The Neo-Palestinians over at Prager U have some interesting thoughts to add about the reason why so many young people are unhappy these days:

None other than the chief Neo-Palestinian goes into the details there, and he does so with, I readily admit, great precision and eloquence.

Unfortunately, he cannot help but lie about those nonsensical “Judaeo-Christian values” upon which America was supposedly founded.

There are people of (((a certain ethnic origin))) who read this blog regularly, and they are very warmly welcomed here. I like them a lot. I greatly respect their views on faith and religion, even if I disagree quite strongly with them. I really like their country; I visited it in 2014 and would absolutely love to go back.

But one thing that I cannot bloody STAND about their American brethren, at least, is their extremely annoying penchant for conflating Judaism with Christianity.

The two are NOT the same faith. Indeed, modern Judaism – not Biblical Judaism, but Talmudic Judaism – is a younger faith than Christianity is, by a good 400 years at least. The two are violently opposed to each other and all anyone has to do to figure this out is to look up a decent translation of the Babylonian compilation of the Talmud.

The passages in there about how Gentiles are beasts in the shape of men who can be subjugated at will to serve Jewish interests are bloodcurdling and outrageous, and once the context is given, it is absolutely unsurprising that learned pastors and ministers of the Church – such as a certain Martin Luther – were enraged by what they found and recommended in the strongest possible terms to secular rulers that Jewish rabbis needed to be stopped from spreading such poison.

That being said… Dennis Prager is right about one thing: young people around the world are deeply unhappy these days.

And that is because everything that they have been taught throughout their entire lives is essentially a direct rebellion against God.

Not just any god, by the way – but God the Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. God, who is the LORD, and whose Son was, is, and will be King over all of the nations of the Earth.

Everything that the Millennials and Gen-Z have had impressed upon them by their elders and peers is against the laws of God – indeed, they have been taught to reject God in His entirety, because He imposes shackles and burdens upon them that no free young person should have to endure. Or so goes their line of thinking.

Calling this infantile and foolish is stating the obvious. The real problem arises with the fact that any society that rejects strictures placed upon its behaviour, the meaning and manner of said boundaries being beyond the influence of men, will inevitably fall to its destruction.

That is not my original thesis. Several anthropologists and historians have extensively studied human civilisations and all of them have come to basically the same conclusions. The moment that a society rejects boundaries placed upon it by a force greater than anything that mere men can muster, it begins its slow and terrible headlong plunge into the abyss of its doom.

Laws made by men can be broken and redefined and changed at will. But laws that come from the gods – and especially laws that come from THE God – are not to be taken lightly or spurned easily, no matter how inconvenient they become.

What we are witnessing today is the deep unhappiness of entire generations of young people who have been cut off from God and the numinous. Their journey back to their Creator will be long, difficult, and full of extremely unpleasant lessons. But that is the price that they will have to pay for rebelling against the very authority that created them and everything around them, and which gave them that infinitely precious gift of free will that allowed them to make that rebellion in the first place.

Getting back in touch with God does not guarantee happiness. I speak from personal experience when I say that fearing God and His anger actually makes life more difficult in some ways, because one has to spurn all sorts of pleasures that one might otherwise indulge in without fear of consequences. And it is hard on a man’s psyche to see everything that he tries to do, come to naught, and feel as though he is being punished for something that he didn’t even know he did wrong.

That is a terrible feeling indeed. There is simply no getting past it. That punishment has to be endured in order for greater understanding to come through.

As I have stated numerous times before, the only decision that you ever take that really matters in the end is which side you choose: with Him, or against Him. Every other decision, large or small, essentially comes down to that. And when you work with Him, attempting to understand what He wants for you, why He tests you, and where He is leading you, then life becomes a lot easier to manage and understand.

It still isn’t fun, necessarily. It’s not an easy journey. But it is a journey filled with purpose.

And that purpose is what young folks today are missing. There is only one way to get it, and they reject that way.

That, sadly, will be their undoing – and the undoing of a once-great and prosperous civilisation in the process.