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Look at Barna statistics….
“Ninety one percent of all born again Christians do not have a Biblical worldview. As of 2003, the United States has about 210 million adults. About 80 million are born again Christians. Roughly 7 million have a Biblical worldview. That is just one out of every 30 adults in this nation.”
Standing in a garage doesn't make you a car anymore than sitting in church doesnt make one a Christian either. We have become a secular nation. I believe like Barna states in most of his polls that many are Christian for social reasons and in name only. They do not live by a Christian worldview.
I think we live in a time defined not by our morals but by our fascination with obscenity. You never hear good things on the news, and rarely a day goes by that the headlines are not about a sex scandal or rape, abuse, kidnapping, or some other sordid event around the country. We are a sexually sick nation. And this war over sex is now a tool being used to collapse moral foundations of major public institutions like the federal justice system, the educational system.
The United States Census in 2000 showed that “2 parent families now represent less than 25% of ALL households in America, down from 45% in 1960.
Over the same 40 year period the percentage of single-parent families tripled, the divorce rate doubled, the percentage of people getting married all dropped lower than ever before.
Cohabitation increased 1000% and the rate of illegitimacy rose by 500%.
Abortions are performed on 80% who are not married.”
Those who can’t see or deny watching the deteriorating moral climate of America live on some other planet. If you aren’t alarmed at the increases of kids killing kids, drug use, promiscuity, infidelity, homosexuality, prostitution, pornography, and the worst abortion………then I do not know what else to say. It’s all there. These are all signs of a decaying society.
Ask any teenager today what morals are, and I think you would be saddened to what their answer would be if any of them knew what the word "moral" meant.
These are taken taken from Bill Bennett’s INDEX OF LEADING CULTURAL INDICATORS; AMERICAN SOCIETY AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
1. Violent crime up 467% in 40 years
2. The number of state and federal prisoners up 463% in 40 years
3. Out of wedlock births up 461% in 40 years
4. The number of children living in single parent homes up threefold
5. Out of wedlock births account for 32% of all births nationally-highest rate Washington DC at 64% and lowest rate Utah at 17%\
6. 26% of ALL pregnancies aborted
7. Gonorrhea infection rates of 150 per 100,000
Another study done by Rutgers University called “THE STATE OF OUR UNIONS:THE SOCIAL HEALTH OF MARRIAGE IN AMERICA”, 1999
“Key social indicators suggest that marriage in America is weakening. Americans have been less likely to marry and more likely to divorce. Marriages are also less happy. They found that 54.6 % of girls and 62% of boys felt that cohabitation was a good idea and that 50% of teens believe that out of wedlock childbearing is now a worthwhile lifestyle.”
They suggest that in 100 years Americans more than likely will marry 4 times and have extramarital affairs with NO public censure. This will be looked at as a conscious evolutionary process.
People will look back like we are today wondering how we let things get so out of control. How did we succumb to the disease of secular humanism?
George Washington so wisely warned, "... Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle."
Boy he was right.
If ya play by mans rules you lose, but if you play by Gods your never alone, He stands with you.
There is much to say about having a godly worldview and living a moral life.
Even though America is no longer a moral place………we who choose to follow God can’t lose site of what and how He tells us to live.
“Ninety one percent of all born again Christians do not have a Biblical worldview. As of 2003, the United States has about 210 million adults. About 80 million are born again Christians. Roughly 7 million have a Biblical worldview. That is just one out of every 30 adults in this nation.”
Standing in a garage doesn't make you a car anymore than sitting in church doesnt make one a Christian either. We have become a secular nation. I believe like Barna states in most of his polls that many are Christian for social reasons and in name only. They do not live by a Christian worldview.
I think we live in a time defined not by our morals but by our fascination with obscenity. You never hear good things on the news, and rarely a day goes by that the headlines are not about a sex scandal or rape, abuse, kidnapping, or some other sordid event around the country. We are a sexually sick nation. And this war over sex is now a tool being used to collapse moral foundations of major public institutions like the federal justice system, the educational system.
The United States Census in 2000 showed that “2 parent families now represent less than 25% of ALL households in America, down from 45% in 1960.
Over the same 40 year period the percentage of single-parent families tripled, the divorce rate doubled, the percentage of people getting married all dropped lower than ever before.
Cohabitation increased 1000% and the rate of illegitimacy rose by 500%.
Abortions are performed on 80% who are not married.”
Those who can’t see or deny watching the deteriorating moral climate of America live on some other planet. If you aren’t alarmed at the increases of kids killing kids, drug use, promiscuity, infidelity, homosexuality, prostitution, pornography, and the worst abortion………then I do not know what else to say. It’s all there. These are all signs of a decaying society.
Ask any teenager today what morals are, and I think you would be saddened to what their answer would be if any of them knew what the word "moral" meant.
These are taken taken from Bill Bennett’s INDEX OF LEADING CULTURAL INDICATORS; AMERICAN SOCIETY AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
1. Violent crime up 467% in 40 years
2. The number of state and federal prisoners up 463% in 40 years
3. Out of wedlock births up 461% in 40 years
4. The number of children living in single parent homes up threefold
5. Out of wedlock births account for 32% of all births nationally-highest rate Washington DC at 64% and lowest rate Utah at 17%\
6. 26% of ALL pregnancies aborted
7. Gonorrhea infection rates of 150 per 100,000
Another study done by Rutgers University called “THE STATE OF OUR UNIONS:THE SOCIAL HEALTH OF MARRIAGE IN AMERICA”, 1999
“Key social indicators suggest that marriage in America is weakening. Americans have been less likely to marry and more likely to divorce. Marriages are also less happy. They found that 54.6 % of girls and 62% of boys felt that cohabitation was a good idea and that 50% of teens believe that out of wedlock childbearing is now a worthwhile lifestyle.”
They suggest that in 100 years Americans more than likely will marry 4 times and have extramarital affairs with NO public censure. This will be looked at as a conscious evolutionary process.
People will look back like we are today wondering how we let things get so out of control. How did we succumb to the disease of secular humanism?
George Washington so wisely warned, "... Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle."
Boy he was right.
If ya play by mans rules you lose, but if you play by Gods your never alone, He stands with you.
There is much to say about having a godly worldview and living a moral life.
Even though America is no longer a moral place………we who choose to follow God can’t lose site of what and how He tells us to live.