Curtis Bowers has spent the past two decades warning Americans about the rising Marxist revolution. On this broadcast, Curtis will give us an update and help us understand what we ought to teach our children. Like never before, Marxist revolutionaries have taken to the streets. They took over Hollywood and the classrooms many years ago. Now their ideas are now mainstreamed, livestreamed on mainstreet. Many in the younger generation have absorbed their philosophies. How do we resist this movement? How do we raise a generation which can uphold biblical truth?

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Well welcome to the Church and Family Life podcast. I'm Scott Brown and with me is Jason Dome. Hey Jason. Hi Scott, here we are again. Okay, are you ready to talk about Marxism and this Marxist revolution that we got going around here?

I'm ready. Okay, well Church and Family Life exists to proclaim the sufficiency of scripture for the spread of the gospel across the generations and this week we have with us Curtis Bowers. Hello Curtis. Hello, how are you guys doing? Good, it's so good to see you.

Thank you. So Curtis, many years ago you made a film called Agenda Grinding Down America and then you, after exposing you know the things that have been happening in the public school, the media and the government, in Hollywood, you made another film called Agenda 2, Masters of Deceit. Everybody should see those films. I really, really appreciate you taking the time to do that. And you also have a podcast called Faith, Family, and Freedom.

And boy, I hope everybody can tune into those as well. You know, you're just continuing to sound the alarm for what's going on in America. There's also, by the way, you know, there is also the Bowers Family Singers. Don't I know it. Wow, You've got to hear the Bowers family singers.

That's a whole nother. We could do a whole podcast on the Bowers family singers and what they're up to in prisons and everywhere else they can go and encourage people. So anyway, we really appreciate you. You're a father and a filmmaker. You were a businessman turned filmmaker.

And but all this didn't come out of thin air. Like for example, your father, your father wrote a book called The Naked Truth. I have several copies of this. Hey, by the way, if anybody wants to get some of these books, I have several for sale. And they're really good.

Curtis, what your father did in this book is he was really unpacking another book called The Naked Communist. And in that book, he identifies the communist goals. This was written in 1958. I'm just gonna read some of them. Communist goals, 1958, your father recorded them.

Get control of the schools. Gain control of the newspapers. Infiltrate the press. Gain control of key positions in radio TV and motion pictures continue dismantling American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression Control the art critics and the directors of the art museums. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity, calling them censorship.

Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity, books and magazines and motion pictures, blah, blah, blah. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal natural and healthy. Infiltrate the churches, eliminate prayer from schools Discredit the American Constitution and call it inadequate old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the big picture.

Eliminate all laws or procedures that interfere with the operation of communist apparatus. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Oh my. Discredit the family as an institution.

Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition. I'll stop there. That's only a few. Boy, your dad nailed it, didn't he?

And then his son is driving the nail deeper. So We really appreciate your work in this whole area. Curtis, can you trace for us the historical picture, the storyline of this Marxist revolution that's taking place right now in most visible forms? It's been taking place a long time. Man, it's like way above the surface now.

Right, we are under the illusion that everything was okay. The communism truly had died when the Berlin Wall came down and it's just gonna be baseball and apple pie forever. But as I've studied Marxism now for decades, I knew, no, they mean what they say. And they have an agenda. Lenin himself a hundred years ago in 1920 said, first we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, we will encircle the last bastion of capitalism the United States of America We will not need to fight It will fall as a ripe fruit into our hands, because they knew what they were doing to degrade our morality, undermine our families, destroy our churches from the inside.

By the time they had surrounded us and were ready for the final assault, they wouldn't have to fire a shot. We would fall like a ripe fruit. And so, having studied these things and knowing their agenda, how committed they are to this satanic goal of enslaving the world, yeah, We have been totally put to sleep. They in the 30s and 40s and 50s were working their way into education. Why?

Because they knew the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. The position God has given the family is the most powerful position in the entire world and that's why they don't want you to do that. We'll take your kids, you women go off to work, you men go watch some sports, give us the kids. You need to do something meaningful. It was all purposeful to turn us away from our families like it said there so they could raise the children because they knew if they raised the children they would have the future and so yeah the last several months many have awakened what's going on Why are they burning down the buildings?

What is this? As if it was something new. And as I speak all over, I've been in 20 states just in the last three months, I tell them, listen, all you're seeing is a fruit on the tree that was planted a hundred years ago as it started working its way into capturing the institutions of influence so they could change America from within. And that's what this is. The 60s was an obvious season where they just openly started pushing the rebellion.

