Removal of God is source of problems
Mayor Daley is calling for more gun control. Channel 2 News did a town-hall meeting. The issue: gangs and the increasing number of murders in Chicago, especially gang-related murders of children. Many ideas have been presented, some of them better than others. No one has addressed the real crux of the problem, however. All these so-called solutions are band-aids for the symptoms, but not cures for the cause.
In 1963, at the behest of the son of Madelyn Murray O'Hare, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that God was out in the schools. Even though our nation and our rule of law are founded on Judeo-Christian principles (if you don't believe me, please read the writings of our founding fathers), and even though the vast majority of American citizens did then and do now believe in God, an atheist's lawsuit was successful in removing God from our schools and much of public life.
Now we face the consequences of such a foolish decision. You see, apart from God we have no basis for morality. If there is no absolute truth, who is to say what is and what is not moral? Add the theory of evolution to the mix and we have basically told our children that they have no inherent worth, no eternal purpose. We are all an accident; by chance we happen to be here. So what happened? Out of wedlock pregnancies increased dramatically, sexually transmitted diseases have become epidemic, drug and alcohol abuse soared, parents abdicated their authoritative roles in favor of being friends with theft kids, gangs increased in numbers, power, and presence. Pornography escalated from relatively soft-core to stuff that is unbelievable, including child pornography. Marriages crumbled because of it with the divorce rate skyrocketing and costing our economy millions as the family unit destructed and kids were home with little or no supervision. The socially engineered welfare programs encouraged fathers to abandon their families.
Removing God from our lives has created an ever-descending spiral of behavior from which we won't recover unless we repent of what has been done to teach our children that there is no authority worth obeying.
P.J. Bertrand
Wood Dale