There has never been a time in the history of these United States when there was a greater need for truly genuine Christian fathers than now. Study after study shows that children raised in two parent traditional families have not only a much better chance of success in life, but also see a significant reduction in mental health issues including reduced levels of suicide. The dark days in which we are living cry out for a solid cadre of real men who will stand up and be counted for truth and righteousness — steadfastly taking their rightful position in the family. Men living heroic lives must ultimately be the nuclear family’s protectors from the forces of evil who would destroy its foundations and that of our nation.
Perhaps, though, the saddest commentary on our national society is the absence of this rare subset of humanity. Some years ago, I was blessed to spend three days in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. During that time, I asked the warden about any practical needs that the inmates might have. His initial response was not necessarily surprising for the springtime of the year as he told me that there was a huge demand for Mothers’ Day cards. What was astonishing, though, was his response to my follow up question about the need for Fathers’ Day cards when he simply said, “Our men have no need for that type of cards because they have no fathers to send them to.” So, in these days when our culture finds itself in such turmoil, it is not too difficult to follow the dots to one of the most serious failures in our American society.
A recent study was done by the nonprofit organization Communio, which suggested that a “collapse in marriage and resident fatherhood is fueling widespread loneliness.” Adding to the point, the researchers asserted that “what we are seeing is the net effect of all that is the crisis of loneliness; that the loneliest people walking around in our churches, in our communities, are actually not the elderly or widows. It’s men and women in their 30s.” This epidemic of loneliness is echoed by an advisory issued by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on May 3 of this year proclaiming that this phenomena of isolation in the U. S. could be as deadly as smoking.
Their findings also indicated that “of all Sunday church attendees, 80% across all demographics were raised in a continuously married home with both biological parents.” If you connect this data with that of a report by Pew Research Center and the General Social Survey that was published in September showing a surge of adults leaving Christianity to become atheist, agnostic, or “nothing in particular,” the reality is even more startling. Clearly this phenomenon of the collapse of resident fathers in the home is at the very heart of the “unravelling of Christianity” in our nation. Even more frightening is the prediction that “the growth of the religious nones is unlikely to stabilize until 25-30 years after married fatherhood stops its decline.”
Perhaps the pertinent question should be asked: where have all the fathers gone? For the answer to this most important query, you need to look no further than to the so called “woke Marxist culture” which has declared all-out war on the traditional family because it stands in the way of their sordid concept of the physical world. What better way to create utter chaos in society than by destroying the family structure? What better way to destroy the family structure than by emaciating the familial role of men as fathers? Satan himself is standing gleefully by in the shadows as men are told that masculine Christian leadership in the family must be abolished. The result is that there is not only an increase in loneliness because the traditional roles of men and women have been demolished, but also our culture is being flooded with an unchecked wave of alcohol, illicit drugs, and pornography, along with cheap and often deviant sex. When there are so few real fathers standing in the gap for their families, impenetrable roadblocks are created that prevent real, committed, and loving relationships between men and women and their offspring. To add to this misery, this bill of goods is being sold to even our youngest and most impressionable children even in preschool curriculums and classrooms across America. Ask yourself why the radical left is so ardently pushing all this gobbledygook of deviant misinformation, and you may begin to understand the seriousness of the vicious scheme of destruction now unleashed in our country.
Here is the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Satan’s demonic minions are at this moment trying to load our children onto the train cars that will take them to their ultimate death camp destinations. Only this time, these concentration camps aren’t called by the names of Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, Buchenwald, or Ravensbruck. No, these camps are known by other names like pornography, fentanyl, Marxism, sexual deviancies, sex trafficking and atheism. In some sense these destinations are even more deadly than those awful hellholes of Nazi Germany because these are not only designed to bring physical death but spiritual death as well.
Now is the time for all good and decent men to not only come to the aid of their country, but to also stand up and be counted for themselves and their families. Enough of this malaise wrought by the very demons of darkness. The urgency of this hour requires that the real faithful men of America, particularly those of us who call ourselves Christian, adhere to the admonition of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 16:13 when he urges the males in the church in that great city to “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” Our nation, our children, and our families simply cannot wait 25-30 years for us to get our acts straight and begin to live heroically once again. God help the children and our nation if we do not.
After a distinguished career as both a lawyer and a judge, Judge Phil Ginn retired as the Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for the 24th Judicial District in North Carolina. Over the course of his 22-year judicial career, he was privileged to hold court in almost 50% of the county seats in North Carolina. Currently, Judge Ginn serves as the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary.