I would think that a stable economy, career opportunities and marriage prospects are symptoms of a healthy society. The lack of those things tends to suggest an unhealthy society.
I recently read Latina women with degrees earn 70 percent less than White men with similar degrees. They are not doing mass suicide.
Any evidence at all of any "moral" decline in society. But, of course, it has to be non-anecdotal and otherwise credible.
I am not trying to be difficult but I am exceedingly skeptical you can support this claim. I am not suggesting it is not true; however, I think that one cannot disentangle all the factors involved such that you can credit the church (substantially) for all these good things.
Because this is a Spiritual battle. We're only going to reclaim our Society, when we reclaim the Christian ( read: virtuous) life.
I think you're really missing my point. You asked me what am I doing about the Church disappearing. We each are called to live the Christian life according to our capacity. That is how we each build up the Church. Each according our gifts; our virtues. Can you see how someone might be a little modest or embarrassed to list their own? I'm not calling for a physical revolution. The Church will only reappear when Faith reappears.
It was you who made certain claims about the contributions of the church. It is your responsibility to defend those claims with actual evidence. The book you cited may well support your claim. But a reasonable reader would want more than your say-so that this book supports your claims. And it is, as always, the responsibility of the claimant to support their claim.
It is generally credible, yes. Here are the specific sources for my claim about slavery:
You can do whatever you like. But let's be clear about one thing: a neutral, objective reader will be rightfully suspicious of your not providing actual evidence to support your claims. It is not unreasonable for someone like me to point this out.
The decline of Chriatianity predates the boomers. If anything, it's their parents that abandoned Biblical Christianity and passed onto their kids a mix of state worship and secularism. The boomers passed that, along with their continuation of their grandparents sexual revolution, onto their kids. Those kids are now middle aged and have no purpose in life and no access to the hope that the church should be offering them. To blame boomers though is ridiculous, the nation abandoned biblical Christianity nearly a century before they were born and the final death blows were dealt in the 1920's before they were even born. Boomers and those that follow are the products of an explicit post-christian society.
LoL. That book I suggested was something to get you started. My knowledge of Church history is based on thousands of dollars of investment and yrs of research. In addition to discussing and listening to knowledgeable people. I cannot be your professor of 2000 yrs of how Catholicism/Christianity preserved and shaped Art, Science, Infrastructure, and whatever else I mentioned to a fellow Catholic ( who should already know this stuff). It's taken a lifetime to know what I know. I'm 39 yrs old and have been studying since 14. You're either not being fair or you don't know what you're asking for.
