[Vermont Lt]

I disagree with the headline.

I don’t think people have forgotten God. The average American still goes to Church and they still respect others.

What HAS lost control is the constant bombardment of the media which is created to demonstrate extremes. They are in business to evoke a response.

Spend a few days without the TV or Internet and just interact with people. There are some wonderful folks out there. You just never hear about them anymore.

[Salvavida]

The letter of James is a great letter to help men get back on track to worshiping God.

[HangnJudge]

From The Gods of the Copybook Headings
Kipling

...On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.” ,,,

[budj]

It ain’t like we haven’t been warned:

Leviticus 26:27-28
‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.

2 Chronicles 36:16
but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, until there was no remedy.

Zechariah 7:12
“They made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 1:16
“I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

...and on and on and on.

[Simon Green]

Religion does play a far less important role in the average person’s life in the Western world (particularly Europe) than it did a century ago. Speaking strictly on a personal level, I grew up with minimal exposure to religion, and was an agnostic by it adulthood and shortly thereafter an atheist (and remain so to this day).

I certainly wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the material progress of the last two centuries, as the article does. The average person on earth is far better off than they were 200 years ago by virtually any measure.

[Texas Fossil]

Thank you for posting.

I’m neither Russian or Orthodox. (am Baptist, wherever that places me.)

But Solzhenitsyn was a great man and thinker. He was very perceptive and this was spot on when written and still today.

[353FMG]

Mankind has given up on God. They feel isolated.