You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good-bye.
Teach your children well,
Their father’s hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you’ll know by.
Don’t you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.
Lyrics by Graham Nash
Teach your Children
What do Critical Theory, Marxism, Socialism, cultural liberalism, women’s equality,
homosexuality, transgenderism, and the sexual revolution all have in common?
They are the underlying lynchpins to our current day’s ills…
And they all seem to have begotten the other in some perverse orgy of thought, action and protest.
I wrote a post last week referencing a recent letter penned by Pope Emeritus Benedict
in which he states that the ills of the Chruch today can actually be traced right back
to the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s.
“Pope Benedict XVI has broken his silence in a rare essay on the sex abuse crisis
in the Catholic Church, claiming that it was caused in part by the sexual revolution of the 1960s
and the liberalization of the church’s moral teaching.
“Since I myself had served in a position of responsibility as shepherd of the Church
at the time of the public outbreak of the crisis, and during the run-up to it,
I had to ask myself — even though, as emeritus,
I am no longer directly responsible —
what I could contribute to a new beginning,”
Benedict wrote, in explaining why he is speaking out now.
But his comments on the sex abuse crisis seem certain to inflame tensions between
conservative Catholics, who largely blame homosexuality and lax sexual ethics for the scandal,
and liberals, who say there is no known connection between homosexuality and pedophilia.
In the essay, Benedict asserts that the changes in traditional moral standards
on sexuality both in society and within the Catholic Church laid the groundwork
for the sex abuse crisis.
“Part of the physiognomy of the Revolution of ’68,” he writes,
“was that pedophilia was then also diagnosed as allowed and appropriate.”
Bishop Gavin Ashenden actually expanded on this notion albeit as a separate thought than that
of the former Pope’s, all of which I shared in that same previous post.
https://cookiecrumbstoliveby.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/silent-no-more-the-absence-of-god/
Contrary to what many critics now argue, I don’t see the former Pope’s letter as some
sort of feeble excuse for the scope of predation and the decades of lies and cover-ups,
but rather I see that Benedict is identifying a marker…
A key and crucial marker, marking much of our current ills and woes.
But before we proceed, you might need to read over another previous post.
It’s a post which might refresh your memory about Critical Theory,
The Frankfurt School and Marxism—all of which have been identified and brought to our
attention by Melvin Tinker in his book
That Hideous Strength:
How The West Was Lost
The Cancer of Cultural Marxism in The Chruch,
The World And The Gospel of Change
Here is a link to one of the previous teaching posts regarding Mr. Tinker’s book:
https://cookiecrumbstoliveby.wordpress.com/2019/01/30/new-left-not-so-new-raison-detre/
In a nutshell, however, “according to Tinker–
“In 1923 a week-long symposium was organized by Felix Weil in Frankfurt,
Germany in which they laid out a vision for a Marxist think-tank and
research centre.
The original name for the centre was the Institue for Marxism (Institut fur Marxismus),
but a more innocent sounding title was subsequently given,
The Institute for Social Research (Institut fur Sozialforschung).
Since that time the ISR has usually been known simply as the Frankfurt School.”
In the early 1940s, many of these German philosophers made a mad dash to the US once
the Nazis had shuttered their Institute—bringing with them not merely an academic philosophy
but rather a desire for a “new world order” of Marxism—
bringing it directly to the forefront of America’s academic schools of thought.
Their “school” of philosophy (a cultural Marxism) was readily accepted and absorbed into
America’s academic elite thinkers and schools.
New, refreshing and cutting edge, or so it seemed.
Fast forward to today…
As we now stand bewildered and nearly helpless while looking at the nation we thought we once knew,
I believe a key and crucial breadcrumb will be found if we look back to those heady days of 60s.
Those days of protests, revolutionary movements and a summer of love.
While we painfully scan the horizon, looking for reasons as to why we are currently in
a terrible mess, I believe we need to not only re-explore but we need to understand…
we need to understand that what appeared to be a movement by and for women vying for
equality in the mid-1960s was far more serious and far more sinister than equal
pay for equal work.
So much so that most of the women protesting had
no idea how their “movement” was to morph into a damning Sexual revolution.
Vietnam, Civil Rights, Women rights, peace, and love…
what a churning boiling toxic kettle of foreboding ills.
A movement shattering certain social norms set the stage for our
current culture’s spiraling demise.
And sex was going to be a key factor, if not the pivotal factor.
According to Max Horkheimer (one of the German philosophers) and his fellow scholars,
bourgeois society is inherently sexually repressed,
which is a major factor in neurosis and other forms of mental illness.
‘They believed,’ as Breshears makes clear, ‘that a revolutionary,
post-capitalist and post-Christian society could liberate humanity
from this repression, so sexual liberation from the restrictions of a patriarchal society
was a major theme in their ideology.’
Both Eric Fromm and Wilhelm Reich (more of the German philosophers) re-worked
Freudianism into the neo-Marxist ideology.
Fromm argued that sexual orientation is merely a social construct,
that there are no innate differences between men and
women, and furthermore that sexuality and gender roles are socially determined.
