We spared the rod...
That is how we got here. Everyone wins, everyone gets a trophy, etc.
At no point in the last 40 years have we required discipline of or from the children. Raise up your children in the ways they should go and when they are old, they shall not depart from it.
But wait turn by the hands of time 60 years and I was just a babe, not yet even a yearling. I grew up in the age of ‘women can do anything,’ war riots in the streets, the drug culture being born, hippies were my elder siblings. God was proclaimed dead.
Nay, go back another generation and we witness the birth of the post war communist/socialist. There were many educated elites who embraced this idealic philosophy and many more who dared dream of such a utopia...even after witnessing the failures of Stalin, Mao. And yet, decades later the fall of the USSR is just a blip in this history.
That failure was not because they worshipped another god, it is because they declared there was No God. When one declares there is no God, one surrenders to the Nothingness. But...where there is nothing demons rush in.
One cannot have Freedom without Natural Law and Natural discipline as documented in the Bible. The free people must have some form of moral discipline or moral code. In all situations that require this God is the one sure answer and one sure path.
One nation under God, Flag Day 1954, that 4 word prayer was barely questioned until less than a decade later a generation was declaring God is dead. 20 years later they were pulling prayer out of schools, and soon you didn’t even need to participate in the Pledge. You see, God isn’t suddenly gone from our Nation, many have just started to really notice the effects of His Holy absence.
"That failure was not because they worshipped another god, it is because they declared there was No God. When one declares there is no God, one surrenders to the Nothingness. But...where there is nothing demons rush in."
Mystery Religions always consist of two circles. The largest circle is exoteric and consists of what the masses believed as taught by the inner or esoteric circle. Thus, for modern masses 'God is dead,' and nihilism reigns. But for 'Christian' esotericists, going back to the Renaissance, Jesus Christ was not the Son but the Christ Consciousness existing in their brains, making them illumined 'Pure Elects.'
Moving forward, today's global Transhumanists are the Pure Elect because:
"Within the philosophy of holism, all existing things can be described by a single system since mind and matter are formed from and reducible to the “ghost” (evolution/divine energy) operating the machine. With Darwinism for instance, God, mind, and spirit are reducible to the ultimate reality (energy field). In this scheme of things, divine energy emanating from the energy field operates within the neural complexity of the brain, meaning that divine consciousness (God reduced to divine energy) operates within the brains of the “enlightened” or “illumined” Elect, or Pure. This idolatrous way of thinking is in direct contrast to the Biblical teaching that though men are made in the spiritual image of God they do not partake of God’s being or “ghost operating the machine.” (Gen. 1:27)." Why the Technocratic World Order Rejoices in Evil and is the Spirit of Antichrist"
If interested in reading that essay, it is posted in the Religion Forum