The reason they were able to do that is unfortunately the greatest generation which were wonderful people in the 40s and 50s they were not plugged into their families like they should have been. So their children were sitting ducks for this new idea, this new you know thing to come along and so they jumped right into it and they started you know trying to revolt at that time. A lot of people don't realize it's very important. Just in 1972, and I tell you this to let you know we've already been there and done that, but there's something different today and I'll explain that. But in 1972 the communists through the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America, they tried to start a revolution.

Now think in your mind the answer to this question that I will tell you. How many bombings of buildings do you think there was in just 1972, just in America, how many buildings were blown up? Think for a second and I will tell you, 1,900. Five buildings a day were blown up every day of 1972 by the communists and they thought that would get a revolution going but it didn't because there was too much Christian fabric in the people because Christian people aren't gonna rise up and start killing each other off and so They realized then after that effort through the 60s and early 70s. Okay, it's not gonna work We have got to get into education even more Hollywood media so we can change the people and so now 50 years later the buildings are burning down and our kids are out there with them Because they raised the children, you know, I was in high school I was I was a senior in high school in 1972 and I remember it very well It was a time of tremendous tumult and you know, there were fires on college campuses all around us and even a little bit in high school campuses.

But I think most people thought, well, this really is really kind of like an extension of the Watts Riots. It's kind of, it'll die down, But it was something much bigger than what anybody believed. That's right. And it just, the revolution continued, but it went underground into capturing the hearts and minds and souls of our children. Because they knew we don't have enough troops.

We weren't able to get it going, so we've got to raise the troops so they'll be ready next time we try to do this. Curtis, what do you say to somebody who says that the teaching of Scripture is really teaching a socialistic paradigm, sort of cloaking socialism in Christianity? Well, if you've studied the Bible in its entirety, you realize that's not true. The Bible is for helping the poor, but that's individually. The Bible is for being kind one to another, but that's individually.

It's all a choice. God has given us the right thing to choose, but it's not from a government. It's not where you're taking things by force from one person and giving it to another because that is theft in itself. It's the very definition of injustice. But they've changed the definitions.

So social justice means just that. The new definition of justice is it's right to take things from force, from people that have more than others and give it to them. That's right and good. So they've perverted things. All the goodwill that was done by Jesus and the disciples was voluntary, out of a love in their heart wanting to share.

And that's wonderful and we need to be doing that more individually so there's not as many things for the government to be doing. And of course all this started in the 30s when the church started pulling out of the welfare situation and allowed government to take it over. But it's, we've, we've got a long way to go, but, but the lie that is being sold to the church is that no, yes, socialism is just and fair and it's the exact opposite of the truth. Curtis, you've given us some points along the timeline. You've talked about 1937, you've talked about 1972.

Could you just sort of fill out the historical picture up to the moment? Because we're in a moment that is, it feels different. It is different. It's very different. And I think many are realizing this doesn't look good.

It's again, then through the 70s and 80s. We had Reagan in the 80s, so we thought everything was fine. But the president can only do very limited things to help us. He can't raise the families for us. He can't make the churches strong.

He can't do those things, but we kept coasting through the 70s, the 80s, the films had more pornography and just the average film, more filth, more violence, and it just kept growing behind the scenes. And we just kept thinking, it's gonna be okay. America will always be okay. And we were so busy doing what they wanted us to do, just being sidetracked on sports and entertainment and vacations and fun and games that we wouldn't notice when our children had been hijacked, when our culture had been hijacked. And so then through the 90s, I remember reading a survey in the late 80s, I believe it was in US News and World Report.

It had a survey of Midwestern college professors. This is in the late 80s. And they had the choice of choosing if they were more aligned with Democrats, Republicans, independents. Marxist was one of them, and several different philosophies and ideologies. In Marxism, this is 1989, Marxism, the majority of professors said they aligned most with the Marxist philosophy, even over the Democratic Party or something.

So they did it. They pulled between the 60s and the 80s, they took over all higher education because again, they wanted to raise the children. And so- Hey, let me just give you, I'm gonna give you an illustration of that. Can you keep your train the thought? Yeah.

I, I, I, I'm a history major in college in the early mid seventies and I'm taking an African history course. I'm taking several courses in African history. All I realize all my professors are actual Marxist revolutionaries from Africa. And they all had, you know, accents that bore witness to where they were from. And these guys were involved in the murderous Marxist revolutions in Africa, and they were my professors.

