"I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining.
"I believe in love, even though I don't feel it.
"I believe in God, even when he is silent."
-Anonymous poem scratched on an Auschwitz wall by a victim of the Holocaust.
Posted on 03/15/2017 12:51:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Session #1 of "The Silencing of God" seminar introduces the sinister attempt to expunge manifestations of God, Christ, and the Bible from American life--in direct and stark contradiction to the original intentions of the Founders and Framers.
The United States of America is undergoing swift transition as the forces of “political correctness” wage a vociferous culture war. Activist judges, secularist educators, morally bankrupt entertainers, and liberal politicians have teamed up to sell a sanitized version of America’s past. Their objective? To expunge every manifestation of God, Christ, and the Bible from American life. What has been the result of their intolerant, relentless assault on the traditional American values that lifted the U.S. to its unprecedented prominence among the nations of human history? The moral and spiritual underpinnings of American civilization are collapsing.
But America’s intimate connection to Christianity from the very beginning was embedded deeply in our public life. Though for 50 years these sinister forces have steadily chipped away at America’s now crumbling foundations, many indications of our nation’s Christian heritage remain. The historical evidence is voluminous and decisive: the Founders of the American Republic intended the political institutions that they established to be based upon and rooted in the moral principles of the Christian religion.
How can a nation that has scaled such heights and viewed such vistas stray so far from its original moorings? The Silencing of God Seminar issues a stirring plea to the nation to return from the moral and spiritual depths to which she has plummeted, and to reaffirm the biblical values that are being systematically stripped from public life. Recommendations are suggested on what Christians can do to save our nation from moral destruction.
View session 1 on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSIp1qFqdZ4
Go to http://www.apologeticspress.org/ for more material, contact information, and ordering information
God is never silenced. He is, remember, “Word of Life.” It is pure deception to believe otherwise
You might want to listen to this series.
You are certainly correct as to the attack upon Christ. I am old enough to remember when each morning we said prayer. The prayers were in a public school and were rotated among the pupils. Soon the prayer was stopped then we were released to the church down the street from our elementary school. Release time was stopped. People do not take a close look at those behind the secularization of our society.
i’ll give it a shot when i get time Jim. Hope you’re doing ok.
Funny seeing you post even quasi-religious posts without banning a few Calvinists, Mormons, Catholics...etc. (fondly remembering those days)
All the more reason to look this up when i get a chance.
Thanks for the heads up.
God is silenced in the hearts of those who live on the edge of despair like those who have been unemployed for years and have prayed for a job. Faith carries one only so far and is then replaced by despair when prayers are not answered. Despair sets in when God stops talking and for too many He has been silent for too long and religion will appear as being a security blanket that brings no defense against the horrors of life.
Those who continue to have faith, be thankful but don’t flaunt it.
God is silenced in the hearts of those who live on the edge of despair like those who have been unemployed for years and have prayed for a job. Faith carries one only so far and is then replaced by despair when prayers are not answered. Despair sets in when God stops talking and for too many He has been silent for too long and religion will appear as being a security blanket that brings no defense against the horrors of life.
Those who continue to have faith, be thankful but don’t flaunt it.
Thank you Jim.
I’ve started building a data-bank of decent God fearing videos.
Just about anything clear headed from a religions standpoint is subject to ACLU focus these days. Who knows how long it will be around.
I appreciate you bringing this serious to our attention.
It’s certainly timely.
The ACLU gets no push-back either.
It’s the enemy of our nation and our religion. (Christianity)
bump
Don’t confuse faith with religion.
God is never silent. We may not always hear Him, but God never stops talking. We may stop listening though
Thanks for posting this.
We will not win this nation back unless we are able to articulate these truths to the next generation.
It can not just be about election strategies and legal proceedings. Hearts and minds must be won.
"I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining.
"I believe in love, even though I don't feel it.
"I believe in God, even when he is silent."
-Anonymous poem scratched on an Auschwitz wall by a victim of the Holocaust.
bkmk
How do you know?
I’ve never seen that poem before. I wish I could put into words how it makes me feel. I’ve already printed it to carry in my wallet. My wallet is where I have all the little bits of wisdom I’ve collected throughout the years.
While younger people are almost always more liberal than older folks, this study says that the millenial generation is much, much further left and that even if they move more conservative as they get older, it is doubtful they will ever be as conservative as our generation. The work of the Fabian socialists from the 60s and 70s is bearing much fruit in each succeeding generation. We need an all out revival very very badly.
SURVEY DETAILS HOW THE CORE BELIEFS AND BEHAVIORS OF MILLENNIALS COMPARE TO THOSE OF OTHER ADULTS
Mar 15, 2017
Millennials are becoming an increasingly important generation in American life. As the segment reaches its young adult years, it represents the nation’s primary birthing generation; a large wave of newcomers to the workforce; the dominant niche of newlyweds; and the fastest growing constituency of newly eligible or registered voters. As they form new households or establish themselves as consumers they are also becoming a highly desired target for marketers and active participants in the real estate market.
But Millennials also represent one of the most spiritually challenging generations to reach adulthood in the past century. While the Baby Boom generation broke the mold of faith traditions and preferences some 50 years ago, Millennials are raising a new set of challenges to Christianity and to a nation whose morals and values have long reflected biblical principles.
