and to make universal the principles of pure democracy is the object, whether consciously or unconsciously, of the great thought-movements of our era; and the essence and marrow of democracy is the supreme authority of Man. Hence the conflict with the Bible.
Not only is the Bible, with its peremptory assertion of supremacy and control over mankind, directly counter to the democratic movement, but it is now the only real obstacle to the complete independence of humanity. If only the authority of the Scriptures be gotten rid of, mankind will have attained the long-coveted state of absolute independence, which is equivalent to utter lawlessness.”[1]
The language, more complex than we’re used to, might give it away. It was written as a chapter in The Fundamentals, in 1909, by New York Attorney Philip Mauro. I quote it because it is so prescient to our own times. We humans make it our business to remove ourselves under the authority of Scripture, and replace it with the authority of the poll. We’ve been doing it a long time.
[1]Mauro, Philip. Chapter VII: Life in the Word. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2005.