And it didn't actually even hit me at that time what was going on. I know I got a master's at University of Colorado in 1991 in education, because I thought I'd be a high school principal one day, I hadn't heard about homeschooling yet. And every class, every period, It was just total Marxist ideology in every class, every course. There wasn't one class of that entire master's degree that would help someone be a good teacher, to be good at administering a school or anything. That's all it was.

That's 30 years ago. So that's what happened, Scott. And so then through the 90s, the 2000s, 2010, they're teaching that to the children and things are slowly drifting. But because America has been so blessed for so long, and we associate financial blessing with real blessing, which it's not always the case, we thought everything's fine. I've got savings, I've got a nice car, I've got a nice home.

I think the kids will be all right, they're just going through a hard time, they've learned some things, but they'll turn out all right. And so we're under that illusion. But now, as we see the mask coming off, even the Democratic Party, I mean, they're not playing any games anymore. They are a hundred percent in line with all of these Marxist groups and they're doing whatever they are told to do by those groups. So they're in fear of them and respect of them.

Where all their policies Biden's talking about, though he didn't come up with those policies. I know because I read all the websites of Black Lives Matter, Antifa's, and Students for a Democratic Society, and Americans for Progress, and all these Marxist groups. And I see, wait a minute, Everything they were talking about over the last 10 years is now being put forward at the level of the President of the United States. That's how successful they've been. So that's where we are today.

We're waking up to realize almost half of the people in our country have been brainwashed to think, like you were saying, that these ideas are good and right and fair and just. It's the Christian thing to do because they're so biblically illiterate. As you know, Scott, that's why he wrote that book that goes through the entire Bible that's wonderful for families to go through together so you know what God said. You don't just think you know what God said. But that's what's happened.

No Bible's hardly been put into the last couple generations. They get to college, the experts tell us, Bible, what are you talking about here? And they open them up to their new ideas so we have to get this ideas have consequences and that's what we're seeing that's what's on the streets today That's the consequences of allowing Marxist philosophies and anti-God ideology to be taught to our children. That's the fruit of it every time. And Proverbs tells us that there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death.

Amen. Okay, so Curtis, you know, in the time that remains, let's talk about what do we do. You know, what do we do in our churches? What do we do in our families? What's the message?

Well, the message is we have to be teaching and training our children the lies behind these ideas. When I was a young man, 12 years old, it's funny how God prepares you way ahead of time for what he's gonna have you do way later in life. My dad had me read a book called You Can Trust the Communist to Be Communists by Dr. Fred Schwartz. He was a medical doctor from Australia.

He'd come to America in the 50s and noticed, he noticed the Marxist revolution then. He was so perceptive of Marxist ideology, he goes, you guys are losing your country. He quit his medical practice, he moved to America, and the rest of his life He spent his time writing books and giving speeches all over America of what was happening to our country. He was a godly Christian man. And I read this book when I was 12 years old, and it outlines the entire agenda of how they do what they do.

Well, this, I've reprinted it. That's something available on my website. But it's just so important, it's so vital. Because if we don't understand our enemy, we will be so easily deceived by whatever they say. And we won't know the truth of it.

So we've got to teach our children this. We need to teach them a Christian biblical worldview, but we also need to teach them a Marxist Leninist worldview so they understand. That's what my father did all growing up at Summit Ministries in Colorado for 27 summers. He taught the young people all the different main worldviews of the different ideologies of the world. So when you heard something you go, oh that guy's a Marxist or oh that guy's a cosmic humanist.

So you would understand. Understanding the times by Dr. David Noble is still a fantastic source to go through with your children so they understand what people believe so when someone's talking you know where they're coming from whether they know it or not and many today are useful idiots they don't even know they're Marxist but they're preaching Marxist ideology and so that's that's a key thing and then then getting them excited about the job we have as Christians to expose lies and expel the darkness by shining our lights on it. And so it should be an encouraging thing. There's no greater time young people to be alive right now.

For such a time as this, God had you born. And so don't think, oh, what's happening? No, no, you're gonna have the most meaningful, wonderful life, it won't be an easy life, but it'll be a wonderful life standing for the truth. So you need to know what's going on. And you need to be listening to your parents and you need to be absorbing this stuff so you're prepared with the ammo you need to go out and say no that's a lie and I'll tell you why that's a lie here's why here's what gets on me more than anything just my in my heart is black lives matter I mean what a noble sounding movement you just oh but as you dig in you see, oh, Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization, but it's not about helping the black community, it's about using the black community.

