If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? —Luke 11:11 NKJV
Some of the things I have come to think and believe about our society and culture come from connecting dots from various articles or books I have read. These points don’t necessarily fit in an explicit way, but they connect in a way that makes sense to me. Here is an example:
John Hinderacker of Power Line blog had an interesting post about how leftist school administrators are working to indoctrinate our children into the racial and sexual fads of the day. In his post, he linked to an article that includes a quote from a school administrator: Whenever they follow the Google Doodle links or whatever, right, we make note of those kids and the things that they bring up with each other in chats or email or whatever,” Baraki can be heard to say. Beyond electronic surveillance of kids’ internet use, “we use our observations of kids in the classroom—conversations that we hear—to personally invite students. Because that’s really the way we kinda get the bodies in the door. Right? They need sort of a little bit of an invitation,” Baraki says in the clip.
As Hinderacker notes, these people are actually stalking our kids. A link on Instapundit goes to a Federalist story about a Los Angeles school sponsored LGBT club that includes kids down to four years old. When I read those posts and the linked material, I think about the bible verse at the beginning of this blogpost. There is a connection there.
Similarly, I saw a link to an article on Instapundit about a family in Wisconsin who was suing a school district that refused to listen to the parents’ objections to the school using male pronouns for their 12-year-old daughter.
This reminded me of a passage from The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp. In the days after the Anschluss, the Trapp family had to listen to lies on the radio, be careful of what they said in town or at school, and be prepared to give up everything. “How long would this go on? The children came home from school saying that this or that old teacher wasn’t there any more, new teachers, even a new principal taking their places. ‘This morning, we were told at the assembly that our parents are nice, old-fashioned people who don’t understand the new Party. We should leave them alone and not bother. We are the hope of the nation, the hope of the whole world. We should never mention at home what we learn at school now.’” [Emphasis added.]
I wonder if the people who run these schools ever make the connection that their intellectual forebearers were Nazis and Communists. As Pink Floyd most eloquently sang, “Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!”
