[Alex Murphy]

The secular left in America idealizes the anti-God states that inhabit Western Europe and Canada. These areas have effectively become the most "God absent" places on Earth – and the progressives in America look up to them as "enlightened." These societies have seen corresponding drops in commitment to personal faith in God with a rise in leftist-progressive-radical ideologies, government dependency and an inability to judge good from evil in foreign affairs.

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"...These areas have effectively become the most "God absent" places on Earth..."

And beyond. When Apollo 8 went on man's first flight to the moon, the crew read the first passages from Genisis. Before they left, they were asked to make an important and memorable comment from lunar orbit. Frank Borman went to a friend and he suggested the reading. It took him "10 seconds" to agree. He then asked Jim Lovell and Bill Anders about it and they agreed. After their return, the Godless ACLU slapped them and NASA with a lawsuit over the telecast. Borman said, that in effect, the ACLU could go to hell. They would have read it again under similar conditions. The reading is still one of the most memorable events in all of human spaceflight history. BTW, the lawsuit went nowhere.