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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