Teach it to your children…
Family and marriage are institutions designed by God–they are not man-made. Perhaps then, we shouldn’t be surprised that the family is becoming an enemy. Who would have ever believed there would come a time when society would be hostile to what has always been considered the basic unit of its existence? It is why I think feminism has had the most damaging impact on our culture…because at the core, it seeks to separate family…with destruction as a result.
We have slid down a slippery slope and arrived at the belief that the basic unit of society is the INDIVIDUAL. (Think about it for a minute…look at all the ways families are divided and the expectations that is should be so…even within the church.) And when that is believed, the individual is very quickly lost in the state.
“Dr. Carle C. Zimmerman, Harvard University spent his life studying the history of the family. He has pointed out the family’s significance: that whenever the atomistic (separate, unrelated members) family develops, in which the authority of the father is no longer paramount, then there is a very quick disintegration of society, the total state takes over, and there is a radical collapse of civilization…..
With the development of the atomistic family–which is really no family at all–the home is simply a place to room and board while the state takes over the role as father–to take care of the family in its every need, providing for the children and the parents; the family no longer cares for itself; civilization collapses. ” -R.J. Rushdoony
(By the way, this paradigm does not exclude the rare single men and women not called to marriage; all still belong to a family and have a major importance in that role.)
Listen to Zimmerman’s conclusions:
He believed…
“..that a fundamental purpose of civilization is the empowerment and enabling of the family — and is absolutely key to the health of any civilization. … Nobody undertakes to have a large family because it’s fun, or, in advanced societies, because it’s economically beneficial. They do it because they believe that’s what people do. In other words, they believe that children are a blessing from God, and that we humans are participating in the divine will by begetting children and raising them up to carry on our civilization….
Mankind has consumed not only the crop, but the seed for the next planting as well. Whatever may be our Pollyanna inclination, this fact cannot be avoided. Under any assumptions, the implications will be far-reaching for the future not only of the family but of our civilization as well. The question is no longer a moral one; it is social.”
Building the family is the only option for surviving–slice it any way you like, our ideals and personal opinions won’t erase factual reality.
