A God-less America = A Law-less America

     I saw this article in the Huffington Post yesterday. Very interesting. According to an exit poll done after the 2008 elections, 12% of Americans were religiously-unaffiliated. This article states it's gone up to 19%, and a Gallup poll done in 2012 says America is now 5% atheist, as in Richard Dawkins hard-core type Atheist. The shocking thing about these statistics is that those numbers are continuing to grow. So what? Why should we care whether people are becoming more atheistic or not? I mean, doesn't everyone have a right to believe whatever they want? 

     In America, we tend to have the belief that you can believe what you want, do what you want, and live however you want just as long as it does not keep someone else from living the way they want. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone else it is fine. So does atheism hurt anyone? Does it influence our society, for the worse? The answer is yes. Atheism can and does have a negative affect on society.

     Let me explain. Atheists believe that there is no God; and so because they deny the existence of a moral law-giver, they deny the existence of a universal moral law, and by denying the existence of a universal moral law, they deny the existence of good and evil. Richards Dawkins himself admitted this when he said,


"In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference." - The Blind Watchmaker, pg. 133 (emphasis added)


     So as the number of people who believe this increase, so the number of crimes will increase, and the more "God-less" America becomes, the more Law-less she becomes. So how do we stop this? Well first the church must change her tactics, cause obviously what we're doing now is not working. You can look at the same article to discover that all other religious growth, except Mormonism, is at a stand still. The flashy lights, the rock music, and self-help styled sermons, do not save souls. But Jesus Christ does. We must preach the pure unadulterated gospel. Only the message of Christ can save our nation, and our world.

Solus Christus,

Adam

P.S. For more info. Watch this video by Ravi Zacharias on the existence of God. This is just part 1. Click the YouTube button to view the rest.