sin abounds—political corruption, lying, slander, public displays of debauchery, violent crime, abortion, theft, adultery, drug taking, drunkenness, gambling and greed of all kinds.
Economic woes follow as
taxes increase and governments borrow money to pay for bigger and bigger
police forces, jails, and social security systems to patch up the
problems.
Underpinning this abandonment of faith in God is the widespread
acceptance of evolutionary thinking—that everything made itself by
natural processes; that God is not necessary.
There is ‘design’, such
people will admit, but no designer is necessary. The designed thing
designed itself!
This thinking, where the plain-as-day evidence for
God’s existence (For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Rom. 1:19–20)
is explained away, leads naturally to atheism (belief in no god) and
secular humanism (man can chart his own course without God). Such
thinking abounds in universities and governments today."
CMI
