Grooming

Apparently for fifteen or so years, certain people have sounded a warning or alarm about so-called “grooming gangs” in England.  “Grooming” speaks of “sexual grooming,” essentially training children to accept rape or assault as a way of life.  They would become then ready facilitators for the predilections of adult perverts.

I had heard the term “grooming” before in years past to push boys toward a future in homosexuality.  They do not by nature want or desire that behavior, but through suggestion and promotion in propaganda style, they become increasingly more accepting.  Even the federal government talks about this activity in the first paragraph of a presentation:

To keep their conduct secret, perpetrators coerce and “groom.” That is, as sexual contact escalates, they methodically increase the attention and rewards they give to their targets (Robins, 2000). Grooming allows perpetrators to test their targets’ silence at each step. To nurture the relationship, perpetrators make the target feel “special” by, for example, brandishing gifts and/or spending extra time with the target in nonsexual ways, all in an effort to learn whether the target will keep silent (Robins, 2000).

Grooming Gang Scandal

The grooming gang scandal in England I had not heard until less than a week ago, and I was astounded and even shocked by the news.  In England it involves mainly adult immigrant males (they are not from England) repeatedly raping young white girls.  Apparently there is a racial component to it.  It is also socio-economic, because these girls are middle class or lower.

Since I first read about this scandal this last week, I have seen a figure from 10,000 to a million young girls. People actually do not know the number of victims, but I heard Jordan Peterson use the top number, a million.  The population of England is about 58 million, so this is an astounding figure.  How could a culture, a society, allow this to happen?  Why is there not more of an outrage?

The scandal reaches to the present Prime Minister of the UK, Keir Starmer.  He was the Director of Public Prosecutions in the Crown Prosecution Service when this criminal activity was rampantly occurring in England.  Starmer made a controversial decision not to prosecute certain cases due to perceived issues with victim credibility (this article might also get you up to speed).

Microcausation

As someone diagnoses such a horrific scandal, what is the cause of it?  This issue is so gigantic and so deplorable that it signals deep cultural decline that reaches even lower lows than ever.  That’s why I’m writing about it.  Elon Musk points to authorities who didn’t do enough or tried to cover it up.  I would call these types of explanations, microcausation.  They are a reason, but not the foundational reason.  The microcausation matters, but it isn’t the most significant.  The most significant are the macrocausation, which doesn’t change overnight.

The realm of microcausation points to many different causes.  The political pressure in England could cause the nation to deal with these.  A big voting bloc is angry about this situation.  It could even sink the career of Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister.

Leadership

The first and most obvious reason is a lack of courage from a leader.  I had not heard of this situation.  Maybe you hadn’t either.  How?  This is kept low profile.  Powerful leaders did not want it to become big in England.  The media was also complicit.  It reminds me of the Roman Catholic Church doing something similar with its priests and their massive number of sexual assaults of children.

Even as I write about Roman Catholicism, I believe the numbers of sexual problems like these are as great or greater in the public school system.  It just doesn’t get the attention, because the public schools hold more levers to cover these situations.  I’ve seen this first hand.

Absent Parent or Parents

I’m sure, like the United States, England is rife with single parent homes and absent fathers.  Even so, do fathers really have the divine right to protect their daughters, even though the state takes away that right.  Daughters go running out on their own and parents sit and allow it.  I remember a popular fundamentalist preacher in a family conference joking about this:  “Where are you going?”  Answer:  “Out.”  Where is “out”?  Especially Gen Z think “out” is an appropriate amount of freedom for girls.  “Just be careful!”

Part of feminism and women’s rights is the right that moms and girls claim not to listen to the father. They’re big and smart and don’t need to listen to almost anyone.  The government very often defends a girls right to become sexual early and then have a secret abortion.  They start them young on some kind of pregnancy prevention, anticipating their sexual activity.

This one is the closest to a macrocausation of the microcausations, the break down of the family, but it still is an outgrowth of something more fundamental.  Included in this reason is moms outside of the home, so they don’t know what’s happening either.  Sadly, some of the moms are at home attempting to self-medicate.  Or mom does her hobbies while the kids do who knows what.  The first time the mom gets upset is when she happens upon this months later.

