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A government agency takes a small boy away from his parents because the parents employed physical means in disciplining him i.e. they disciplined him in accordance with the Biblical injunction of discipline by the rod. You don't believe it? It is happening. Now just imagine the human consequences of this government act. Just imagine the emotional trauma to both child and parent. Is it difficult to imagine that that single act by that government agency completely destroys the life of that child --- that that act completely smashes that child, ruins him? Is it difficult to imagine that when that child is taken away from the parents that he loved and forcibly put in the care of someone else he turns against life, does badly in school, becomes a juvenile delinquent, commits antisocial acts, and ends up living a life spent mostly in prison? If it had happened to me I think that is what would have been the outcome. It would have caused me to carry an eternal hatred against society. Can we not call an act like this by a government agency criminal? How serious a crime is it? How does it rate as crimes go? Is it as terrible a crime as murder? Can we suggest that that act may well have the consequence of damning the eternal soul of that child to an everlasting hell? How great a crime is that? How great a wrong was done to him? Can we call this an outrageous crime of the grossest degree? And yet these government officials that are guilty of such an outrageous crime do it with impunity and receive no punishment. The government does it and it is not called crime. Social engineering. Liberalism, Progressivism, a modern social movement characterized by faith in man and the mind of man as opposed to faith in God and his teachings and commandments. A system of thought with origins in the philosophies of atheism and agnosticism that has given us Socialism and Communism and so permeated the thought of the modern world. That system of ideas, outlooks, assumptions and values that dominates and powers the governmental institutions of 1990's America is the same system that created and powered Russian Communism. How can these things happen in America? The institutions of any society are peopled by people drawn from the society and reflect the ideas, attitudes, assumptions and values of the society. They mirror the society. When the society changes, its institutions change. If the society degenerates and becomes corrupt they degenerate and become corrupt. Sept 1999
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