Children For Sale

By Gary Amirault

Imagine yourself in a state of poverty in which you felt your children were better off with strangers than with yourself because you were unable to care for them. What qualifications would you be looking for in the stranger who offered to buy them? How careful would you be in determining the purchaser’s character? How much time would you spend asking the right questions. Would you do a character check? How deeply would you pry into their background?

On the Fourth of July weekend, we went to an outdoor concert featuring a country rock band. The person who wrote the grant to bring in the band asked me what I thought of the band. Of course, she was expecting a compliment. And most people would accommodate her, which is what I did. “They had good voices and played their instruments well,” I said. However, I am quite convinced the mother who was selling her children in this picture would not have sold her children to that band if she based her decision on the words in the songs the band was playing. She would have certainly found them vulgar, sexually explicit and completely inappropriate for children to be listening to. And she would have thought them to be inappropriate for adults as well. And she would have been right.

If this woman feeling forced to sell her children saw and heard what we expose our children to via television, radio, movies, billboards, magazines, video games, Ipads, internet, music, school, government laws, etc, she would be shocked. She would think this generation has sold their kids to the devil. And she would be right. If we did a background check looking for some semblance of decency, morality, caring, generosity, truthfulness, love, selflessness, we would find the leaders of the institutions we trust with our children to be totally lacking in these traits. Like I said the top of our Ayn Rand, Darwin food chain is totally corrupt. It is the “lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life” magnified to its fullest. And we wonder why the foundations are beginning to crack all over the place.

In the Western Democratic food chain in which the “fittest” rise to the top, when one removes the cosmetics and facades from the corporate heads, one will find the “fittest” are “murderers, liars and thieves who come but to kill steal and destroy.” And they own this generation through the media and institutions they control. We read of sex slave trafficking in third world countries and pedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church and we are shocked and outraged. If we really had eyes to see and ears to hear, we would find far worse going on right in our own homes and neighborhoods…that is, if we really had eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts that are actually in tune with our Creator instead of in tune with I-tunes and Hollywood.  Father, give us those ears and eyes to see what we have become and turned our children into. Give us a heart to be able to say, “No more!”