The progressive theft of innocence.

One of the reasons that there are warnings against being deceived is that the enemy waits until we get children into education and then tries to make good little socialist kiddies of them. And no, I am not just talking about the Soviet experience, but the tendency for schools to push the progressive agenda. The left do not breed, and they rely on converting people to their point of view, so that the next generation will be leftist. The demographics are stacked against them. This is an example from Spengler concerning Jews, but the same thing occurs in other religious groups.

Sadly, American Jews stand out as a horrible example of demographic failure. In the United States, secular and loosely affiliated American Jews, that is, the vast majority, have the lowest fertility rate of any identifiable segment of the American population.

As I wrote in my book How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too):

”Nowhere is the fertility gap between religious and non-religious more extreme than among American Jews. As a group, American Jews show the lowest fertility of any ethnic group in the country. That is a matter of great anguish for Jewish community leaders. According to sociologist Steven Cohen, “We are now in the midst of a non-Orthodox Jewish population meltdown. … Among Jews in their 50s, for every 100 Orthodox adults, we have 192 Orthodox children. And for the non-Orthodox, for every 100 adults, we have merely 55 such children.”

Half of the non-Orthodox children, moreover, marry non-Jews, and very few children of mixed marriages will remain Jewish. As Reform Rabbi Lance J Sussman wrote in 2010, “With the exception of a number of Orthodox communities and a few other bright spots in or just off the mainstream of Jewish religious life, American Judaism is in precipitous decline … the Reform movement has probably contracted by a full third in the last ten years!”

In Israel, by contrast, the Jewish fertility rate stands at around 3 children per female, by far the highest in the industrial world. Aside from the ultra-Orthodox minority, which has seven or eight children, the non-Orthodox Jewish fertility rate is around 2.6 children per female.

Jewish Fertility by Religious Current
 Average Number of Children per Woman
 Ultra-Orthodox      6.72
 Modern Orthodox     3.39
 Conservative        1.74
 Reform              1.36
 Secular             1.29

Source: Anthony Gordon and Richard Horowitz, National Jewish Population Survey (2000)

Israel’s Jews identify with Jewish nationality more than American Jews, but they also observe the Jewish religion more than their American cousins.

We may raise children correctly. We may do our duty. We may pray, be faithful, and our wives not fall into the trap of leaving us, as they are told to be the secular elite. Even then, we can be involved in the raising of our children, subvert the education system, and train our children.

But the left hope that they can steal whatever habits of faith and godliness we have instilled into them and turn them to the side of progressivism. For the left have a religion, and it is green, progressive, and like all religions does not tolerate any competition.

Paul gives us some guidance in this passage. Firstly, he notes that the very reason that he was preaching in Galatia in the first place was because he was injured or ill. He took something that was not planned in his eyes and made the most of it. Secondly, he is pleading for the Galatians to remain true to the faith and not fall into the temptation placed before them by Pharisaic preachers: of relying on the law and the law alone, despite being damned by that very law.

Galatians 4:12-20

¹²Friends, I beg you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong. ¹³You know that it was because of a physical infirmity that I first announced the gospel to you; ¹⁴though my condition put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me, but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵What has become of the good will you felt? For I testify that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? ¹⁷They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you may make much of them. ¹⁸It is good to be made much of for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you. ¹⁹My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, ²⁰I wish I were present with you now and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Now, the left want to steal our faith away and make us like them. There are many ways that this happens, many vectors.

• They tell us that we should have a high self esteem. That we should be proud. Scripture says that pride is a sin: the Catholics quite correctly named it as a deadly sin.
• They tell us we should worship nature — either to prevent (non-existent) global warming or some other form of eco-apoclyapse or that we should embrace paganism because patriarchy is evil.
• They tell us we should be sex-positive. We should not judge, we should explore our sexuality. They want to teach sex education to younger and younger children, with a level of explicitness that approaches pornography, One would predict that this would lead to premature sexualization and increased rates of early sexual activity with the associated rates of teenage pregnancy and Sexually transmitted infections. In the 1970s, the data indicated that this was the case, but abstinence-only sex education (as delivered in the USA) increases the rate if teen pregnancy . This does not surprise me. One of my mentors found a similar result when teaching why doctors should never have sex with any patients they had treated: any education may increase the rate of the behaviour.

It is also worthwhile noting that taking your SATs is associated with abortions: young women have got the message that having babies is incompatible with higher education, to the detriment of their souls. I will leave the marked correlation — as big as the abstinence education one — between the percentage of Black teens in the population & teen pregnancy to the HBD folks.

Progressive and post modern education is not about drawing out the best from young people but leaving them stupid, fearful, and enslaved. The tactics of progressives is to control the school dialogue and disempower parents, particularly fathers. Because they do not want to deal with logic, evidence and other data: data is sexist. They want men tamed and effete.

But they will not date such men, nor do such men provide or maintain those things needed to keep a city running. The progressives will die out unless they double down and force their lies to the next generation. We need to be like Paul. We have to tell the truth, particularly when it is offensive and hurtful. It is better to have a little pain early in live and correct bad habits than to be damned at the end this existence, looking at a life spent on ephemera.