life of a female bible warrior

The world is increasingly becoming more secular, though some might still refer to it as “pluralistic.” America, however, is moving from a once very religious nation, to a more secular country. How has America changed as we’ve been moving away from God? (Source)

What does America look like now? What are the headlines and statistics in this increasingly secular “world without God?”  Are these statistics mere coincidence? How is life for our children in this secular nation?

Let’s take a look at some interesting current events:

1) Twenty children slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. (Source)

2) Gang-raped teen unconscious and under the influence,  also put on display and urinated upon by high school youths in Ohio. (Source)

3) Increasing figures of mass child abuse, impacting all socioeconomic groups. (Source)

4) In the last thirty years, since 1982,  sixty one mass murders have occurred. (Source)

5) Child & adolescence bullying is on the rise in our schools. (Source)

6) Domestic violence is on the rise. (Source)

7) Illicit drug use by teens on the rise in schools. (Source)

8) One baby is aborted every 26 seconds, 137 every hour, 3,304 every day,
23,196 every week , 100,516 every month, 1.206,192 every year in the United States alone. (Source)

9) With more than 2.3 million people locked up, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. One out of 100 American adults is behind bars — while a stunning one out of 32 is on probation, parole or in prison. (Source)

10) After spouses killing spouses, parents killing children is the most common variety of family homicide, according to a U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics study of homicides from 1976 to 2005. (Source)

11) The number of young children who kill is small, but edging up after reaching an all-time high a decade ago. (Source)

12) The U.S. Justice Department suggests that most U.S. children are exposed to violence in their daily lives, with more than 60 percent reporting exposure within the past year. (Source)

13) On the link between certain widely prescribed psychotropic drugs, suicide and homicidal violence, Dr. David Healy, a British psychiatrist and author of “Pharmageddon,” said in November of 2012: “Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription drugs are medicines best kept secret…” (Prescription-Drug-Induced Violence Medicine’s Best Kept Secret? Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) November 12, 2012) (Source)

14) Shortt adds that Ritalin, Adderall, Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and other psychotropic drugs are, “…being used to drug schoolchildren at rates that are difficult to comprehend…The Drug Enforcement Administration has estimated that 8 million children and adults were on Ritalin in 2000. Prescriptions for Ritalin increased by 700 percent from 1990 to 2001.” (Source)

15) Forty million Americans are regular visitors to internet porn sites. Twenty percent of men admit to watching porn at work. By age eleven, most of our children have seen pornography online. (Source)

16) One in three ten-year-olds have been exposed to pornography online; the largest group of internet porn consumers: 12 to 17 year olds. Fifty percent of pastors regularly view porn. 70% of Christian men view porn repeatedly. (Source)

17) 747,408. That’s how many registered sex offenders there are in the United States. And according to new information from National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, that number has increased dramatically since 2006. (Source)

18) Since the Columbine attack, there have been at least a 179 school shootings. (Source)

19) 8.1% of coupled households consist of unmarried heterosexual partners, according to The State of Our Unions 2005, a report issued by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. The same study said that only 63% of American children grow up with both biological parents — the lowest figure in the Western world. (Source)

20) Some 70% of sociopaths come from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences similar to the symptoms of sociopathy — early, precocious sexuality; antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite sex; lack of interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. (Source)

21) It’s true that more and more children are growing up in single parent households, and many of these families struggle to get by. But that’s not an accident of poor choices: while single parenthood has been skyrocketing, we’ve also been paring back the supports that could help these families stay afloat. (Source)

What is happening to America? Look how it is changing! There is no denying the impact of the changes. At one time we were a nation of strong family units who loved God, country, and family. We’ve become something else now altogether. Without God and the values of a truly God-centered life in our country, we are rapidly declining.

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. – Ephesians 2:12

All Christians may in like manner be reminded of the fact that, before their conversion, they were “without Christ.” Though they had heard of him, and were constantly under the instruction which reminded them of him, yet they were without any true knowledge of him, and without any of the hopes which result from having embraced him. Many were infidels. Many were scoffers. Many were profane, sensual, corrupt. Many rejected Christ with scorn; many, by simple neglect. All were without any true knowledge of him; all were destitute of the peace and hope which result from a saving acquaintance with him. We may add, that there is no more affecting description of the state of man by nature than to say, he is without a Saviour. Sad would be the condition of the world without a Redeemer – sad is the state of that portion of mankind who reject him. (Source)

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