But that wasn't my point, which I'm sure you already know.
My point was the children who are taught that our origin was nothing but an accident of chance are far more likely to feel that their lives are without purpose and meaning.
If you look at literature, art, music in the 20th century you will see what was, IMO, the result of atheistic evolution.......meaninglessness.
I also believe the problem of abortion is an inevitable result of the lack of value placed on life due to evolution. Destruction of the weak by the strong.
Understanding that we are the special creation of a loving God changes your whole perspective, and understanding of the purpose of humanity.
If you look at literature, art, music in the 20th century you will see what was, IMO, the result of atheistic evolution.......meaninglessness.
I also believe the problem of abortion is an inevitable result of the lack of value placed on life due to evolution. Destruction of the weak by the strong.
Oh give me a break,
1) In essence in evolution whoever has the most surviving offspring wins so Abortion is about as anti-evolution as you can get.
2) This whole idea they people who don't believe in your God are the reason for all societies moral ills is not backed up by the facts.
From 1991 to 2001, The Number of the nonreligious doubled in number while at the same time the number calling themselves Christians declined by 10%
yet the violent crime rate has declined through this period, as well as The pregnancy rate for unmarried women has continuously declined through the 1990s and the abortion rate dropped by about 25 percent for both married and unmarried women through the 1990s and The teen Pregnancy Rate Reached a Record Low.
If religion had anything to do with preventing the above, Why as the country becomes less religious the above is improving?
3) The current young generation Y is probably the most pro-life generation we've had in a long time and yet they are the least religious.
So religiousness and morality don't correlate. So even if Christianity was to fade away in the next 20 years it wouldn't have any effect on the overall morallity of the country.
This is a non-sequitor. Why would a non-acceptance of the Almighty lead to a life without purpose or meaning? Many of the atheists I've known over the years (and a few of them I knew back in junior high and high school) were not the nihilistic people you paint them to be. Indeed, they'd create their own purposes, such as volunteering for charity work, and set their own goals.
Now, the most "do-nothing" crowd I've ever run with are the "Apocolyptic Christians." These are typically fundamentalists who believe "God is coming soon." Therefore, they don't actually accomplish anything because God'll be here before they finish. My wife's grandmother, a staunch Seventh Day Adventist was of this bent. She tried to discourage my wife from going to college as it would be a waste of time because God would come before my wife finished. Fifteen years later my wife is completing her Master's Degree in psychology having realized that God may not be coming nearly as soon as her (now-deceased) grandmother claimed.