One definition of the transitive verb father as in “fathering,” according to Merriam-Webster is “to accept responsibility for.” In this country, due to generations of welfare, sex outside of marriage and divorce, the result has been millions of single mothers. God knew how this would create a societal longing among children for fathers.

Male inmates at a prison asked guards for Mother’s Day cards. They were granted their request. But when it came to Father’s Day a month later, not a single inmate asked for a card to send to their father. One can surmise they weren’t around to raise their sons. Or, if they were, perhaps it wasn’t consistently or with the kind of love and characteristics God expects of fathers.

God designed the father to be the head of the household and to take charge of the spiritual lives of his children. He is also to provide for his family financially. God is the perfect Father. But if you have had an absent or overly punitive father, you struggle to see God for Who He is. My father had excessive expectations of me, while not valuing the worth of girls. He had six daughters. No matter how critical, I still wanted the approval of my father. It also led to troubles with feeling valued by God.

It is not the student, but God, Himself, who is the professor’s target and Biblical truths once instilled in college students, that they might take them into their professions. However, now DEI mandates that oppose Godly principles are perpetuated by antagonistic professors and administrators who punish and squash the expression of Christian values. But these mandates are actually smokescreens for partiality, racism and Progressive uniformity of thought.

There is plenty of religious zeal on college campuses in America, but it is for things like the sanctity of the planet, rather than life in the womb. It is also about minorities as more deserving of admissions and good grades based on their skin color, and “safe spaces” for them to self-segregate. It is about the transgender movement and recently, Hamas sympathizing antisemitism. These evil and delusional things create great pressure on students to not only acknowledge, but promote. If they do not, from peers to professors, they may likely be ostracized, alienated or suffer academically.

The other half of the student’s response to her professor is that she was raised in church with the belief that God is male. That did not gain her any traction with having her grade elevated. Being raised in church is not what university staff care about. What matters is pronouns and power over the patriarchy—though they are just fine with females attempting to turn themselves into males with transgender surgeries. The theology professor’s response was a cool: “Resubmit your paper adding a footnote stating your reasons as a scholar to opt to preserve the male language for God.”

This smacks of the cunning of the devil asking, “Is God really male?” The enemy knows that God is Spirit (John 4:24) and cannot be placed in a gender box.

When parents heard this story, they complained that young adult children should be safe from “subjective, punitive and unjust actions at Catholic institutions.” Ouch. There is that word “safe” that is running head-bobbing college administrators and diversity departments ragged to provide comfort zones for young adults to protect them from imaginary dragons of harm and offense. Christians need not apply though. Truly, the world will hate us because it also hated Christ (John 15:18).

Parents should expect their children to be physically safe at universities, but God never said to shield young adults from suffering for the faith as followers of Christ. “But even if you suffer for doing what is right, God will reward you for it. So don’t worry or be afraid of their threats” (1Peter 3:14).

           Yet, no doubt the same noble sacrifice ascribed to Rachel would not be given to the Christian student in prayer and fasting against the cultural tide of rebellion against God—a real existential threat to the survival of America and other Western nations.

            Consider a college student attending Catholic Loyola Marymount College. She was stunned to receive a poor grade on a paper from her theology professor for referring to God as male (“Catholic University Student Penalized for Referring to God as a Man” The Federalist, 12/22/21).

            Her response to her LGBT++ activist professor, “I feel targeted by your comment…” left me a bit dismayed. She engaged in the very same feelings-based, victimology verbiage so common on the Left. They never stop feeling offended by everything from our Constitution to Mr. Potato Head.

            The fact that a radical, LGBT++ activist is even on staff as a theology professor at a Catholic University is a barometer of where we are as a society. A.W. Tozer said, “Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society’s own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.”

The Pope is doing such. He leads the way in a kind of Marxist Liberation theology heavy on social justice rather than on pointing people to Jesus to be saved. But then, he has said that everyone, including atheists are saved. He is the only figurehead of any denomination of Christianity that gets a seat at the U.N. table to perpetuate the deception of Climate Change—which he does. He also has an issue with the sovereignty of nations and the right to protect their borders from unlawful, mass migration. And, just recently, he gave his approval for same-sex couples to be blessed by priests.

Many other churches too, have begun filling pastor appointments with homosexuals, draping the entrances to their houses of worship with rainbow flags and taking up a pro-abortion, detestable-to-God shedding of innocent blood advocacy. Others inject Critical Race Theory, or the concept that in order to stop racism, one must be racist towards Caucasians, into children’s Sunday school lessons. If churches are becoming less inclined to counter culture, how much more so are colleges, even though many were founded on Biblical principles?