And that should make anyone that loves justice and what is right and loves the black community incredibly angry. These people are using them again. And we've got to stop it, we've got to expose it, and we've got to help people see the truth. So that's one of the key things we can do is be excited about being offensively on God's side standing for the truth because he is the truth. And so that we're not even tempted to be playing footsies with the world or caught up in all whatever the latest little things are, we're like, no, no, I've got a mission.

I'm standing for the truth. I'm proclaiming the truth. I'm sharing the gospel. I'm standing against evil and I'm going to do it till the day I die. And I'm just telling you, young people, read Dietrich Bonhoeffer's autobiography and Cory Ten Boom and all these great Christians in history.

The reason why they're our heroes is because they had a hard life, but they stood for what is right, even when it cost them their life. And because of that, they're our heroes today and they should be, because they were noble and willing to stand up for God regardless of the cost. And that's what we are preparing you to do. If you have been homeschooled, God has prepared you to do this. You've been separated from this foolishness long enough to know what is truth and what is error and where you should be going.

Do it! And it's exciting to me. And I think it's why God allowed homeschooling to sweep through the cracks in the early 80s is because he had a plan for the homeschool movement. Curtis, who are the best, the most effective voices today who are pushing back on Marxist ideologies, the either organizations or churches or church leaders who are doing a really good job of articulating things we should embrace? Well, these aren't church leaders, but some good sources.

The Epic Times. It's not a Christian publication. They are from Red China, And that is the most powerful thing I've seen recently. It's a newspaper, it comes out once a week, and then they also send you emails. But they understand communism, so they understand the enemy.

They're the best ones to get that type of information from. Here's what they're doing, here's how they are doing it, to have the truth on your side. Unfortunately, I wish I could tell you of a great pastor or someone standing up, they're not for the most part. Not on the national level at least. They're all capitulating to this.

The Southern Baptist Convention, they're all starting to bow down to Black Lives Matter and to the social justice movement, which was started in the 1890s by Dr. Walter Rosenbush, who was a member of the Fabian Socialist Society, who only had one goal, to socialize the world. It just, on and on I could go with these things, but it's, that's a great one. The New American is a magazine that is from a Christian perspective. It comes out once a month, but they cover a particular topic in such detail.

If you just read that one magazine, whether it's on vaccinations or school, what's going on in the schools, you're an expert. So I found that's a very useful tool too, because I read them like, okay, I really get that, because they focus the whole issue just on one topic. And then there's lots of other great things coming and going that I see that have the truth. But unfortunately, that's why I'm doing what I'm doing because I don't see a lot of big things doing this. We've just started Agenda Weekly where I'm every week digesting what happened that week and how it affects the agenda because I realized people don't have a source to go to.

Where do we find out what's going on? So that's something we just started last Saturday was our first episode but we've got to know what's going on and to prepare ourselves for battle but also not to be deceived. Amen. Hey, we're so grateful for what you're doing. Hey, Could you do one of your broadcasts on LeBron James Nike, the NBA in China?

How about that? That would be a good one. We don't always understand what's really going on with what's happening with our athletes in America, but there are reasons for sure. I appreciate you bringing up this matter of my book, A Journey Through the Bible. The best thing you can do for your children is teach them the Word of God, all of the words of God, from Genesis to Revelation.

And if you haven't seen that book, I think it's a very helpful tool. It's really designed for fathers to read through the Bible with their children to help them understand what the Word of God says. It's written kind of for a really busy father to give them a quick summary of what the book is all about, and it just kind of leads you through the Bible. But hey, click on Curtis's podcast. I think that'd be very helpful.

I think your suggestions are really, really helpful, Curtis. We're just so thankful for you. So I guess that's about it. Okay, one last thing. So let's say you have a 10-year-old child, and let's just pretend I'm your 10-year-old child, And you're going to tell me how to think regarding this Marxist revolution in one minute.

Son, there are people that use deceit to trick you into doing what they want you to do, but it is not to help you, it's to use you. It's exactly what Satan does when he tempts you into sin. He doesn't want you to come into sin because you're going to have a good time. He wants you to come into sin so he can use you and destroy you and your testimony and your influence. It's the exact age-old thing that's been going on since the Garden of Eden.

We have to be, understand the times and have discernment to be able to tell those that are telling lies and those that are telling the truth. And I hope you will listen to me as I try to teach you to follow the truth. Amen. Curtis, thank you so much. Hey, thanks for joining us at Church and Family Life.

We'll see you next Monday. We're going to launch another podcast that we pray will really be helpful to establish the principle that Scripture is sufficient for Church and Family Life. Thank you so much, Curtis. God bless you and all your work. You're welcome.

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