Gino (7 May 2017)
"What went wrong?"


 
I recently was sent a link to an eye-opening article:
Youth Are Turning Away from God: Churches Peddling 'Christianity Lite' Share in the Blame
I responded with the following, to which many probably wouldn't agree with, anyway:
We, as Christian parents, often sent our children to public school and then to secular university.
We convinced ourselves that our children would be different, that they wouldn't be affected in a negative way.
We made the same error as Lot, letting his children grow up in Sodom.
It's doubtful that Lot expected the affected outcome to be as negative as it was.
We, as Christian parents, early on, often put our young children in day care.
But did our children perceive any similarity to seeing their great-grand parents being put away somewhere also?
First, their very formative years were spent in daycare & kindergarten, with either, no, or liberal spiritual/moral guidance.
Then they moved next to 1st grade, learning to read, but not told that it was so that they could read the word of God for themselves.
Then next in 2nd grade they are introduced to evolution.
If evolution was only introduced in college, or even high school, it would not be as readily accepted.
But to introduce it, albeit in a simple form, at 2nd grade, it is much more effective.
They are just old enough to extrapolate conceptual knowledge beyond what they can only experience personally.
But yet they're still young enough to believe whatever they are told by people that they trust.
It is why 2nd grade is where they also first introduce the concept of the earth orbiting the sun, for the same two reasons.
Then the next year they learn how to write, but no longer are told to hand copy the scriptures.
Next, as they expand into math & science, they begin to be taught the glorification of man, because of what he can do.
Next comes social studies, where the most liberal and immoral concepts are fed to them.
Of course, all along the way, simultaneously their soul is tortured & slowly manipulated, also.
But how could that be?
It was via the TV shows, movies & music that they were allowed access to by us.
So by the time they are in university, they're ripe for being introduced to extremely anti-Christian, or even atheist, teachings.
Then as our children became young adults, on their own, we, the Christian parents wondered, "What went wrong?"