Parental rights are rooted in God's creation of the family and the authority that is given to parents over their children. Like everything else, when there's no grounding for morality, it's assumed the government gives you these rights. And what they can give, they can then take away. This is what the secularists refuse to understand. Rights don't just exist out of nowhere.
I enjoyed the entire episode, thank you. When I heard this, "the responsibility to ensure they develop their own autonomy and the requisite skills for citizenship as they mature into adults", the word "mature" in this context reminded me of statements made by the 1st Director-General of the WHO, G B Chisholm.
“Surely the training of children in homes and schools should be of at least as great public concern as are their vaccination or toxoiding, for their own protection and that of other people. Emotional and social health is at least as important as physical health; neither type of health can be held to be exclusively the concern of the parents, for it has much importance for the community.”
“The government of a country cannot organize and impose any social developments or external relations which are too far ahead of the state of MATURITY of its citizens. There would otherwise result internal conflict and dissension, producing a reactionary government and a retreat to a less MATURE stage of social development.“
“It is probable that these first two requirements would make wars unnecessary for MATURE normal people without NEUROTIC necessities, but their attainment depends on the ability of enough people in the right places to want to implement them, and few people are MATURE and without NEUROTIC necessities...It follows inevitably then that the third requirement, on which the attainment and the effectiveness of the others depend, is that there should be enough people in the world, in all countries, who are not as we are and always have been, and will not show the NEUROTIC necessities which we and every generation of our ancestors have shown. We have never had enough people anywhere who are sufficiently free of these NEUROTIC symptoms which make wars inevitable.”
“The necessity to fight wars...For a cause we must seek some consistent thread running through the weave of all civilizations we have known and preventing the development of all or almost all the people to a state of true MATURITY. What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization which we know anything? It must be a force which discourages the ability to see and acknowledge patent facts, which prevents the rational use of intelligence, which teaches or encourages the ability to dissociate and to believe contrary to and in spite of clear evidence, which produces inferiority, guilt and fear, which makes controlling other people's personal behavior emotionally necessary, which encourages prejudice and the inability to see, understand and sympathize with other people's points of view. Is there any force so potent and so pervasive that it can do all these things in all civilizations? There is-just one. The only lowest common denominator of all civilizations and the only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality, the concept of right and wrong, the poison long ago described and warned against as "the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
“For many generations we have bowed our necks to the yoke of the conviction of sin. We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our newspapers and others with a vested interest in controlling us...the unfortunate human race, deprived by these incubi of its only defences and its only reasons for striving, its reasoning power and its natural capacity to enjoy the satisfaction of its natural urges, struggles along under its ghastly self imposed BURDEN. The results, the inevitable results, are frustration, inferiority, NEUROSIS and inability to enjoy living, to reason clearly or to make a world fit to live in.”
“The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the related objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. Would they not be legitimate objectives of original education?“
Parental rights are rooted in God's creation of the family and the authority that is given to parents over their children. Like everything else, when there's no grounding for morality, it's assumed the government gives you these rights. And what they can give, they can then take away. This is what the secularists refuse to understand. Rights don't just exist out of nowhere.
I enjoyed the entire episode, thank you. When I heard this, "the responsibility to ensure they develop their own autonomy and the requisite skills for citizenship as they mature into adults", the word "mature" in this context reminded me of statements made by the 1st Director-General of the WHO, G B Chisholm.
https://mikemcclaughry.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/psychiatry-of-enduring-peace-and-social-progress-chisholm-and-sullivan-1946.pdf
“Surely the training of children in homes and schools should be of at least as great public concern as are their vaccination or toxoiding, for their own protection and that of other people. Emotional and social health is at least as important as physical health; neither type of health can be held to be exclusively the concern of the parents, for it has much importance for the community.”
“The government of a country cannot organize and impose any social developments or external relations which are too far ahead of the state of MATURITY of its citizens. There would otherwise result internal conflict and dissension, producing a reactionary government and a retreat to a less MATURE stage of social development.“
“It is probable that these first two requirements would make wars unnecessary for MATURE normal people without NEUROTIC necessities, but their attainment depends on the ability of enough people in the right places to want to implement them, and few people are MATURE and without NEUROTIC necessities...It follows inevitably then that the third requirement, on which the attainment and the effectiveness of the others depend, is that there should be enough people in the world, in all countries, who are not as we are and always have been, and will not show the NEUROTIC necessities which we and every generation of our ancestors have shown. We have never had enough people anywhere who are sufficiently free of these NEUROTIC symptoms which make wars inevitable.”
“The necessity to fight wars...For a cause we must seek some consistent thread running through the weave of all civilizations we have known and preventing the development of all or almost all the people to a state of true MATURITY. What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization which we know anything? It must be a force which discourages the ability to see and acknowledge patent facts, which prevents the rational use of intelligence, which teaches or encourages the ability to dissociate and to believe contrary to and in spite of clear evidence, which produces inferiority, guilt and fear, which makes controlling other people's personal behavior emotionally necessary, which encourages prejudice and the inability to see, understand and sympathize with other people's points of view. Is there any force so potent and so pervasive that it can do all these things in all civilizations? There is-just one. The only lowest common denominator of all civilizations and the only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality, the concept of right and wrong, the poison long ago described and warned against as "the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
“For many generations we have bowed our necks to the yoke of the conviction of sin. We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our newspapers and others with a vested interest in controlling us...the unfortunate human race, deprived by these incubi of its only defences and its only reasons for striving, its reasoning power and its natural capacity to enjoy the satisfaction of its natural urges, struggles along under its ghastly self imposed BURDEN. The results, the inevitable results, are frustration, inferiority, NEUROSIS and inability to enjoy living, to reason clearly or to make a world fit to live in.”
“The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the related objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. Would they not be legitimate objectives of original education?“
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=truth%2Cvalues%2Ccommunity&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3