@blixberrie Did you know college campuses are gun-free zones?? Weird how that didn’t work there and wouldn’t anywhere else in the nation because criminals don’t follow rules…kinda like how murdering someone is also wrong
So so sorry for everything you had to go through. If anything, it made me look up to you even more that you have now chosen to speak out and get the proper help. Please don’t ever think you are incapable of being a good role model. Seems like you’re well on your way to me. ❤️
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Logically — you’d assume they would just let him run, right?
Easy win right?
Beat him again right?
Now you see
As we look around at the shambles of Western civilization, a question seems to be on everyone’s mind: What happened?
Many people, Christian and non-Christian, are asking that question, “What happened?” Why do they ask this question? In the USA, in the 1700’s, 70-80% of. The population attended church. But by 2010, 56% of what’s called the greatest generation (those born before 1928) attended church, but now only about 18% of millennials do (“Religion Among the Millennials,” Pew Forum, February 2010). In 2021, Generation Z church attendance was down to less than 9%.
In Britain, total church attendance in 2015 was down to 5% of the population (“Christianity in the UK,” Faith Survey, August 13, 2018). The percentage of millennials and post-millennials that attend church is probably much less, considering that the younger generations are much more atheistic.
In Australia, total church attendance in 2011 was only 6% (Local Churches in Australia, NCLS, 2017; NCLS Church Life Pack Seminar Presentation, Sydney, 2016). We have seen the same trends across Europe, New Zealand, Canada—across the whole Western world.
Also, we can observe the changing worldview in these cultures from a more Christianized one (permeated with the Judeo-Christian ethic based on the bible) in the past to a very secularized/atheistic worldview of moral relativism in our present day. For instance, in America, 78% of the greatest generation believed same-sex relations were always wrong. However, in the millennial generation this was down to 43%, and it seems Generation Z is much less than that.
We see very similar statistics regarding same-sex relationships in Britain. And notably, in 1983, about 60% of those in Britain who claimed they had “no religion” (but they do have a religion—the religion of atheism/agnosticism) believed same-sex relationships were always or nearly always wrong. But by 2013, that figure was down to about 10% (“Attitudes Towards Gay Rights,” British Religion in Numbers, January 2017).
Similar changes have been observed in people’s attitude toward abortion, euthanasia, and many other issues. So many people ask the question, “What happened?”
Really the answer is simple but is missed even by many in the church. I assert these major reasons for this change:
So much of the church (and its leadership) has compromised God’s Word in Genesis, thus undermining the authority of the Word of God and undermining a Christian worldview.
Most church leaders and Christian academics have not taught generations how to develop a truly Christian worldview beginning with the foundation of Genesis and the rest of God’s Word.
The teaching of apologetics to combat the secular attacks of our day has been largely neglected in churches. After all, Genesis 1-11 is the foundation for everything!
80–85% of kids from churches have been indoctrinated by the secular education system to doubt and not believe the Word of God beginning in Genesis—but to believe the pagan religion of evolution as fact. Public schools have become by and large churches of atheism, imposing the atheistic worldview of moral relativism on generations of kids.
What happened in our Western is really nothing new. It’s the raging spiritual battle that began 6,000 years ago in a garden—a battle between two religions.
God instructed Adam to obey his Word:
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:16–17).
The devil successfully tempted Eve—and Adam followed her—to disobey God’s Word and be their own gods (to build their thinking on man’s word, Genesis 3:5):
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” . . . . But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:1–5).
Thus, the battle between God’s Word and man’s word ensued! This battle is seen all the way through Scripture (light/darkness, good/evil, for/against Christ, build house on rock/sand).
Much of the Western world’s worldview came out of the Bible. Therefore, most people believed that marriage was between one man and one woman, homosexual behavior was wrong, and there were only two genders of humans, male and female.
So what happened? The foundation for the dominant worldview of the West was changed.
Generations of kids, now particularly reflected in the younger generations (e.g., millennials and Generation Z), have been indoctrinated against the Bible to believe that man’s fallible word is the foundation for their thinking. So if there’s no absolute authority, then ultimately anything goes! The resulting moral relativism and the growing intolerance of Christianity is a sad reflection of this foundational change. We are seeing the symptoms of this foundational change in the cultural change from a predominant Judeo-Christian worldview to one permeated by moral relativism.
So to answer the question, what happened, the foundation for the dominant worldview of the West was changed, and as a result the worldview has changed from primarily a very Christianized worldview to a secular worldview!
Can the culture ever reverse direction and change back? Of course that’s always a possibility, but only through the power of God’s Word and the gospel to change lives so people will be committed to building their thinking on the Word of God. God’s Word and the saving gospel is the ultimate solution to this foundational change.
And regardless of whether the culture could reverse direction, we need to be on about the business of the King until He returns! God has entrusted resources to each of us, whether material resources, and/or talents (writing, speaking, music etc). We need to do our best to use what God has entrusted us with to reach as many people as we can with the truth of God’s Word and the gospel.
“Engage in business until I come” (Luke 19:13).
Just finished watching the new limited series “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” on Amazon Prime and am very curious to know what @AiG & @aigkenham think of the series and Bill Gothard’s teachings as it also features the Creation Museum twice throughout the series.
Nashville school shooting victims:
9 year old Evelyn Dieckhaus
9 year old Hallie Scruggs
9 year old William Kinney
61 year old Cynthia Peak
60 year old Katherine Koonce
61 year old Mike Hill
Six people were just murder at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, including 3 children, and that POS pretending to be president comes out and does a comedy routine about ice cream!
Is it possible for Pedo Peter to be a bigger scumbag?
how fucked up is this: three children were shot dead at a Christian school in Nashville today and it didn't even make one ripple in the news. our nation has lost its fucking way