It was Reich who coined the term
‘the sexual revolution’ (the title of his 1936 book) and contended that the
innate sexual impulse should be liberated
from artificial and man-made moral restrictions.
But perhaps more than any other member of the Frankfurt School it was
Herbert Marcuse who was to have the most far-reaching influence in this aspect of
the neo-Marxist ideology.
In Eros and Civilization he
sought to bring together neo-Marxism with a version of neo-Freudianism in order
to turn the power of the throwing off of all traditional values and sexual restraints
in favour of ‘polymorphous perversity.’ The very idea of marital love and
fidelity was considered by Marcuse to be counter-revolutionary.
Although cultural change was the ultimate goal, Marcuse understood the tactical appeal
if the pleasure principle. For we are often reminded, ‘sex sells,’
and it sells politics too, what better way
to recruit revolutionaries than to convince them that sexual promiscuity
is a sure way to bring
about the revolution?
Dinesh D’Souza notes in ‘What’s so great about Christianity?’
the centrality of this tactic by quoting neo-Marxist,
‘Against the power of religion, we employ an equal if not greater power—
the power of hormones.’/em>
These are names that are mostly foreign to those of us today who are looking for answers,
yet they are names of men who were to play pivotal roles in ushering in the mess
you and I are currently living in today…
Yet as there is much more to write, share and say…I’m off to Atlanta.
So this is part I….Part II and possibly Part III will be forthcoming…
But the Mayor is calling.
It seems her chief aides are going on a little date night prior to the arrival of their new addition
and of course, the Mayor needed a babysitter.
Plus I’ll be on baby watch this weekend standing in while my son is out of town for a wedding.
His overtly pregnant wife is in no condition to trek a couple of hours away from home
this late in the ballgame…
Stay tuned…
Oh, by the way… Percy is still at the Vets…
the surgery seems to have been successful as long as he stays
in a cage, unable to jump…sigh
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil,
for the devil has been sinning from the beginning.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8
cookiecrumbstoliveby 
Yes, sexual sin is at the root of many problems. Look at how they are destroying childhood by teaching little children ‘sex ed’ . But go way back to the Israelites and the first people, and sex was a problem then. They just couldn’t resist those foreign women even though God repeatedly warned them.
It looks is indeed our age old nemesis
Reblogged this on Talmidimblogging.
It is an old malady with new names. Sexual sin came to be when God’s perfect unity and plans for man and woman were corrupted by disobedience and thinking we knew better than God. Its been a downhill slide ever since. Take care of that mayor and mama to be.
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You have itemized so much truth here in this one article. Excellent work! However, I would like to point out that two years before ’68 in 1966 “Newsweek” magazine had a cover article announcing that “God Was Dead.” Thus introducing the idea that removing God from the thoughts of a society and culture, the bridle of structure is removed and everything becomes permissible. Thereby setting the course open to all which you mention which emanates from the removal of God from influencing the coming generations. That is where I begin my investigation. Proclamation of NO GOD! And then everything you listed here flows free.
Excellent article of great information you have written here! Thank you! And may the Lord bless you as you continue this line of unveiled truth!
And thank you for the addition of truth 🙂
The 60s are indeed a key factor in all that has happened since. Civil rights, women’s lib, Vietnam war, all became protests. The youth could blow up university buildings and get away with it. But it seems at the core was a rebellion against God and the family unit. The “Greatest Generation” had no answer for these protests. They watered down religion to the point of “Why bother?” They caved to the rebellion of their children, thus discipline was missing. It was not missing in my home, but I never rebelled overtly. Eagle Scout to Army officer does not lend itself to rebellion. But then, our generation of rebels passed even less discipline and even more questioning to the next generation.
Good stuff Mark— I’ll touch on those things in the coming days once I get home — a friend once told me that what one generation tolerates, the next accepts …. we see just how true that is
Amen
So many good points here, Julie. Our country is spiraling. There is a lot of censorship occurring toward Christians in the name of “tolerance” and an increase in dogmatic liberalism in schools in social media. Not only that, but Hollywood pushes this sexual agenda in its movies and TV shows. I am hard-pressed to find a show that does not condone homosexuality, fornication, and (in many cases) adultery. They condone those things, but condemn Christians. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.
Amen and so well stated my friend!
Heavy stuff, important stuff, true stuff. Thanks for writing it in a way I can understand.
It is indeed both important and heavy and something we need to re-examine in order to understand this mess we’re in
Thanks. Waiting with you for the sheriff.
I’d actually gone home yesterday to take care of things at home but they called a midnight telling to get to the hospital— an hours drive— so I raced over— got autumn who was in the waiting room with a friend of theirs- then Gregory came up right after me — we kept autumn at home and Gregory has gone back over to the hospital while autumn and I wait for the call to meet the little brother
Now in action!
I wrote a post about the original altarpiece by Grünewald a few years back— I’ll see if I can find it— it’s the most real depiction of the crucifixion I’ve ever seen and that’s why I appreciated so— it was it is real and truly intense 😉
Thank you.