“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”
Romans 1:28-32 ESV
A story broke the other day about a public high school in Eugene, Oregon where a teacher, Kirk Miller, assigned students the task of writing a short story about a sexual fantasy.
Yes. Seriously.
“For those students who were absent, you will write a short story of a paragraph or two. This story is a sexual fantasy that will have NO penetration of any kind or oral sex (no way of passing an STI),” the assignment reportedly read.
A few things about this.
First, since when does a paragraph or two constitute a short story? Good grief. It’s bad enough that our schools are openly and actively grooming our children. Must they make them morons as well? In all sincerity, joking aside, there’s a direct connection between destroying a generation’s critical thinking skills and perversion. Sin is always irrational and true freedom in Christ yields the wonderful fruits of truth in a mind devoted to Him, able to “test all things.” The fact that our schools and universities are so dumbed down and illogical is a direct consequence of their hostility to God and His response in judgment. In giving our country over to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done we see horrible stories like this one.
Second, Mr. Miller added that the “story should show that you can show and receive loving physical affection without having sex.” Students were encouraged to include objects like candles, massage oil, feathers and flavored syrup. Note that Mr. Miller, a grown man, an authority figure, a product of the education-political complex, has told teenagers that moral law doesn’t apply to sexual conduct. Love is sex, he’s telling them. Proverbs 7 is out the window and instead of being worried about the wages of sin, Mr. Miller teaches that the only thing to fear is a sexually transmitted disease.
So, you see, there’s an ethic involved but it’s an evil one. That’s always the lie: that we can be neutral. The public schools are literally shiny and resplendent castles built upon the festering dung hill of the myth of neutrality. The ethic is that there is no God and man is absolutely free of moral restraint. The public schools are the seminaries of Satan. How much longer before Americans realize the connection between humanism’s hatred of God and our acceleration toward Sodom? This evil teacher, Mr. Miller – and he is absolutely rotten and dangerous – and his institution have children captive under the myth that they’re neutral. But what’s really happening is that they’re saying there is no God. Or at least not a real God…maybe a puny one who you can pretend to worship on Sunday morning, but He’s not allowed in the “real world.”
Real education is ultimately an integration. It’s a systematic. True knowledge is and must be non-contradictory and comprehensive. Its philosophical presuppositions, theory of knowledge, and ethical structure must all be consistent with one another. It’s for this reason that the beginning of knowledge is the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 1:7). When God and His normative precepts aren’t preeminent in our thinking and action we have disintegration of the mind, not education. Modern education is for this reason a lie because it’s philosophically inconsistent with the fact that this is God’s world and man is created in His image. Modern schools teach a chance universe with no rational basis for moral law and then busy themselves on teaching their own moral code (hedonism). To put it another way: the very people who say there are no moral absolutes are the most virulent moral absolutists!
Oh, that Christians would be as faithful to God’s word-law as humanists are to their mongrel and arbitrary codes.
God is the ultimate reality. A public school lies to children by telling them that reality and their own life is accidental…just because. This fracture has led to the burgeoning violence, depression, and hedonism we see growing like ethical weeds around us. In “giving them over” to the consequences of their faulty reasoning, God removes His grace. And a world without grace is one without meaning, love, and truth. To tell a child there’s no God is to tell them there’s no truth or meaning to their life. Can anything be, in fact, more hateful than that? Under the guise of education our schools have eviscerated truth as America stumbles around like a boxer who has received a heavy blow to the chin. She (America) is still standing, but only upon the legs of previous generations. She’s going down and down and down because God is ultimate and all things are His.
Third, a parent replied, wisely we add, “If an adult male asked my daughter to share her sexual fantasies with him, I would be livid and be going to the police. No teacher has any business asking this of a child.” He’s right. This is grooming, pure and simple. We live in a world of laws – physical and moral. Men rarely directly challenge physical laws since the results are so immediate. But moral law is greater than the physical because God is ultimate. The warning shots of destruction and wrath are all around us. There’s great concern about social media evils like Tik Tok and all that. The gossip, slander, and covetousness are clear to see. Ask yourself: is America growing more righteous and peaceful or less? Is America more virtuous without God over the last few decades, or less? Are kids happier and more educated, or less?
You know the answer. And the weight of the moral law, like gravity, is pulling us down even to the point where a grown man has the foolishness to promote sexual sin publicly to children. Indeed, as the parent opined, a grown man that was sexually grooming my child would be in danger. Yes, physical danger. This is no laughing matter. It’s no small thing.
“A fool’s lips bring contention and strife, And his mouth invites a beating.”
Proverbs 18:6 AMP
“Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.”
