Posted on 07/13/2025 6:21:50 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
It’s no secret that over the past 60 years U.S. Christian apologists have witnessed a dramatic cultural sea change. In the past, we could assume two things: the general belief in reasonable objective truths, and a baseline cultural familiarity with what’s in the Bible. All that shifted with the appearance of Gen Z, which Barna Group has dubbed “the first truly ‘post-Christian’ generation.”
- Shifts in the Apologetics Landscape:
1. Students are asking questions about God at a younger age than before.
2. Nonbelievers now have equal access to young people.
3. There has been a move from objective to subjective approaches to faith.
- Emerging Trends and Issues:
• Increased secularism. Although atheists, agnostics and “nones” are still a minority in America, the share of these groups has risen substantially in the past few decades.
• Continued movement away from God’s design for sex, marriage and reproduction. In his monumental book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl Trueman asks how the following phrase became seemingly coherent and meaningful today: “I am a man trapped in a woman’s body.” He rightly notes that the sexual revolution, at its core, is a rethinking of what it means to be human…
• Expansion of transhumanism and artificial intelligence (AI). Transhumanism is essentially the idea that humans can (and should) develop beyond their existing mental and biological limitations through science and technology.
• The growth of Islam. According to Pew Research, if current trends continue, Islam will pass Christianity as the largest religion in the world around 2070. And by 2100, there will be roughly 1% more Muslims in the world than Christians.
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the difference is most Muslims are only Muslims at the barrel of a gun.
Those poll numbers are very similar to what I see from the young members in my family.
It’s amorality brought to you by communists.
Morality: objective good and bad.
Amorality: subjective good and bad. “What’s good for me is “good” what’s bad for me is “bad”.
Values replace with morals by Leftists.
Just watch a movie from the 50s vs. a contemporary movie.
A current movie the ‘hero’ will lie, cheat, steal, swindle and even murder all considered good because the values of the movie are his perspective.
Amorality promoted and pushed on America by ‘elites’ who do not identify with Christianity or America.
Correction: morals replaced with values by Leftists
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