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The Pied Piper in the 21st Century

 One of the children's fairy stories that left me, as a child, quite disturbed was that of the Pied Piper.  I once read an interpretation of this that had to do with German immigration to Transylvania--maybe so--but to me it was about a man all dressed up in fancy clothes and with a magical pipe marching through the streets of Hamelin and stealing children.  What a fitting image for Western society in the 21st century.  Satan has revealed their (pronoun choice!) political platform, and it is to steal our children in heart, mind, and soul.

On my mind are issues such as: Abortion, genetic engineering, transsexual sports, drag queen story hours, gay marches, enforced learning about gender and sexuality in schools, sexually perverted book in the libraries, pornography, puberty blockers, sex change operations, making counselling sexually troubled youth identifying as the wrong gender illegal (outlawing 'conversion therapy'), making prayer near abortion clinics (in England) illegal, allowing underage children to seek euthanasia without a parent's consent (in Canada), suicide, social media's impersonal friendships and negative influence, gangs, street violence, taking foster and adopted children away from Christian parents (in Europe), arresting adults (England) or firing adults (US) publicly complaining about these things, attempts to normalise and accept pedophilia, allowing boys and men into girls and women's toilets, locker rooms, and dorm rooms, insisting on our using someone else's pronoun choices, reducing the age of statutory rape, rejecting distinctions between males and females, claiming men can give birth, rejecting a binary and biological understanding of gender and confusing and indoctrinating children about this, premarital sex, cohabitation, homosexual 'marriage,' absent fathers, and the damage done to children from violence in the home and families breaking up.

The Church has much to do in the face of this attack on our children, beginning with praying protection over the children, baptism/dedication of infants, and serious attention to catechism in the faith.  It needs to start and support many, many Christian schools.  It needs to speak up clearly and directly over the noise of the pied piper's pipe.  It needs to be publicly engaged in and stand up in opposition to the institutions and forces of society that would swallow our children.

O, church arise and put your armor on

Hear the call of Christ our captain

For now the weak can say that they are strong

In the strength that God has given

 

('Oh Church, Arise,' by Chris Tomlin, Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, and Stuart Townend) 


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