Young Australians are exposed to unremitting attempts to destroy their consciences.

Television, internet, magazines, fashion, music — all desensitising them to alcohol, drugs, violence, extramarital sex, underage sexualisation and encouragements to be greedy.

School subjects are distorted to be more of the same, presenting a worldview where every facet of life is a power struggle.

Notions of virtue — of right and wrong — are sacrificed in the cause of making children consumers, mentally conformed to a feminist-dominated society.

It starts before the child can stand up — parked in front of the television at home, dropped off at a child-care centre — day after day learning that the world is a place in which mummies work.

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A step towards sanity might be for more children to learn history.

Properly taught, history shows a child that the world was not always like this.

The world does not, therefore, have to continue being like this.

There was once a world where you didn’t have a mobile phone.

A  world where you respected your parents.

A  world where you could leave your house unlocked.

A world where it was normal to commit yourself life-long to a husband/wife before using them sexually.

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In this world, there occurred the resurrection from the dead of one Jesus Christ — a real, historical, eyewitnessed, event.

The eyewitnesses included Peter, the fisherman-disciple, who ran to the graveyard that first Easter morning, finding, not Christ’s dead body, but an empty tomb.

Jesus then appeared to Peter and others — alive, talking, eating, still bearing crucifixion wounds.

Before the crucifixion, Peter had denied even knowing Jesus — a coward, wanting to save his skin.

Shortly after, Jesus ascended to heaven, leaving Peter (of all people) head of his Church.

They preached in Jerusalem and throughout the world.

Many were themselves killed by God’s enemies — the only way to silence him.

If Christ’s resurrection wasn’t true, just a yarn they had invented, would they have died rather than deny the message?

But the resurrection is true — the greatest thing ever to happen — in a different league from any other event.

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Meanwhile, back in 21^st century-land, that kind of history is not discussed in the media or in polite schools.

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