THE LONG MARCH

It's been a long march and it's apparent: it has reached its goal. The march is over. It began decades ago based on an observation from history: there are such things as violent revolutions such as the French Revolution (18th century) and the Bolshevik Revolution (Russian) in 1917 but then there are non-violent ones.

After the Bolshevik Revolution, hopes were high that its poison would spread to the West, but, no, that didn't happen because the heritage on which Western Civilization was built, Christianity, abhorred socialism/communism.

It was then that a new concept came into existence, a different kind of revolution, but a revolution nonetheless. Student activist Rudi Dutschke (a prominent spokesman of the German student movement of the 1960s) invented a term for a bloodless revolution; he called it, "the long march through the institutions." They would accomplish the revolution in the West through a long march through the institutions of the West, not through seizing power from the state.

They would direct the march through the institutions of the West--through schools, universities, courts, governments and through the media, through newspapers and television. Those who wanted to destroy Western Civilization would, over the long march, take control of those institutions.

Back in 1950, a young William F. Buckley published "God and Man at Yale." Although to my knowledge, he never used the term "the long march through the institutions," his book pointed out that Yale University had undergone a revolution i. e., the departure from the Christian goals of its founders.

Buckley pointed to the fact that the religion department and Yale's religious education was in the hands of atheists and agnostics; one professor proclaimed that he was 80% atheist and 20% agnostic. In his book, Buckley noted how the religion professors either ridiculed and attacked Christianity or ignored it. (In the ignoring, the message to the students came through loud and clear: Christianity is not worth considering.)

He referenced the economics department and its emphasis and support of collectivism and its malignment of capitalism. Whether the courses were in the religion or economics departments, the textbooks and professors more than leaned against Christianity and capitalism, they came against them.

Then Buckley examined the student organizations and found them to be wanting at Yale. In one service organization, purportedly "Christian," its officers and ushers at it services could be atheists and agnostics and many were elected to such posts.

That was 1950, the march was on and advancing. Now, after marching for 70 years, the students who came out of the Yales, the Harvards, and the universities have successfully marched through the institutions. They are in control of our newspapers, our TV networks, our kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools. They write the scripts for the movies we watch and the textbooks students study. They control parliaments and political parties. They're sitting on the benches of our judicial system and man the bureaucracies as untouchables in the electoral process. Our children are under their sway for the majority of their waking hours, Monday through Friday and when they watch TV or go to the movies.

The march has been so successful that they're able to tell us whom we are not to criticize and whom we must praise. Their march has been so successful that for anyone to say or write that men and women are different becomes liable for a punishable offense. If one were to point out that there are two genders, he comes under fire. The march has been so well-done that if one uses the pronoun deemed inappropriate, there are fines and possible jail time when the court convenes.

Satan has his strategies. Satan knows the human race. The march has achieved its goals and will continue. What we are seeing has been preplanned. It didn't just happen. It was a strategy. It worked. (Ephesians 6:11)

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