Genesis 2:24 --- jewish religious myth to ignore. On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 1:38:38 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://freedomsback.com/content-partners/robert-knight-what-political-correctness-has-wrought/ > > > > Robert Knight > Posted with permission from The Washington Times > > If you're wondering how America and Western Europe went from > marriage-centered societies to post-Christian sexual anarchy abetted by > massive government growth enforced by brutal political correctness in just > a few decades, let's just say it was no accident. > > Here's a brief history: > > The progressive left has been in a death struggle with religion, the > family, capitalism and morality itself since becoming a political and > philosophical force during the French Revolution. > > With the advent of Marxism in the mid-19th century, the battle > intensified, with the left eagerly expecting the collapse of capitalism. > > When the West failed to succumb to an economic and political upheaval of > the type that seized Russia in 1917, the strategy changed. To liberate > people from free market capitalism, it became necessary to liberate people > first from bourgeois morality. > > Man's natural inclination is to provide for himself and his own extended > family, then for his neighbors and community. Socialism must remove > existing loyalties and institutions in order to replace them with > government power. That's why progressives have been a major force behind > abortion, easy divorce, single-parent welfare incentives, pornography, > collective child-rearing and sexual excess of all kinds. All of these > manifestations of the progressive disease weaken the natural family. As > families crumble, the state steps in to take their place. > > Italian communist Antonio Gramsci saw the value of this in the 1920s, > calling for his fellow revolutionaries to "capture the culture," that is, > infiltrate the institutions that transmit cultural values. So they did, > especially in the universities. > > Revolutionaries such as John Dewey, Margaret Mead, Margaret Sanger, > Herbert Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich, all of whom waxed poetically about the > Soviet Union, inspired progressive educational and social policies that > weakened support for organized religion, marital fidelity and the family > while empowering the state. > > With the help of like-minded people in Hollywood, they hammered away at > social conventions of all kinds. The weapons of choice were radical > individualism and moral relativism, which they peddled on college campuses > to credulous liberal faculty who passed it on to their students. > > By the time the 1960s rolled around, with the advent of the pill, Playboy > magazine and mass communications, Western civilization was ripe for > takeover by a heretofore alien, ideology of limitless sex. Of course, > people weren't told about the downside of "free love" - the destruction of > families, social chaos, the loss of freedom to disagree, and a tightening > statist grip on economic and intellectual liberty. > > In his masterful new book, "Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How > the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage," author Paul Kengor traces a > direct line from the founders of communism to today's liberal social > "reformers." > > The elements change with the times, but not the ultimate objective, which > is to "progress" indefinitely toward an evolved, socialist Eden where all > is shared and all are equal. Mr. Kengor notes that the progressive canon > changes rapidly, and in ways that even progressives cannot always predict. > > "But we do know this much: what is seemingly inconceivable to all of us > right now, including to progressives themselves, may become the dogmatic > position of progressives in a generation," he writes. > > For example, "just five years ago, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton" > supported "retaining the definition of marriage as between one man and one > woman by 2012, that was completely gone. Now, anyone who opposed redefining > marriage - and who stands now where virtually all Democrats stood a mere > two decades back - is derided as a bigoted extremist." > > A case in point: The ninth World Congress of Families, which will be held > this coming week in Salt Lake City, has drawn fire from the Southern > Poverty Law Center, the Human Rights Campaign and other leftist > organizations, which falsely and strategically portray the pro-family > gathering as a "hate" event and the speakers as bigots. I have done some > writing for the WCF, and will be on a panel about "How the Culture > Undermines Life and the Family." > > In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx, who had an affair with his > children's nurse and mistreated his own family badly in other ways, railed > against religion and the middle-class family: "The bourgeois family will > vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will > vanish with the vanishing of capital." > > His co-author, Frederic Engels, was a prolific philanderer who preached > free love in an 1884 essay as a benefit of political revolution, a few > decades before abortion became the holy sacrament of the political left: > > "With the transfer of the means of production into common ownership, the > single family ceases to be the economic unit of society. Private > housekeeping is transformed into a social industry. The care and education > of the children becomes a public affair; society looks after all children > alike, whether they are legitimate or not. This removes all the anxiety > about the 'consequences' ... Will not that suffice to bring about the > gradual growth of unconstrained sexual intercourse ...?" > > The progressives' contempt for the family contrasts with the timeless > definition of marriage given in Genesis 2:24 and reiterated by Jesus: "A > man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and > they shall become one flesh." > > *• **Robert Knight is a senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union > and a Washington Times contributor.* > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmODhqaWFoBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NDU4NzYzMDM-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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