A CULTURAL DEATH WISH

Last week I reported on the program of gender mainstreaming, in process now for several decades. Under pressure from well financed and influential groups many western governments are adopting it—Alberta and Ontario leading the way in Canada. Its end aim is to dispense with the traditional idea of male and female, and replace it with a genderless society.

This may seem far-fetched, but elimination of the terms “father” and “mother” from children’s kindergartens and schools shows how the program is progressing. “Parent one” and “parent two” (or three or more) eliminates the opposite-sex understanding of parenthood.

Gay “marriage” already leads the way to the lesser significance of traditional sexual roles. The inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) as alternate genders further dilutes the idea of two distinct sexes. 

Sexual deviation no longer exists, only sexual orientation, which allows freedom of all sexual expressions and removes the stigma. Declare these “human rights,” and liberating our baser instincts becomes human achievement.

However, this direction is unsustainable. Let me present two primary reasons. First, the decay of western nations by attrition is this culture’s death wish.

The rush to satisfy personal desires, masked as “rights,” has resulted in lowering birthrates and populations. Gay “marriage,”—essentially infertile—abortion, euthanasia, and contraception have reduced Canada’s birthrate to 1.61 children per female, which continues to fall far below the minimum 2.4 needed to maintain the population.

Most western nations are experiencing similar inadequate birthrates. While the west promotes the laudable influx of refugees from disaster areas, the need for importing people to make up for birthrate loss is an undeclared motivating factor. It is unlikely that national “adoption” of imported families will be able to alleviate population loss in the long term.

Yet, while our culture demands we preserve the planet’s ecology as nature requires, the culture defies nature’s plan of male and female for procreation and nurture of offspring. We have already seen the disastrous imbalance of men over women after China’s “one child” policy, and India’s infanticide of girls—the two most populous nations on earth.

Second, gender mainstreaming opposes truth. During preceding centuries, the bedrock of Christianity provided a system of complying with nature as God created it. With all its faults and wars, western culture has continued to flourish until this century. The current decline of western civilization follows a retreat from its former godly heritage.

Christianity is struggling against increasing hostility and persecution, aided by the apathetic response of most Christians. If Christians pursue their personal goals in place of the imperatives of the faith, Christianity will continue to weaken and the errors plaguing our culture will grow.

Christianity is resilient, however. Repeatedly, as Christianity’s end is predicted and persecution intensifies, its basic message of hope revives the hunger of people for God’s transcendent order of life and the equality and dignity of all humans before God. Genuine, concerted prayer for revival, and fearless proclamation of the truth, will unmask the false directions of our times.