By Dr. Ted Baehr
The entertainment and news media, as well as our educational system, have become infatuated with a culture that’s unbiblical and even overtly anti-Christian. This has led to some outlandish movies that have been box office failures and strange news reports that can’t even define a woman.
For example, recent movies with a strong woke perspective include movies like MICKEY 17, GOOD FORTUNE, POOR THINGS, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, HONEY DON’T, KEEPER, CONCLAVE, MONKEY MAN, EMILIA PEREZ, and DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS.
Many people put up with this nonsense because they think it’s a passing fad. Sadly, though, it represents the Marxist destruction of Western Civilization started by Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist philosopher and politician, and codified by Herbert Marcuse and other radicals.
A recent poll by the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports found that 53% of Americans aged 18-39 would like to see a “democratic socialist” candidate win the 2028 presidential election. Also, 76% said “major industries like health care, energy and big tech should be nationalized to give more control and equity to the people.”
Karl Marx and other groups, like the Jacobeans in France, who instituted the horrors of the French Revolution, believed you couldn’t establish a socialist society without abolishing five institutions. Even President Obama and President Biden echoed this language. You also can find sentiments against these five institutions in the social and political policies supported by many leaders, who have become enamored with woke culture, “social justice,” democratic socialism, and “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).”
Let’s look briefly at those institutions from a biblical viewpoint.
In “The Communist Manifesto,” Marx calls first to abolish private property. The commandments in the Bible, however, defend private property and condemn those who will steal and kill for it, including King Ahab of Ancient Israel, who killed Naboth because he wanted Naboth’s vineyard. Thou shalt not steal protects the not-so-powerful individual not only from thieves but also from mobs, from public and private tyranny, and from greedy government officials who have the power to steal with impunity, as Lenin, Stalin and Mao did.
Marx next calls for the abolition of individuality and freedom. The horrors of the mutilation of young children and the condemning of people to fit a mass understanding of who they are limits their freedom to be who they are and whom God designed them to be. It also forces them into a false reality, which often leads to suicide, the ultimate stealing of their freedom.
Next is the abolition of family, but God not only designed the family, He also sent His only begotten son, Jesus, and He honors the family through His Word Written, the Bible. Jesus protects the family by calling for the respect of marital relations and condemning adultery and other aspects of immorality. The breakdown of the family has caused great harm to all ethnic groups in the United States, mostly because of absent fathers, since fathers are essential to the rearing of healthy children. Thus, children raised in homes with fathers are much more likely to graduate high school, avoid poverty and avoid prison, and much less likely to do drugs, become mentally ill and commit suicide.
The next thing is to abolish countries and nationalities. God says He designs the nations and, by the way, the tribes. People get upset when a native community gets destroyed, such as the tribe in Brazil that was poisoned, with the world’s loneliest man who was the last member of the tribe dying recently mentioned through the news media, and the attack on Ukraine by Russia.
Finally, Marx calls the for abolishment of “eternal truths, all religion and all morality.” This silliness with extremely destructive consequences has even invaded some mainline denominations and churches, with the majority of pastors adopting a relativistic position toward truth and morality, and some toward religion. The more you study religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, the more you realize how different they are and how some are extremely destructive. Christianity, however, is the only religion where, to be a real Christian, you must show the Fruit of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Galatians 5:22-23)
Marx early on in his life dedicated himself to Satan. Many of his most significant followers have done the same, including Howard Zinn, who has corrupted a whole generation of scholars and millions of high school and college students.
Sadly, the entertainment and news media’s dubious, disruptive and divisive approach to “diversity” is not a passing fad but an attack on humanity, an attack which needs to be recognized, confronted and rejected with wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Manifesto of the Communist Party
By Karl Marx
Calls for:
“Abolition of private property
Abolition of individuality and freedom!
Abolition of the family
Abolish countries and nationality
Abolishes eternal truths, all religion and all morality”
How:
“1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public
purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank
with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the
State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the
bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally
in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for
agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of
all the distinction between town and country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.”
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