Result:
Mass murdering was virtually unknown and unthinkable prior to 1964. Today it’s a weekly occurrence.
Let's go back to middle school science. To propose a result, we must control all variables accept one.
We don't start with the result:
Upswing in Mass Murder
Then point to a single variable:
Church Attendance Drops
and jump to a conclusion when no other variables were considered or controlled. For example, since 1964:
Great increase in Welfare resulting in:
- Bigger Government
- Single Parent Families
Government also relaxed laws on
- Divorce
- Abortion
- Increasing Taxes
Greater Inventions, especially appliances resulting in:
- Household chores being done more easily, more quickly, more efficiently
- Foods, fresh, frozen, pre-cooked also readily available making for fewer household chores
- Manufactured clothing making clothes less expensive to buy ready made, so less sewing at home.
- Women with a lot of time on their hands and women have never been content to sit around doing nothing
Women returning to the workplace
Children go to childcare facilities while mothers go to work
More government to facilitate childcare, child protection, etc.
Today's children are growing up with parents, government, and society favoring divorce, abortion, outsourcing childcare, big government, and people also yelling about loosening consequences for criminal offenses. There are no boundaries or rules for those coming into the country. As a whole, society does not care about marriage, children, breaking the law, and are out to break as many traditional rules a healthy society has lived by in past generations.
The problem is not lower Church attendance. When society collapses this remaining fragment will be the ones (as they have always been) to pick up the pieces and begin again. Let them be. We need them to be as strong and as untouched by current society as possible.
