One of the powerful indicators of the bankruptcy of Atheistic modern thought, with its conviction that life is getting better and that God is a superfluous requirement, is the moral decline witnessed in Western society. This is perhaps no better exemplified than in an excerpt from a book by David Myers entitled "The American Paradox" its subtitle being "Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty". Published in the year 2000 by Yale University Press, he sets before us statistics that are far from being comfortable. He notes:
Better paid.Better housed
Better educated
Healthier than ever before
ith more human rights
Faster communication
And more convenient transportation than we have ever known.
Alongside all of this largesse however are the signs of life in pain and travail.
Since 1960 the divorce rate has doubled,
Teen suicide has tripled,
Violent crime quadrupled,
The number in prison has quintupled,
illegitimate children six times,
And the number of those cohabiting, seven-fold.
While this list is both terrifying and clever in the way it has been framed, it is by no means exhaustive. Since the recently overturned Roe v Wade case in the USA some sixty million babies have been aborted, a number that is comparable to the population of the UK. Modern secular society cries, from its self exhorted position, to the Christian Church, evidence, evidence and yet more evidence. Its insatiable clamour for something that it is loathed to contemplate almost drowns out the very real and convincing case the Church can and does make. Perhaps what needs to happen is for the Church to make just as strident a demand for evidence that society's Godlessness has succeeded in making this World a better place.
Whenever there is a demand for evidence it is totally justified that the giver of that evidence makes a similar demand on the original questioner for information that substantiates their point of view. David Myers' well crafted observation above is difficult to refute and goes a long way to prove that the Atheistic worldview is not all conquering and it does not increase in value by its proponents shouting ever louder about it. Christianity has a positive and encouraging message that is substantiated by evidence and that brings good news to those in desperate need. In this World, where people are conditioned to accept unquestioningly bad and negative news Christianity has the tools to back up the questioned good news with evidence-based argument and to display, in all sorts of ways, Ultimate Hope.
