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When the paganization of America is reported in the New York Times, one
begins to wonder if one needs a new pair of reading glasses.
On Oct. 6, 2006, Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times said that the number
of Evangelical Christian teenagers could be declining rapidly from 35
percent among baby boomers to 4 percent among today's teenagers, "if current
trends continue." The Times quoted many young Christians who had trouble
keeping the faith in the midst of peer pressure, consumerism, cynicism, and
lust inflamed by the mass media of entertainment.
In 1950, 70 percent of all British children had a working knowledge of the
Bible. Now, it's about 4 percent. The children without a working knowledge
of the Bible no longer understand the biblical perspective, Thou shalt not
steal, lie, lust, etc., and are susceptible to the winds of every crazy
belief system that comes along.
According to the Barna Research Group, nine percent of Americans are
Bible-believing Evangelical Christians and 36 percent of Americans are
Born-Again Christians. Barna also reports that 49 percent of Americans born
between 1946 and 1964 attend church on a given Sunday, but only 43 percent
of Americans born between 1965 and 1983 and 33 percent of Americans born
between 1984 and 2002 do that.
This is a serious problem.
If the United States becomes as Post-Christian as Britain and Europe, then
the world will become a ripe plum ready to fall under the hands of Islam, a
religion that heretofore has only advanced by the sword. People who don't
believe in something will believe in anything.
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/secure/cwnetwork/article.php?ArticleID=1173
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For
men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more
than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power
thereof: from such turn away" - 2 Timothy 3:1-5.]
begins to wonder if one needs a new pair of reading glasses.
On Oct. 6, 2006, Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times said that the number
of Evangelical Christian teenagers could be declining rapidly from 35
percent among baby boomers to 4 percent among today's teenagers, "if current
trends continue." The Times quoted many young Christians who had trouble
keeping the faith in the midst of peer pressure, consumerism, cynicism, and
lust inflamed by the mass media of entertainment.
In 1950, 70 percent of all British children had a working knowledge of the
Bible. Now, it's about 4 percent. The children without a working knowledge
of the Bible no longer understand the biblical perspective, Thou shalt not
steal, lie, lust, etc., and are susceptible to the winds of every crazy
belief system that comes along.
According to the Barna Research Group, nine percent of Americans are
Bible-believing Evangelical Christians and 36 percent of Americans are
Born-Again Christians. Barna also reports that 49 percent of Americans born
between 1946 and 1964 attend church on a given Sunday, but only 43 percent
of Americans born between 1965 and 1983 and 33 percent of Americans born
between 1984 and 2002 do that.
This is a serious problem.
If the United States becomes as Post-Christian as Britain and Europe, then
the world will become a ripe plum ready to fall under the hands of Islam, a
religion that heretofore has only advanced by the sword. People who don't
believe in something will believe in anything.
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/secure/cwnetwork/article.php?ArticleID=1173
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For
men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more
than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power
thereof: from such turn away" - 2 Timothy 3:1-5.]
