The God of our Fathers
Karl Marx understood the importance of cross-generational bonds to Christian culture, and since he wanted to destroy Western civilization, he systematically sought to separate children from their parents. Under the guise of ‘protecting children’ from their exploitative and incompetent bourgeois parents, Marx advocated the abolition of home schools and the development of ‘social’ schools. His opponents, who mistakenly thought Marx wanted what was best for society, warned that these schools would “destroy the most hallowed of family relations.” Marx dismissed their warning, because the abolition of the family was actually part of his plan.
Thus, the tenth plank of Marx’s Communist Manifesto called for “Free education for all children in public schools.” The Tennessee constitution and many other state constitutions adopted Marx’s tenth plank and it has produced exactly what Marx’s opponents said it would. The public schools along with popular culture have worked together to successfully separate each generation from the previous generation. At a tender age, children are taken from their parents and herded into a public school classroom where they develop a loyalty to both the state and to their own peers. The popular media then plays its part, encouraging each peer group to form a ‘new generation’ to adopt a new music, a new style of dress, new morals, essentially a new culture, thus separating children from their fathers, and from the God of their fathers as well. All just as Marx had hoped.
This division of the generations has been going on for so long that modern Americans believe it is inevitable. We cannot imagine there was a time when young people sang the songs and danced the dances of their great-great grandparents! We have also forgotten that cultural progress is made by standing on the shoulders of our fathers, not by cutting their legs out from under them. Thus generation after generation is marked by increasing immaturity which it touts as moral progress, until the moral high ground is given to those who refuse to tell the difference between a boy and girl, all to the glory of cultural Marxism.
Contrary to the thinking of Marx and his modern advocates, despising the culture of our fathers has not resulted in true progress. Each generation's rejection of their father’s culture has not resulted in greater wisdom or justice. The hearts of the children have been turned from their fathers and now a curse rests on the land (Mal. 4:6).
Let us again turn our hearts to our fathers, particularly those fathers who consciously sought to build a consistently Christian culture. Let us examine and imitate their ways of life, building upon the ways that are consistent with God's word, while rejecting all that departs from the word of truth. Let us turn to the Triune God of our forefathers and rebuild the ruins of our civilization on the rock of His word, so we might stand in the coming storms (Mt.7:24-25). And if you are troubled by the fact that I never mentioned our mothers, Marx would be proud.