Social engineering operates through multiple channels. Governments direct grant funding to researchers whose studies supply scientific justification for regulations advancing a centralized, socialist framework, with peer review lending false credibility while citizens bear the costs through taxation and inflated prices. Concentrated philanthropic wealth from figures such as George Soros funds multiculturalism, expansive government, LGBTQ advocacy, and progressive infrastructure, replicating the precedent in which Joseph, under divine direction, consolidated Egyptian land, livestock, and autonomy under Pharaoh through one-fifth taxation and urban relocation. This same sovereign oversight governs contemporary shifts for His glory. The environmental movement frames capitalism as destructive, exploiting the human desire to feel virtuous, and reshapes societal norms rather than securing measurable ecological gains, ignoring market-driven efficiency's proven results.

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The University Grant System Fosters Social Change

Commentary by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)

Governments engineer social change by directing funds through the university grant system to researchers whose work is expected to align with official priorities. Selected investigators receive payment to produce studies that supply apparent scientific justification for new regulations, rules, and statutes. Peer review functions mainly as a promotional device that lends an air of credibility to these findings, enabling officials to persuade the public to accept alterations that advance a centralized, socialist framework. The resulting body of research reinforces existing ideological commitments rather than exploring independent questions. Examples include large grants for experiments on hamster aggression, undergraduate drinking patterns, astronaut meal preparation, bubble formation, historical stuttering induction in children, simulated prison dynamics, links between cat bites and depression, early bird feather coloration, and phosphorescent animals created through genetic insertion. Medical investigations have examined bacterial transfer during handshakes and the rapid spread of tracer viruses across office surfaces. Such projects omit any reference to the protective capacity of healthy immune systems. The costs are ultimately borne by citizens, first through direct taxation and again through elevated prices for goods and services once corporations incorporate their tax obligations into product pricing. In this manner the studies equip authorities with tools to modify longstanding customs and behaviors, positioning funded researchers as agents who systematically undermine established cultural patterns.

The Remaking of America

Commentary by Mark Schindler

The concentration of unprecedented philanthropic resources in the hands of figures such as George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, along with aligned donors in technology, entertainment, and finance, directs billions toward initiatives that promote multiculturalism, active government, LGBTQ advocacy, environmental causes, and Democratic political infrastructure. This funding flows disproportionately from new-economy wealth centered in cosmopolitan centers, where super-educated professionals apply liberal norms absorbed through elite universities and preparatory schools that emphasize global citizenship and sustainability. The resulting transfer of resources and ideas steadily displaces older industrial fortunes and rural conservative alignments, expanding progressive organizations, think tanks, and electoral influence while heirs of accumulated capital channel further support into the same networks. These patterns replicate the scriptural precedent in which Joseph, acting under divine direction, consolidated all Egyptian land, livestock, and personal autonomy into centralized control under Pharaoh, establishing a legal framework of one-fifth taxation and urban relocation that endured for generations. The same sovereign oversight that engineered that societal restructuring centuries before the Exodus continues to govern contemporary shifts, ensuring that every redistribution of wealth and power serves an ultimate purpose of glory rather than human design.

An Environmental Irony

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The environmental movement advances its agenda by framing capitalism as inherently destructive to the planet, thereby using emotional appeals about pollution, resource depletion, and waste to pressure individuals into adopting prescribed behaviors such as recycling. These efforts function as social engineering by conditioning people to view certain actions as socially responsible duties that benefit the community, even when the practices prove more costly, energy-intensive, and polluting than alternatives like direct disposal. The approach deliberately shifts focus away from actual environmental outcomes toward the modification of personal conduct to fit an ideological framework, exploiting the human desire to feel virtuous while disregarding data showing that wealthier nations with economic freedom achieve cleaner air, water, and land through market-driven efficiency and innovation. Capitalism rewards reduced waste and improved resource use without external mandates, and historical patterns confirm that pollution declines accelerate once per capita income surpasses certain thresholds, all before regulatory interventions. By contrast, the movement's tactics ignore these dynamics and instead promote restraint on consumption and production to enforce behavioral conformity, revealing that its core purpose lies in reshaping societal norms rather than securing measurable ecological gains.

Where Is Cancel Culture Headed?

'WorldWatch' by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The political and cultural Left has allied with giant tech corporations to sideline people and institutions who do not espouse the 'right' ideas and beliefs.

Where Are the Children?

Sermon by Ronny H. Graham

Malachi 4:5-6 predicts a horrible curse if the hearts of the fathers are not turned to the children and the hearts of the children turned to their fathers.

Deceiving the American Public

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Although previously cohabiting and homosexuality were viewed with repulsion, political correctness has coerced society to look upon these as normal.

Today's Christianity (Part Two): Southern Christianity Moves North

'Prophecy Watch' by Charles Whitaker

Contrary to the intention to marginalize Christianity through the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, it instead gave rise to a new strain of conservative Christianity.

Is Education the Answer? (Part 1)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Educating narrowly in technical skills, without giving attention to the moral dimension, does not prepare one adequately for life.

The World (Part 2)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

Our intimate fellowship should not be with the world, but be concentrated upon God and those who have made the Covenant, loving them as we would ourselves.

Honor Before Love

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

Agape love will not occur unless we first learn to honor, esteem, and cherish God and the preciousness of Christ's sacrifice for us.