Worldview Differentiation
The Worldview Measurement Project, conducted by the American Culture and Faith Institute, reveals that Millennials are, by far, the generation least likely to possess a biblical worldview. While 16% of those in the Boomer and Builder generations possess such an outlook, and just 7% of Baby Busters have a biblical worldview, only one-quarter as many Millennials have a biblical worldview – just 4%!
This startling distinction in their choice of worldview is reflected in various indicators of their lifestyle. For instance:
Only 59% of Millennials consider themselves to be Christian. That compares to 72% of adults from older generations
Less than two out of every ten adults 30 or older (18%) claims to be in the atheist-agnostic-none faith preference category. Nearly three out of every ten Millennials embrace that category (28%)
One out of every three older adults (33%) is a born again Christian, stating that they will experience eternity in Heaven with God after their death on earth only because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. Far fewer Millennials (20%) share that expectation
A minority of adults 30 or older (43%) supports same-sex marriage. However, nearly two-thirds of those under 30 (65%) support it
Conservatives outnumber liberals by a 2:1 margin among adults 30 or older (28% versus 12%). Yet, the opposite is true among Millennials: only 12% are conservative while 26% are liberal
Millennials are the generation most likely to prefer socialism over capitalism (44% compared to 35% among older adults)
While only 6% of adults 30 or older claim to be in the LGBT community, two-and-a-half times as many (15%) adopt that label among Millennials
Major Differences in Beliefs
Of the 20 questions in the belief section of the Worldview Measurement Project, Millennials were statistically different from other adults on 12 of those indicators. There was only one measure on which Millennials were more likely than other US adults to have a biblical perspective: they are less likely to believe that all people are basically good. However, even on that measure, a majority of the adults under 30 years of age (59%) held a belief that conflicts with the biblical view.
Overall, the survey discovered that Millennials are less likely than older adults to have a biblical view on 19 of the 20 beliefs evaluated. The largest gaps between the beliefs of older adults and those of Millennials related to the nature of God; the existence of absolute moral truth; concepts concerning evil; and the personal importance of faith.
Substantial Distinctions in Behavior
The Worldview Measurement Project included 20 questions related to biblical behavior. The survey results noted that Millennials were statistically different from other adults on 14 of those indicators. There were three measures on which Millennials were more likely than other US adults to have a biblical perspective: personal interest in the well-being of others, choosing service over personal progress, and sharing their religious beliefs with people who believe differently.
In total, Millennials emerged as less likely than older adults to have a biblical view on 11 of the 20 behaviors evaluated.
The largest gaps between the beliefs of older adults and those held by Millennials – differences of 15 percentage points or more – concerned the moral acceptability of cheating on taxes, using non-prescription drugs for recreational purposes, and getting married to someone of the same sex; and being less likely to worship God other than within a church service.
Patterns and Probabilities
George Barna, the Executive Director of the American Culture and Faith Institute, noted that younger adults have historically held less conservative values than their elders. “The question that remains is how much the views of Millennials will eventually move to the right on the ideological continuum. The challenge to conservatives is that the current views of Millennials are so far to the left-of-center that even a typical amount of repositioning over time will leave the youngest generation considerably more liberal than desired, and more distant from traditional norms than has been the case during our lifetime.”
Asked how likely it is that Millennials will eventually embrace a biblical worldview, Barna demurred. “Remember, a person’s worldview is typically developed between the ages of about 18 months and 13 years,” the social scientist explained. “There is usually very little movement in a worldview after that point. You could say with confidence that the worldview a person possesses at age 13 is probably the worldview they will die with. Unless pre-existing patterns radically change, we are not likely to ever see the Millennial generation reach even ten percent who have a biblical worldview.”
Barna also identified one of the most important implications of this situation. “Parents are one of the most important influences on the worldview of their children, and Millennials are entering their prime childbearing years. But because 24 of every 25 Millennials lack a biblical worldview today, the probability of them transmitting such to their children is extremely low. You cannot give what you don’t have. In other words, if today’s children are going to eventually embrace a biblical worldview, people with such a perspective must exert substantial influence on the nation’s children to supply what their parents are unable to give them. The United States goes to great lengths to assist in the economic welfare of millions of people. It appears that we now need those who possess a biblical worldview to step in and impact the spiritual well-being of our future adults as well.”
The survey is part of the Worldview Measurement Project, which will be conducted every February to assess the state of America’s worldview. The current study is the first in that project and will be used as a benchmark for comparison in future years.
Today I cleared the time to listen to this. I hope there is a transcript out there, because these facts of our founding have been collected and pointed so specifically at our current dilemma by Dr. Miller’s scholarship here.
Thank you for posting this link, Jim.
When you have the time, please listen to this exceptional summary of the Christian convictions of our Founders, and how they created the United States with the specific intent of upholding Christian principles. They believed a free republic and a free people were not possible without Christianity. It was posted by our own dear Founder of FR.
Following up to those to whom I posted just above, JimRob has also posted a link to this written essay on America’s Christian founding by Dr. Miller:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3535054/posts
Thanks for the ping! :-)
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