Last month in my article “Honor As a Defining Principle for Life,” I offered some thoughts on the devastation caused by fatherless cultures:
Over the years, I have known ungrateful sons who have physically punched their Christian fathers; I have sat with professing Christian young men intent on justifying their lack of moral self control on alleged theological differences with their authority figures. It is all too common these days to meet men who will look you in the eye and, in one breath speak about their profound concern for doctrinal truth, and in the other shamefully mock and expose the weaknesses of their godly fathers to the world in order to justify their personal rebellion in the spirit of Ham. There are far too many accounts of professing Christian men who have been richly blessed by employers, pastors, and authority figures, who now seek to advance themselves by staging coups against their leaders in the treasonous spirit of Adonijah.
The following quote from Teddy Roosevelt, found in
Lost Causes (by Dr. George Grant, a featured speaker at the
2006 History of the World Mega-Conference) provides additional encouragement against a culture of dishonorable sons.
“We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing, and also fearless and strong, able to hold their own in the hurly-burly of the world’s work, able to strive mightily that the forces of right may be in the end triumphant. And we must be ever vigilanat in so telling them.”