Keep Your Kids from the Kool-Aid

By Wes Bredenhof - Posted at Abounding Grace:

Published July 2, 2025

Public education is a mortal spiritual danger to our children -- we ought to treat it as such.

In November 1978, over 900 people committed mass suicide in the South American country of Guyana. They were Americans. They were part of a cult headed by Jim Jones. They had fled to South America to escape growing opposition to the cult in the United States. However, American officials started investigating reports of abuse in Guyana as well. An American congressman came to visit and was murdered along with four others. This led Jones to proclaim that the end was near – it was only a matter of time before American forces would storm his compound. He instructed all his followers to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Obediently, almost all of them did, including 304 children and young people.

This is where the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid” comes from. It refers to people ingesting poison under the influence of a powerful leader. Of course, today nobody is referring to literal poison – it’s used to refer to poisonous ideas.

Today there are plenty of poisonous ideas floating about. There are powerful influences doing everything they can to get our children to “drink the Kool-Aid.”The world wants our children to buy into poisonous ways of thinking. These ways of thinking are destructive and dangerous. They’re Satanic.

Let’s just think for a moment about homosexuality and transgenderism. The world doesn’t just want our children to accept and tolerate these perversions. No, the world will settle for nothing less than affirmation and celebration...

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