Faith, Family & Freedom: Part 9‏ of 21

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In 2006, Chief of staff to now-President Obama, Rahm Emanuel wrote The Plan: Big Ideas for America.  His book calls for three months of compulsory, mandatory civil service for ages 18 to 25.  Wasting no time implementing his Machiavellian agenda, Obama signed into law "The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism in Education Act" (GIVE Act) in April 2009.

The program is voluntary so far, but I believe Obama's intentions have been clear since long before his election.  The Obama Administration would like to make the volunteerism bill mandatory, as stated on the Obama-Biden campaign website in 2008:

Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of mandatory community service in middle school and high school, and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

Thankfully, the outrage was so great, the campaign removed the word "mandatory" from the website description.  But, "mandatory" is their goal, and future legislation is being created to accomplish that end.  Meanwhile, even if service is not mandatory, many Americans are liable to give their children over to this government re-education program, lured by the promise of government money for education.

In this segment we will learn about the man most notable for laying the groundwork for what is known today as "community youth service" and how our government - from both sides of the isle - has been seeking to make this a mandatory requirement for our children.

"Faith, Family & Freedom: Our American Values Under Fire"

William James

(1842-1910)

Remember I promised you in the introduction of this series that I was going to rip away the prettily packaged lies and reveal the hidden truth so you can protect yourself, your children, and your grandchildren from the anti-God agenda? Well, pay close attention, because our opposition is marketing “community youth service” in such a way that even many Christian parents will think it's a good thing and end up giving their children over to the state to be indoctrinated with a worldview contrary to a Biblical one and opposed to the values of their homes.

As we’ve discussed, word manipulation is standard fare among those who foist social transformation on people who would otherwise utterly reject their advances. This manipulation of words reached perhaps its greatest heights in the work of a late-nineteenth century Harvard University professor of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and anatomy. As his professorial titles suggest, William James wrote on a wide variety of topics that still influence American culture. One essay, however, is of such overwhelming influence that it deserves to be the central focus of the story of the William James legacy.

“The Moral Equivalent of War” lays the groundwork for the insidious concept of organized national service. Much lauded in its Great Depression-era incarnation as FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps, “national service” is a principle for undermining competing social institutions – including the family and Church. Before digging into the specifics of James’s writings, though, you’ll want to know where his thinking comes from. And much of it will sound familiar.

Do you remember Alice Bailey and the Tibetan? James wrote of sitting with a medium named Leonora Piper as she would go into a trance. After being with Piper on several occasions, James wrote that he believed “she has supernatural powers.” Predictably, spiritualism became one of James’s topics of writings. In What Pragmatism Means, James reveals his commitment to a belief system based on the idea that truth is relative and situational. To him, truth is what proves useful to the individual. And in The Meaning of Truth James writes, “…the pragmatist always means ‘true for him who experiences the workings’.”

Against this background, Williams James conceived “The Moral Equivalent to War.” In this work, James reveals that this “war” is against the ideals and values that make up our worldview and all that our ideals reinforce – families, parental authority, private property ownership, and all God-given liberties – so they might be surrendered to the state. This is what the educational trends of the past two generations have been all about, whether the specifics were called “values clarifications,” “community service,” “outcome-based education” or a thousand other pretty names. Once you look behind these glittering labels to the specific things that are said and done, the agenda becomes clear: Undermining the values and beliefs that parents have taught their children and replacing them with politically correct notions from the counter-culture.

“Community service” is not about the community or about service. It is about using children for ideological agendas and using those agendas to insinuate the welfare-state view of the world on impressionable young minds. This is not about educating children. It is about using children as cannon fodder in ideological battles and as guinea pigs for experiments. Intruding into family privacy is the first step toward intruding into the family itself. Children are being manipulated by the state to believe that the solution to poverty is redistribution of wealth and bigger government. The attempt by humanists to create humanists out of our children and put them to work in government and humanist non-profit organizations as their “agents of change” is appalling.

Do not think for one minute that when students are taken into the inner city through a government community service program that they are going to be told that the reason many are homeless and suffer from extreme poverty is that ideas have consequences, that your worldview matters, and that sin has consequences. They will not be told that many of those living in poverty are unemployed and homeless because of illegal drug use and alcoholism. They will not be informed that the reason for generational poverty is rejection of God’s standards and principles for sexuality. While there are a few true victims of poverty – children who suffer from their parents’ bad choices in which all too many choose to repeat as adults.

Throughout history, communists and Marxists leaders have declared that they need two things for a successful revolution. The first is some kind of crisis, and the second is the youth of the middle class. The William James, Dewey, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama youth service agenda falls right in line with the goal of former Assistant U.N Secretary General Robert Muller who, in his World Core Curriculum, called for:

Assisting the child in becoming an integrated individual who can deal with personal experience while seeing himself as a part of “the greater whole.” In other words, promote growth of the group idea, so that group good, group understanding, group interrelations and group goodwill replace all limited self-centered objectives, leading to group consciousness.

To achieve his world-changing agenda, William James understood the need to shape the worldview of young, impressionable minds toward humanism, the end of capitalism, the ouster of parental authority, and the demise of a Constitutional Republic. His moral equivalent of war continues to destroy America from within. If in the end we are as James wanted, “owned, as soldiers are by the army,” then we will have no one to blame but ourselves due to our ignorance and intellectual laziness. Parents and grandparents, if your children or grandchildren are taken captive by the brainchild of William James, you cannot say I didn’t warn you. As Hosea 4:6 warns, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”

Sources:

Frederic W. H. Myers and William James, A Record of Observations of Certain Phenomena of Trance (1889-1890)

David Noebel, The Battle for Truth Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2001)

Brannon Howse, Grave Influence (Worldview Publishing, 2009)

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