“Nature’s what’s important”
This past Wednesday was Earth Day, a quasi-holiday for modern-day pagans who worship at the altar of environmentalism. The next day (Thursday), my grandmother was babysitting her youngest grandson (my cousin), who happens to be a kindergartner in the same small Midwestern school district where I received my K-12 training.
My grandmother, a fan of Christian television broadcasts, was tuned in while my cousin was in the room. Overhearing the broadcast, my cousin – who’s five – said to his grandmother, “Don’t worry about that, Grandma. That’s not important; nature’s what’s important.”
My grandma wasted no time in setting him straight.
I must point out that my aunt and uncle are not environmental crazies. They’re small-town raised, red-blooded Americans, the kind of people who make this country great. I’ll guarantee my cousin didn’t hear the “nature’s what’s important” garbage at home.
Call me paranoid, but I’d guess he picked it up through television, or maybe at school. The scary part is that kids all over the country are being spoon-fed this same garbage. Unfortunately, many of them don’t have a Christian grandmother to counteract the lies they’re being told.
I’m in my early 30s, but it definitely is a different world than the one in which I was raised. When I was attending K-12, most of our teachers more or less shared the same values as my Christian parents. We seldom heard anything in the classroom that contradicted what we were taught at home.
When I was nearing the end of high school, juniors and seniors were called into the school auditorium to discuss the upcoming prom. Some male student jokingly asked if it was okay to bring a date of the same sex; the parent in charge told him, “We don’t do that here.”
In a big city school district, that woman probably would have been sued and barred from school property for saying such a thing. But for me (and undoubtedly for many of my classmates), it was comforting to know we lived in a place where people still held old-fashioned values.
I hope that hasn’t changed. I want my school-age family members to learn there is a Higher Power than nature.
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