Media and Multiculturalism

So the third microcause is the media covering for its political allies.  The opportunity for a story is there, but it is punted because it doesn’t help the correct people.  The media allows the victims to languish and perish because it doesn’t serve the right political motivation.

Fourth, there is a religious, ethnic, and immigration component that doesn’t harmonize with leftist values.  This fits into the leftist DEI agenda.  Related to this is multiculturalism, a comfort with perversity, and globalism.  White middle and lower class girls become victims of these corrupt viewpoints.

Islam

Fifth, England is 6.5% Moslem.  That might seem like a low percentage, but it is very high when it comes to an invasion of Islam.  Islam is not natural to England, but the country allowed this to occur because of its leaders warped views.  I’ve read that Islam needs only 25% of the population to take over a country.  Seventy-five percent of this 6.5% would be happy with Sharia Law taking over all of England.  The other twenty-five percent moderates capitulate like they do in most of the Moslem world.  The Moslem communities do not stop this behavior.

I still consider these five and several others (I could have written more) to be microcausation.  They are serious, but by far not the most serious.  In many ways, they are just a bandaid on what’s the most significant causation.

Macrocausation

A culture that allowed grooming gangs to operate almost unfettered in England also exists in the United States.  I see two major macro causes for the grooming gang scandal and these causes also are here in the United States.  The United States didn’t make a huge jump to transgender men dominating in women’s sports.  Somehow homosexual children are the coolest kids in school.  No one can or will criticize what’s happening.  It’s much more foundational than that.

Elimination of Objective Righteous Culture

One, the elimination of an objective righteous culture.  This is our Father’s world, but the culture is Satan’s.  He is the Prince of this world, and the churches capitulated on this long ago.  It’s easy to see all over.  So many examples exist.

There are some weak intermural skirmishes about the culture.  That’s it.  Generally, the skirmish is over who can get to the weakest possible position the fastest on cultural issues.  I’m talking about everything cultural:  music, dress, male and female roles, art, beauty, alcohol, appearance, lifestyle, recreation, entertainment, and more.  The grooming scandal is in the realm of a deteriorating, crumbling culture.  Hardly anyone will say anything about this in public, because that ship has sailed.

The culture will get worse.  It will still only get worse.  The culture will not get better.  It won’t and it can’t.  Not until there is an admission that there is such a thing as a Christian or godly culture, a country will keep going down.  New technology and inventions will not improve this.

Grooming Scandal a Cultural Issue

The grooming scandal is a cultural issue.  A nation could allow its little girls to be raped by men and do almost nothing about it, because very few are serious about the culture.  Look at this as a basic in England.  They allow men to rape young girls every day, but they arrest a woman praying silently in front of an abortion clinic.  That tells you the condition of the culture.

I could just leave that one macro cause and it would seem like enough, but it actually comes out of something that is even more fundamental.

Loss of Authority and Certainty of Scripture

Two, God’s Word has lost its authority and certainty to people.  The cultural issues go away, because people don’t think they can make applications of scripture to the culture.  Why?  If they’re going to do that, they have to be certain, and they’ve lost that certainty for many reasons.

The Bible is there for people as a kind of therapy.  It really can make you feel good, buoy you through bad times as you essentially live for yourself.  People overall don’t see the Bible as sure enough any more.  The seminaries training pastors go along with this.  Churches have lost it too.

Seventy-five years ago, almost all churches made application to cultural issues.  They were strong and dogmatic.  Preachers could and did apply the Bible.  Not long before that, almost everyone would agree on these cultural issues.

Non-Essential

So called preachers today turned the cultural issues into non-essentials.  This is not a hill to die on.  They  would say, keep it on the gospel, even though they’re also watering that down.

Much of this capitulation on truth also relates to pragmatism.  How can or will a church grow, while taking a stand on cultural issues?  People don’t want to hear it.  You’ve got to pick and choose your issues.  Today, you can still get away with saying a woman is a woman and a man is a man, and bury your stake right there.  That’s today’s culture warrior.  Be careful not to stray too far from that though.

The grooming gang scandal is shocking.  Don’t think it’s going to get better just because you can identify and maybe complain about the microcausation.  It will still get worse unless the priority is the macrocausation of such a scandal.