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To: annalex
explicitly Christian institutions should be built whenever possible, while secular institutions gradually abandoned.

Yes. The quick answer is, get your kids out of public school.

The bigger answer is something that churches are best positioned to lead, though it can't be limited to them. We can't achieve what we need to achieve by trying to steer a railroad train. We have to build the society we want to live in. Call it "parallel" institutions, thats as good a name as any.

Don't send your kids to State University. Find a college that better represents your values. Hillsdale is an example of the kinds of schools we should be supporting and building. Saint Thomas Aquinas, Gutenberg College, or maybe good old-fashioned military tech school. Don't give your opponents access to the minds of your most precious possession. Don't do it.

Turn off the junk on TV. With a hundred channels to choose from, there is no need to watch anything Hollywood puts out. Watch something uplifting, watch "flip this house", listen to music, or turn it off altogether. Play ball, play the accordeon, take the kids paint-balling, do anything but leave the junk TV off. You wouldn't track mud into your home, why ever would you let these people in?

Never turn on the alphabet networks for any reason; they are everything we reject. The day you refuse to tune them in is the day you start to get your own head clear and more importantly you block them from getting inside your kids' skulls.

If you're unchurched, consider doing something about that. Don't look for perfection, look for someplace you can contribute, and someplace that has kids who want to be there. If you do nothing else, your kids need to know that there are eternal principles that are worth living and dying for, and they need to know who God is. Fail at that and we don't have to worry what the politicians do to us.

6 posted on 12/11/2008 3:39:00 PM PST by marron
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To: marron
Excellent advice. Fro the article:

We will never succeed in taking over political structures until we can convince the American people that we can be trusted to take them over, and to do that we must win the people over culturally--by defining how man ought to act, how he ought to perceive the world around him, and what it means to live the good life. Political arrangements can only be formed after these fundamental questions have been answered.

Once this basic belief is accepted, our next task is to develop the means by which it can be put into practice. We must, as Mr. Weyrich has suggested, develop a network of parallel cultural institutions existing side-by-side with the dominant leftist cultural institutions. The building and promotion of these institutions will require the development of a movement that will not merely reform the existing post-war conservative movement, but will in fact be forced to supersede it--if it is to succeed at all--because it will pursue a very different strategy and be premised on a very different view of its role in society.

Our movement--which we will call the New Traditionalist movement--will not seek to immediately replace the dominant culture. A retreat will allow us to regroup and find our bearings. The overemphasis on effecting change through political activism has left us disoriented, distracted, and overly prone to accept the cultural assumptions of the Left. But this tactical retreat will ultimately lead to strategic victory.

A central mission of this movement is to advance a true traditionalist counter-culture based on virtue, excellence, and self-discipline. The New Traditionalists will not be exclusively Christians, but many of them inevitably will be.


7 posted on 12/13/2008 1:13:53 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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