Volition (15 min)
We need to remember WWII and the Nazis, not because they were a unique evil, worse than anything that had come before, but rather because they are an evil we can recognize as in our midst. Ignorance is said to be bliss, because if we do recognize our own day’s monstrous evil, then we are forced to make an uncomfortable decision. Then we either have to confront it, or realize that in our silence, we are complicit in aiding it.
Volition takes us to three time periods: the American South at the time of slavery, Germany in WWII, and our modern day. In each we see a good-looking young man – the same actor plays the lead in each of the three stories. We quickly realize that he is a nice man, with a good heart, but placed in a difficult situation. In the American South he is an earnest doctor, troubled by slavery; in Germany he is a quiet officer assigned to work with Jewish prisoners. He isn’t actively involved in the evil – it isn’t his idea to enslave blacks, or kill Jews. He isn’t doing anything to stop it either.
The third story takes place today, with the actor now playing the part of a passive boyfriend. His girlfriend is pregnant. His dad wants it dealt with. And the boyfriend doesn’t have any money to care for a child. So what can he do? What choice does he have?
As Volition shows, the answer to this question is clear from history. Evil doesn’t just happen – we allow it to happen. It may be initiated by only a few, but it is fed by the silence of all the others. May we never forget.
If we don’t make young Canadians care about our WW2 veterans, their sacrifices will soon die with them
“Young people’s understanding of history today is a field of fog. It is the Frankenstein result of relying on hundreds of disjointed 60-second TikTok videos stitched together to form their perspectives. They lack scaffolding. The names and faces of historic figures are blurry and out of order…”
Jonathan Haidt: AI is a “Neutron Bomb for Education”
This is a 40-minute YouTube video with the author of The Anxious Generation, and one of the people most responsible for getting smartphones out of many public schools. Here Haidt talks about AI’s impact on education and more.
Purging Christianity from our hospitals
Jonathon Van Maren details the campaign to purge Christianity out of the nation’s hospitals. Will that leave our hospitals some neutral territory where now, finally, non-Christians and Christians will both be able to seek treatment? Nope, that was already happening. Christian hospitals would treat both Christians and non-Christians because Christians know that everyone is made in God’s Image (Gen. 1:27).
What Christian hospitals won’t do, is murder their patients – if they really are Christian they won’t do abortions or euthanasia. Or cut off the healthy body parts of gender-confused Canadians. That’s what would change. “Neutral” secular hospitals will murder children and the elderly, and mutilate confused people at their request. That’s what secular neutrality looks like. The truth is, it’s either God’s good way, or Man’s wicked ways.
The Hudson Bay is shrinking?
20 years ago Al Gore used his film An Inconvenient Truth to get us worried about rising seas leaving Florida underwater. While he didn’t put a date to when it would happen, the impression left was that it could be some time soon. But even if present-rate sea level rises continued, it would take about 2000 years to get to the 20 feet rise he was worrying about.
Add to that a notion that shouldn’t surprise those of us who know the Great Engineer – that our world operates via means that are lot more complicated and surprising than the climate catastrophists would have us believe. The latest wrinkle? The Hudson Bay seems to be shrinking due to new land emerging from the ocean. Why is this happening? Isostatic rebound. What’s that? Compressed earth expanding after the ice sheets above it have disappeared.
Education for Death (10 minutes)
In 1943 Walt Disney created an animated film like no other in his collection. During World War II, his company was heavily involved in the war effort, producing cartoons featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and even Goofy, all doing their part. The most famous is probably “Der Fuehrer’s Face” in which Donald Duck gets the better of the Nazi dictator.
But the most intriguing might be “Education for Death.” Instead of Donald Duck or any of his comic sidekicks, this one featured a young German boy named Hans, and followed him from his birth registration, where his name had to be approved by a German magistrate, through his school years, where he is taught his purpose in life is to fight for the Fuehrer.
Some WWII propaganda films were unapologetically racist, but this one was almost the opposite. Instead of dehumanizing Germans, it showed the audience why they should pity the very soldiers they were fighting.
While the allegation is sometimes made that Hitler was Christian, the folks at Disney knew better than that. They include images of a crucifix being replaced with a Nazi sword, the Bible being replaced by Mein Kampf, and church windows being smashed. They knew that Nazis had no use for Christ or His followers.
Only somber humor in this one, but worth watching.