Putting God back into schools.

[Ninurta]

Matthew 13:9-16

9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Just saying.

This.

We now live in a world where everyone looks, but no one sees, and everyone hears, but no one listens.

so we have a generation heavy on monsters, kids that were thrown out with the trash because the people around them could not be bothered to take a few minutes out of their lives to raise them, teach them, parent them.

That produces a lot of person seeds that grow into monsters rather than persons, and we are gathering the fruit of that tree this minute.

Everyone looks at them being crazy, but no one sees it to understand it needs to be corrected before it gets out of hand. Everyone hears their screams for help, but no one can be bothered to listen to them.

You reap what you sew, and we as a society have sewn a bumper crop of monsters rather than persons. When they finally snap and act out, people come out of the woodwork saying "yeah, saw that coming". No they didn't. They looked, but saw nothing they could be bothered to address. Damn their eyes, they looked without seeing.

The only people that bother to "teach" them have nothing of value to teach them, nothing to tell them that will actually anchor them in reality or society.

You can't grow grapes by planting poison ivy vines.

Just wait until the next generation of that poison fruit comes of age. You ain't seen nothin' yet. It compounds over generations, as each new one has less and less to anchor it, and so fewer anchors to pass on to the next to equip their moral compasses with.

Removing guns from their grasp will only make them more inventive as they cast about looking for new means to destroy. Watering their roots as they grow is the problem, not pruning their branches after they have grown.

They have been cast adrift, unanchored, and will grasp at anything available to avoid drowning... and it's usually a rock that carries them to the bottom that they fasten on to. Say what you will about religion, but it at least gives folks something to anchor to, something that gives them a hope for not drowning.

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it". This is what society is training them to do these days, and then society acts all shocked when they do what they have been trained to do. It boggles the mind.

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