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 Effects of Atheism in the Schools

    And the mists of darkness are the temptations of the devil, which blindeth the eyes, and hardeneth the hearts of the children of men,
 and leadeth them away into broad roads, that they perish and are lost. (1 Ne. 12:17)

   
         For more than a generation now, atheism has influenced our culture.  Atheists in government and the courts caused that God be banned from the schools. Consequently students were no longer accountable to anyone.  Moral restraints were out.  Self-gratification was in.
      
 Fornication became routine, marriage deemed unnecessary.  Virginity became the butt of ribald night club humor.  Movies first derided the traditional family, then maligned its Judaic-Christian roots, then depicted it as a psychopathic arrangement to be avoided.  Perversion in entertainment steadily increased to slake the media’s thirst for sensationalism and its lucrative ratings.  Non-marital births, once stigmatized, later proliferated.
      
 Babies conceived in these promiscuous circumstances were thus not a joy, but a cursed inconvenience.  The immediate  solution was to abort.  For atheists, it was not enough for abortion to be a choice.  They pushed to make it a “right”, and then a law.  Abortion developed into a booming industry. .
       
Many children, even though not aborted, still are found in unhealthy environment. These enter the public school system, where anti-family dogmas are drummed into their heads. Sex issues dominate the educational agenda, warping children’s perspective of the world they live in, and crowding out all character-building literature.

In high school they are indoctrinated with the notion that their bodies and minds are not in the image of God— but merely a random collection of chemicals and hormones.  They are taught that promiscuous sex is an expected part of puberty, and that to kill any babies resulting from fornication is perfectly acceptable.  Nevertheless, sexually active girls are three times more likely to take their own lives than those who are abstinent.  Boys are eight times more likely.  Two thirds of teens who have committed moral transgression wish they could go back to innocence again and desperately wish they had waited.1 
 
Starting at appallingly early ages, youth are told that drugs will fix everything, whether it be poor academic performance, physical unattractiveness, or any other form of unhappiness. In time these children come to believe that human life, including their own, is utterly worthless.

Then for some reason atheists are shocked when these morally deformed youth murder their classmates, their teachers, and often themselves. These youth might have been spared this misery if their parents had taught them the Word of God. The commandments of God are like signs along the road of life.  They keep you out of the danger zones.

The mists of darkness have now gone on to invade cyberspace.  Pornography, violence, and immorality are now epidemic.
   

    Finding Comfort in a Sure Foundation of Truth

Do you sometimes feel as if the very foundation of everything you have always believed in is being threatened, shaken, even torn down? Take heart.  Philosophers come and go, but God is here to stay. Not only does He live, but He still speaks to us. His word is sure— the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, more than ever, the Bible is still true.

 Allies of the Bible in an Era of Unbelief