The fact is, even at faith-based colleges, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mandates reign supreme. The student appears to be in a no-win kind of situation. Just what does academic pursuit have to do with defending how God chose to reveal Himself to mankind? If this student wrote a paper about her father as a “he,” would she be taken to task for referring to dads as males? Maybe. Even our own Congress has tried to toss out gender in favor of being “woke.”

In an article titled, “No more ‘he’ or ‘she,’ House Approves Gender-neutral Terms in its Official Language,” McClatchy DC, 1/4/21, Nancy Pelosi is quoted as saying: “As House Speaker, I am pleased to join Chairman Jim McGovern in introducing this visionary rules package, which reflects the views and values of the full range of our historically diverse House Democratic Majority.”

The package she refers to is specific, official language found in the House rules. Here are just a few of the words found in various parts of the code they voted to eliminate: mother, father, daughter, son, sister, brother, and himself and herself replaced with themself.

It seems the fix was already in with a poor grade that could only be raised if the student convinced her professor that it is acceptable to preserve God’s reference to Himself. To do so she would have to find a way out of dragging Him into twenty-first century academia’s obsession with gender inclusivity and preferred pronouns.

We cannot dispute or cancel God’s choice to reveal Himself to humanity in the male form. From the Book of Acts to the Book of Revelation, the Greek word “Theos,” or a reference to God as male is mentioned nine-hundred times. One-hundred-and-sixty times, Christ referred to God as the Father. Yet, as of right now, Bibles are being re-written with gender-neutral pronouns so as not to offend the gender confused, the “toxic masculinity crowd” or those who rail against the patriarchy.

            Indoctrination and activism are rife on so many of this nation’s college campuses. Young adults are not okay as they wrestle with issues that are painful psychologically, emotionally and spiritually.

            Consider the worldview of nineteen-year-old Sophomore Rachel. She posted on her social media that she had taken to her bedroom for a two-day vow of silence and fasting in contrition for the planet.

            When I saw her post, I was both a bit frustrated and sympathetic over what has been called for a number of years now, the existential threat of Climate Change. Rachel really believes that in her lifetime the planet will fry to a crisp where it isn’t submerged under water unless we get off fossil fuels immediately.

            The narrative affects even children in middle school. In 2019, the late Senator Dianne Feinstein found herself in a bit of a heated exchange with ten-year-olds for her then decision to vote no to the “Green New Deal.” The “Deal” not a lot of people know explained how we would recycle our own urine for drinking, and promised a cozy chair in every U.S. home. Probably because those selling it do not intend for us to travel very far.

            To be good stewards of God’s earth and engage in conservation are positive, Biblical endeavors. I do not purport to be a climatologist, but the dire threat of Climate Change painted by the likes of politicians and actors has filled so many young adults with grief, anger and depression, it is hard to watch. It is a crisis narrative that has a nefarious agenda. It is gaining momentum through the World Economic Forum, this administration, and corporations in efforts to manipulate and control the population’s behaviors like mobility and purchases.

            While we do see a lot of weather phenomena today, the Bible tells us that there will be an increase in disasters like earthquakes in the last days. The New Living Translation of the Bible calls them “…only the first of birth pains, with more to come” (Matthew 24:7-8). God also said that He would never again destroy the earth by flood (Genesis 9:11). Neither is His Master Plan for the planet’s eight billion inhabitants to succumb to hot weather before Jesus returns. A third of the world population will be destroyed, but during the Great Tribulation, not the Great Temperature Fluctuation.

            Rachel’s post garnered a lot of likes and sympathetic responses. When she returned to school, her fellow classmates gave their approval. Her professors allowed her to make up two exams she missed while she spent her time in silent hunger.

            According to Leslie Davenport, who is a “Climate Psychologist Therapist” at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Rachel’s behavior is normal. Davenport says in the emerging field of Climate Anxiety, it is not only expected for young people to be distressed, grieved and angry, but that these feelings are healthy because it shows they care about the existential threat of Climate Change. With record numbers of drug overdoses and suicides in this age range, I wonder just how healthy they are. So many are fearful, hopeless and with emptier wallets over a sham.

            But even the co-founder of Greenpeace has been calling radical Climate Change a sham for more than ten years. “There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past one-hundred years,” said Moore, who testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight (“Greenpeace Co-Founder Tells Truth About Climate Change,” Investor’s Business Daily, 2013).

Australian Professor Ian Plimer who wrote “Green Murder” says, “In this book I charge the greens (governments gone green) with murder. They murder humans who are kept in eternal poverty without coal-fired electricity. They support slavery and early deaths of black child miners. They murder forests and their wildlife by clear felling for mining and wind turbines…They murder economies producing unemployment, hopelessness, collapse of communities, disrupted social cohesion and suicide.

“They murder free speech and freedoms and their takeover of the education system has ended up in the murdering of the intellectual and economic future of young people. They terrify children into mental illness with their apocalyptic death cult lies and exaggerations.”