What’s worse, physical evil from an open enemy, or clandestine evil from a supposed friend?
One need look no further than to Islam and the so-called “Left” — in this case, in the guise of the K-through-college education system — to appreciate the distinction.
First, consider the Islamic institution of slave-soldiery. For many centuries in those southeastern European regions that were subjugated by Islam, especially in the Balkans, the Turks compelled Christian families to make an annual blood tribute of their own sons.
The Muslims would select the strongest, healthiest, and most talented young European boys, and then march them off to the Ottoman heartland. There, the youths would be forcibly converted to Islam, indoctrinated in the teachings of jihad, and trained to be — and rewarded for being — warriors par excellence. The Turks would then set loose these janissaries — meaning, “new soldiers” — on their former Christian kin, thereby perpetuating the cycle of conquest, enslavement, and conversion, always to Islam’s demographic gain and Christendom’s demographic loss.
As the author of Balkan Wars explains:
Despite their Christian upbringing, they [janissaries] became fanatical Muslims and earnestly maintained their faith as warriors of Islam. This cruel practice of what today can be defined as the “brain cleansing” of the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire is perhaps the most inhuman Turkish legacy.
As bad as all this sounds, in his recent review of Defenders of the West, William Kilpatrick made some interesting connections between past and present:
Thus indoctrinated, the youngsters [Christians-turned-jihadists, or janissaries] often developed a slavish devotion to Islam and their Islamic masters, and a deep hostility toward Christians. Although the institution of the janissaries was novel at the time, we have seen several similar examples in the modern era. Both the Hitler Youth and the Soviet-era Young Pioneers aimed to inculcate youngsters with beliefs and values that were often in opposition to those of their parents. Moreover, children who betrayed their parents to the authorities were held up as models for other youth to emulate.
The most recent example of an organized attempt to separate children from their families and from the faith of their families can be found no further away than your neighborhood school. All across the country, children are being indoctrinated to believe that gay is okay, that boys have the right to use the girls’ locker room, and that children can choose their own gender.
Some teachers and counselors even encourage children to believe that they have been assigned the wrong gender and offer to assist them in transitioning to their “true” identity. In the meantime, they advise the children not to inform their parents.
And why should parents be informed? Like the Ottoman rulers of old, many education “professionals” have convinced themselves that the children belong to the state, not to their parents. Never mind what parents believe, teachers know best. And, indeed, it is now common knowledge that a K-through-college education often has the effect of turning children away from the values of their parents.
Not only is all of this true; it highlights the two primary forms of evil, as well described in Dante’s masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. The first part, Inferno, describes the nine circles, or levels, of hell. Broadly speaking, its denizens can be categorized as having committed one of two sins — sins of force or fraud. As author Ron Tobias summarizes:
In Dante’s Inferno there are only two basic sins in all the levels of hell. One is called forza, crimes of violence and force. The other basic sin is called forda, Italian for fraud. Force and fraud. The damned who have been sent to Hell for crimes of violence weren’t at the lowest circles of Hell; those were reserved for people who committed fraud… In Dante’s mind, anyway, crimes of the mind were far worse than crimes of violence [italics added].
Another author describes the divisions as follows:
Each successive circle [of hell] represents progressively more heinous sins…. The eighth circle of hell is reserved for those guilty of … various types of fraud: seducers, flatterers, simonists, sorcerers, unscrupulous politicians, hypocrites, thieves, deceivers, schismatics and falsifiers.
Although the Inferno is a product of 14th-century Italy, surely some of these categories — unscrupulous politicians, hypocrites, deceivers, seducers, and falsifiers — ring a bell.
In short, when it comes to indoctrinating children into hating their parents and heritage, the American school system is not unlike the Muslim institution of slave-soldiery. However, whereas the Muslims had forcibly (but at least openly) enslaved and indoctrinated Christian children into hating their parents and heritage, the kindergarten-through-college system is insidious — a fraud being committed by those who present themselves and are trusted as “friends.”
Thx Raymond, as I’ve been mentioning in comments online, we have at this time, great enemies without and within.
Very dangerous times for our country and western societies across the globe.
Thankfully, there is a strong rational pushback in the west to more traditional values. I hope they win in the struggle, and that I’m around to see it for my kids sake and all that are coming after us who are now in the older generation.
Thx again Raymond Tally Ho
In Canada I am still waiting to see the “strong rational push-back” of which you speak. When we do see any sign of this it mostly comes from immigrants, not those born in Canada whose complacency and apathy is amazing. Jordan Peterson is an admirable exception. That Canada has elected and re-elected a disgraceful leader like Justin Trudeau with his dictatorial instincts and the mess he regards as ‘values’, speaks volumes about general Canadian values. I’ve had to fight hard to ensure that the grandchildren in my custody are not subjected to the indoctrination occurring in their schools.
Can’t argue Rob. There’s a major battle going on in the States you likely know, Italian conservatives now have a super majority, Dutch farmers have won some battle about fertilizer,
Poland and Hungary are protecting their borders and people.
Scandinavian countries admitting mass migration was a mistake.
Agree CA, Australia, Brits, Scotland and Ireland all embracing deadly policies.
Dangerous times.
Thanks for an interesting article: it is important to know how our present day systems equate to the past, as Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us that “there is nothing new under the sun.”
We can recognise today’s education system when we read The Communist Manifesto which declares that children belong to the State and not to parents.
The common thread between then and now is that people have rejected God and His moral law. As a result we are living with the ever increasing Marxist ideology adopted by all levels of government and society and consequential chaos and evil it brings.