Proverbs 19:25 ESV
A Godly society that understands the correct spheres of sovereignty would see any adult who grooms a minor child and/or exposes them to sexual perversion, physically punished by the civil magistrate. A properly functioning state would see any teacher or drag queen or any other adult who publicly and deliberately exposes minor children to sexual sin arrested and punished. This isn’t a maybe, but a must. A child is a real victim in such cases and God’s law demands that the criminal be punished.
Your author has been challenged in the past, indeed even maligned, by confused Christians who took issue with his stance on our drug war. It’s a great example of how confused even Christians are about God’s order for civil society and what freedom truly means. The proper spheres of sovereignty between family, church and state are taught in Scripture. God is ultimate. Only He is and, therefore, He’s the source of all law and structure. Man’s sin problem is so bad – a heart problem of moral rebellion – that it can only be fixed by Christ, not the sword. This means that the church has no physical sword, but a spiritual one. But it also means that the state has one job, given to it by God, and that’s to punish criminals. The church has the Word and the state has the sword. The family has a lot of power over a few people (children). The church as a bit of spiritual power over many people (congregants). The state has a little power over lots of people (citizens).
We’ve rejected this structure and that’s how we’ve arrived at our modern Sodom.
According to Scripture, Romans 12-14 and 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 in particular, there’s no warrant for God’s civil magistrate to punish with violence (arrest and incarceration) someone for doing or possessing drugs or alcohol. Doing drugs is a sin but not all sin is a crime. A crime is when we violate the God-given rights of another person and drug use doesn’t meet that criteria. For this I’ve been accused of “condoning drugs.” On the contrary, I loathe them but that’s not the issue. A robust understanding of God’s word/law, and the power of the gospel, leads to the inevitable understanding that our use of force – privately in self-defense or through the civil magistrate – can only be done within strict guidelines. Violence and law will never change men’s hearts. Only the gospel will do that. Therefore, violence can only be used by individuals and/or the state (police/military) in the event of direct harm.
A drunk driver who kills someone or even badly injures them in a crash deserves the death penalty according to the precepts of Scriptural case law. There’s a true victim and they (the driver under the influence of drugs or alcohol) must be punished. Many of my critics find this barbaric. They champion the arrests and imprisonment of a dude doing drugs but are aghast at the death penalty for someone who actually hurts someone. That’s moral confusion right there.
“For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.”
Romans 13:3-4 ESV
But because of sin our moral compass is all askew. We use law now in an almost messianic nature – trying to make men good. The gospel is excluded because we don’t believe anymore that man has a sin problem. We don’t believe God’s word/law and see it as preeminent in all matters so our paths are utterly crooked. The thought that a man doing drugs is a criminal but an entire institution teaching sexual perversion to minor children is not only goes to show you how debased we’ve become. You see, life and culture is theological. This is either God’s world or it isn’t. The culture, as evidenced through our schools, have grown more militant in its opposition to the Lord. This is the logical consequence of sin’s war against God.
The question is always that of Romans 4:3…what does Scripture say? If we try and build our lives and culture on humanism we’re erecting elaborate sand-castles on the beach at low tide. And a hurricane of God’s moral law is coming. If we build upon His perfect and life giving precepts, more precious than any commodity or possession on earth, we have life. Why? Because God is the ultimate reality, remember? Moral law is like gravity, only eternal and, therefore, more real because it is literally God’s nature. Gravity is a law of the created order that we must obey. Moral law is more real in that it’s not “just because” but a “must” of reality due to the fact that God is source of it.
In all, what we’re seeing in such schools is the result of the decision to repress the knowledge of God and the fantastical lie that He hasn’t made Himself clear. To say such a thing is to call God a liar. It’s to the shame of modern Christianity that we – yes, even we – don’t believe Him.
“For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”
Romans 1:19-20 ESV
This is what’s happening in our schools/culture. This is why. We’ve rejected God and He’s responded by “giving us over” to the consequences of our decisions. We aren’t good. Without Christ and God’s grace we are so very, very evil…even to the point of sexualizing our children. Look. Look carefully at it and consider. See where it’s going and how much worse it will get. The answer isn’t politics, but theology. A faithful man or woman, living for God in their home, vocation, and church, fueled by the sermons, prayer, sacraments, and fellowship of a Word-faithful church, is the key. We must repent and turn to Him and read His word-law faithfully. And we must, absolutely must, not have our children in public schools. Sure, there are “nice” and “well-meaning” people still working in that fetid institution. That’s not the point. The point is that we must not give our innocent children over to the false-ideology and humanistic teachings of the false-god state. If you can’t afford a private school, then homeschool. If you can’t do that – and it will cost you – then go to your church and seek help. This is serious business.
Education is not, nor ever was, the state’s business. That’s a humanistic premise that Christians have accepted. Your child doesn’t belong to the state, but to God. Get them out. Get them out now. They aren’t neutral, so don’t pretend to be either. Choose. Choose the Lord.
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