The War Against Children

Volume 2 1991

"Another generation grew up, who knew neither the Lord nor what He had done..." Judges 2:10

Is there a war against the children? How else can we explain the systematic destruction of a generation?

In much of Africa children are being decimated by starvation as a result of man made famines caused by corruption, superstition and socialism. They also often suffer the brunt of the incessant radicalisation, politicisation, conscription and warfare. Not only are children used as cannon fodder for revolutions but also as slave labour “foreign currency” to pay for Soviet and Cuban weapons for their governments. Not only politics and warfare but also malaria, cholera and AIDS are devastating an entire generation.

“I tell you the truth, as you did it to one of the least of these my bretheren, you did it to me.” Matthew 25:40

Yet it is not the children of Africa who are facing the most overwhelming onslaught.

Every year in the USA about 1,5 million young lives are ended by abortion. The USSR records over 7 million abortions a year. China and Europe account for even more.

America alone loses more lives through abortion EACH YEAR than their accumulative losses in all the wars they have ever fought throughout the last three centuries! Those babies who manage to survive their mothers’ wombs without being burnt, smothered, drugged, sucked limb from limb or cut to pieces by an abortionist face further threats.

The children of the West are being brought up on junk T.V., junk food, horror toys, and new age occultism. And their secular education is generally based on evolutionism, situation ethics, values manipulation, group dynamics and sensitivity training.

“See to it that no-one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.” Colossians 2:8

Children are facing unprecedented pressure from “drugs, sex, rebellion and rock and roll.” The music, fashions, fads and films that are dominating youth are often occultic, perverse and destructive.

“And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.” Mark 9:42

Recently the American televison program “20/20” presented a report on the “death education” being promoted in American schools. Among other things, the program showed: school children being taken to morgues to touch dead bodies; discussion groups discussing “who died last in your family?”; first-graders being given an assignment to make their own coffins out of shoe boxes; and eighth-graders having an assignment to write a suicide note. A common “practical” is to have students pretend they are in an overloaded lifeboat where they must decide which members of their families must be condemned to die.

Phyllis Schlafty’s book, “Child Abuse in the Classroom”, documents other abuses of education. The “nuclear education” so often graphically and relentlessly presents the horrors of war to seventh-grade (standard 5) classes that many children are reduced to tears.

Under the guise of “sex education”, “values clarification” and “health education”, fifth-grade boys are required to handle
naked models of girls and discuss personal details relating to women. Graphic videos with close-ups of all kinds of sex are also relentlessly shown to junior school classes to break down their inhibitions. Children who are reluctant to use embarrassing sexual terms are often forced to loudly repeat those words in class.

“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” Ephesians 5:11

What all these programs have in common is that certain humanists are out to force their own standards (or lack of them) on a captive audience of vulnerable children. The emotional and spiritual well being of these children does not seem to concern these fanatics.

“They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.” Psalm 106:37

The challenge before Christian parents is to return to the Biblical pattern of Christ-centred, home-based education and discipline. We can delegate some of the tasks of education but we can never delegate the God-given responsibility of parents to —

“train a child in the way he should go..." Proverbs 22:6

The only hope for the beleaguered children is God-honouring homes and churches where family values and moral standards are taught and lived. We also need to be involved in parents teachers associations, and fight to restore Christian moral standards to every area of life.

“Don’t be afraid ... remember the Lord who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.” Nehemiah 4:14

Peter Hammond

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