Faith Filled Family Magazine July 2016 | Page 101

the perfect venue to force conformity to societal - not godly— norms. Younger minds are like sponges and they soak up information. Sometimes it is obvious when society tries to indoctrinate our children to non-Christ centric teachings, such as evolution. Sometimes the world is a bit more deceitful in their efforts when attacking our beliefs and ways of living. Now, when I grew up and started elemen- world is consistently getting worse and pushing for a life opposite of what God wants from us. Society’s views and standards change as new ideas and beliefs are injected into the world. These beliefs are not from God of course, they are from Satan. Satan is slowly convincing the world to hate God more than ever. He’s trying to turn the world against God and has been since the Garden of Eden. The unchanging. God is perfect and His ways are just. God will not lead us to destruction like Satan wants to do, but He will lead us to heaven. Satan and death have already been defeated, he just wants to take as many as he can down with the ship. tary school in 1980 through high school graduation and then college, in retrospect and comparing my experience with those of my children, I can see the exponential growth of society’s use of the school system in order to indoctrinate children to their beliefs and worldview. thing about it is the effort of turning us away from Him has been so gradual over time that people didn’t notice society is now at the other side of righteousness on an extreme and growing level. Through incremental changes, little by little, Satan has been influencing attitudes and belief systems to be contrary to God. And now here we are. We are living in the world where the fruit of his labor is clearly seen. Now God’s desire for how we live is and has always been steady and seem to change frequently and haphazardly, the world passes this off as the progress of humanity. Two years ago, who would have thought that males and females would be sharing bathrooms here in the US? It used to be that if a male went into the bathroom of a female, they would get in a lot of trouble, but now the trouble stems from the act of denying access to those who identify with a gender other than the one to which they were born. Society is using schools as What the world wants us to believe equates to a 180 degree turn from what God shows us and wants us to live. It doesn’t matter what the issue is, the Schools are doing their best to imprint what the world, or society, thinks is best on our children. Though these accepted norms