Are Your Morals Against The Law?

This is an excerpt from the Answers In Genesis website addressing the extreme cultural shift within the United States and the United Kingdom with respect to Christian values and worldview thinking.

Q: Are your morals against the law?

A: There’s no doubt America was founded on
Christian principles based on the Bible. In fact, just two generations ago, the
majority of Americans supported prayer, Scripture readings, and Bible
instruction in public schools. Britain’s Common Law also was founded on biblical
authority. In both countries, people also supported displaying nativity scenes,
crosses, and the Ten Commandments in public places. Gay marriage and abortion
were outlawed.Today, however, it is very obvious that the population as a whole
does not see the Bible as the absolute authority it once did.
For instance,
pollster George Barna found that in the United States, “A minority of born-again
adults (44 percent) and an even smaller proportion of born-again teenagers (9
percent) are certain of the existence of absolute moral truth.” Similar surveys
in the United Kingdom reveal even lower percentages.So what has happened? Why
the dramatic change? Why is the moral position of previous generations being
outlawed more and more? What has driven this moral collapse? Why is this war
going on?Whereas Christian thinking once permeated the public education system,
today the Christian God, prayer, Bible study, and biblical creation have all but
been excluded from the system. Now, generations (including the majority of
students from church homes) are being trained in a secular (anti-God) religion.
They are being indoctrinated to believe that the universe—and all that exists
within it—can be explained without God.Truth is under attack from all sides—and
tragically under-defended by the Church. Continue
reading the introduction to our free online NEW Answers Book 2, as
Carl Kerby and Ken Ham address the root of the problem and what must be done to
stop the “evolutionizing” of America. authority. In both countries, people also
supported displaying nativity scenes,
crosses, and the Ten Commandments in
public places. Gay marriage and abortion
were outlawed.
Today, however,
it is very obvious that the population as a
whole does not see the Bible as
the absolute authority it once did. For
instance, pollster George Barna
found that in the United States, “A minority of
born-again adults (44
percent) and an even smaller proportion of born-again
teenagers (9 percent)
are certain of the existence of absolute moral truth.”
Similar surveys in
the United Kingdom reveal even lower percentages.
So what
has happened?
Why the dramatic change? Why is the moral position of previous
generations
being outlawed more and more? What has driven this moral collapse?
Why is
this war going on?
Whereas Christian thinking once permeated the
public
education system, today the Christian God, prayer, Bible study, and
biblical
creation have all but been excluded from the system. Now, generations
(including the majority of students from church homes) are being trained in
a
secular (anti-God) religion. They are being indoctrinated to believe that
the
universe—and all that exists within it—can be explained without
God.
Truth is
under attack from all sides—and tragically under-defended
by the Church. Continue
reading the introduction to our free online NEW Answers Book 2, as
Carl Kerby and Ken Ham address the root of the problem and what must be done
to
stop the “evolutionizing” of America.