Informing and Equipping Americans Who Love Freedom
But 75% say American society would be better off if more Americans were religious
Allan Erickson, The Western Center For Journalism —It don’t matter if we stop going to church.
• Poll shows fewer Americans think traditional morality is relevant
It don’t matter if we stop reading the Bible.
• Restraint and self-control becoming things of the past
It don’t matter if we take Christ seriously and make service the center of our national life.
• Study finds benefits of being selfish
It don’t matter if we ignore the Scripture and kill babies in the womb, cheapening life and hardening hearts.
• Students killed in school massacre
• Youth opens fire on women and children during Mother’s Day parade
It don’t matter if we stop teaching sexual responsibility according to traditional values.
• Man rapes toddler in Alaska
• Man imprisons women for 10 years in Ohio
• Female teacher has sex with student
It don’t matter if we prohibit Christians from sharing faith in the military and silence chaplains setting moral standards.
• Report: 22 soldiers commit suicide everyday
• Sex scandals rock the military
• Men assaulting men account for most military sexual violence
It don’t matter if we remove prayer from school.
• Bullying and girl gang fights in schools, epidemic
• Coach accused of sexually abusing students
• Students ‘hook up,’ recreational sex drives increase in STDs
It don’t matter if we ignore what Scripture says about family.
• Fatherlessness directly linked to exploding prison populations
• Single mother households usually mean poverty
• Domestic violence against women increases
• Number of homeless youth increasing
It don’t matter if we post and read the Ten Commandments.
• Crime rates soar in the cities
• Young people no longer respect parents
• Adultery and predation have become lifestyles
It don’t matter if we follow scriptural wisdom concerning relations between the sexes.
• Men and women alienated, fewer marry anymore, divorce and broken homes at all time high
It don’t matter if we heed what the Bible says about raising children.
• Youth shoots baby in the face
• Youth flash mob, stealing enmasse
• Latch Key Kids at greater risk
It don’t matter if we take God out of the public square.
• Government corruption, officials lying, rampant throughout government
It don’t matter if parents hold themselves accountable to godly authority.
• Study shows child abuse and neglect on the increase
It don’t matter if people pray and ask for power to love and do good works.
• Headline: the more government takes over, the less individuals take personal responsibility
It don’t matter if we follow the God of love and his prescriptions for handling money.
• U.S. faces bankruptcy and depravations on an unheard of scale
It don’t matter if we seriously pursue truth.
• Study shows younger generations believe truth is relative, a matter of personal choice
It don’t matter if we prefer man’s wisdom to God’s.
• Atheist regimes responsible for killing 100 million men, women and children last century.
We once understood the connection between virtue and liberty, cultivating the former to preserve the latter. Now, most people have fallen for the lie that doing anything you want to do is freedom. In truth, that belief leads to chaos, violence, and tyranny. There is only one place to find the power that fosters virtue, and that one place is not the human mind. » Full Article
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Allan Erickson enjoyed an 11-year career in radio, television and print journalism as a reporter, talk show host, and operations manager. He then turned to sales and marketing for a decade. Twelve years ago he started a training and recruitment company. Allan & wife Jodi have four children and live in California. He is the author of the book “The Cross & the Constitution in the Age of Incoherence,” Tate Publishing, 2012, and his columns appear in www.ClashDaily.com and www.WesternJournalism.com. He is available to speak in churches addressing the topics of faith and freedom. To contact him, email: allanlerickson@gmail.com » Full Bio
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