In 2014, the Royal Dutch Guide Dog Foundation received the Gouden Loeki Commercial Award. The award was probably well deserved.
The commercial that received the award begins with a close up shot of the eye of man who is stricken with panic. As the shot widens we notice that his breathing is intense and there is blood on the side of his head. Then we see there are soldiers around him and hear the sound of gun fire. It becomes clear that he too is a soldier.
As he looks to the side, he sees a doll and, just beyond it, a young girl lying face down in the rubble. The solider can barely move as he reaches out to the girl while one of his fellow soldiers comes to his aid. Terror and anguish fill his face.
Suddenly the scene shifts to this same soldier in a bed being woken by a dog. The dog then hits a switch with his nose and turns on the lights in his darkened room. A narrator says: “We train dogs to guide people with trauma out of a nightmare, because we not only help people who cannot see, but also those who have seen too much.”
You can view the commercial here – The Royal Dutch Guide Dog Foundation (KNGF) commercial for veteran dogs – YouTube
Violence Cannot Be Unseen
Violence is brutal and often savage. Most often it is a sinful act, but even when violence is used for self-defense it is still ugly.
Quite often, violent sin scars the soul, even if one is only a witness and not the perpetrator of violence. Such scarring can unintentionally lead to other sins. Seeing violence inflicted on others can foster rage and even hatred.
Many people relive violent acts in their dreams and sometimes even in the faces of other people who pass them by on the street. Fortunately, most people shy from violent sin because it is so horrific and uncomfortable. There is no pleasure in it.
A Shattered Cup
Porcelain is fragile. A shattered porcelain cup can be pieced back together and repaired with glue. Be that as it may, cracks and other defects persist.
The same is true for our souls. One may go to confession, repent sins, and try to repair one’s soul. One can work to piece his or her life back together, however, the scars from sin remain.
Sexual Sin Cannot Be Unseen
Not all sins leave the same type of scars. Unlike violence, sexual sin often brings worldly pleasure, at least in the short term.
Grown men often struggle with pornography their entire lives. Once they have seen an image, they cannot un-see it. Moreover, seeing one image often creates a hunger to see more and more and more, leading to a spiral of addiction.
Men I know who struggle with this temptation regret seeing past sinful images because of the craving it has created within them. They also work to resist temptation by avoiding sexual images and any form of pornography.
Sexualizing the Young
Sexual education in schools has been a point of contention for decades. However, sexual education in government run schools has shifted of late. It now focuses on unnatural and disordered pleasures and is no longer just for high school students. It now includes a multitude of perversions presented to younger and younger children.
Less than 10 years ago it would have been absurd to think that sexual education would be brought into kindergarten. Moreover, the type of graphic sexual education presented attempts to normalize homosexuality and other forms of sin. It discards modern Christian morality and its benefits for the ancient pagan appetites of Sodom and Gamora.
Even though children are not mentally, emotionally, and spiritually ready to confront such topics, secular educators claim the subject must be introduced as a form inclusion and equity. But as Jerome German pointed out recently, the only equity being created is the equity of sin.
This generation will feel the effects of this radical indoctrination for their entire lives. A 5-year-old kindergartner cannot un-see such sins.
Challenge for Parents
Parents must recognize the threat. Parents must reject the naive thinking that their children will not embrace secular values after being bombarded with 6 to 8 hours of daily propaganda. There are other options to government schools.
To avoid the indoctrination of sin, Catholic schools as well as other Christian schools are one option. To offset the costs, some states offer vouchers which can be applied to non-government schools. Some churches offer both merit and need based scholarships as well.
However, just because a school calls itself Catholic or Christian does not mean it actually promotes Christian values.
Home schooling is another option. In 2020, the number of 5-17 year-old students who were home schooling rose to 9%. In addition, the curriculum and technical resources now available for home schooling makes this option more attractive every year.
Both of these non-government options have a cost, however. But when discerning a course of action, one must remember that the cost is not just financial, but also spiritual. What is the cost of sin to your child’s soul?
The End Game
Sexualization of Children is evident in today’s schools. Adults have forced the young to see too much. Children are being groomed not just to accept sin, but to be the next victim while being told they are the beneficiary.
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