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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1<\/strong> page.<\/span><\/p>\n Until around the 1960s in America, lasciviousness, adultery, and fornication were almost universally deemed reprehensible. Divorce was shameful, pornography was underground, and homosexuality was illegal. These elements are now on open display and enjoy wide approval\u2014and participation.<\/span><\/p>\n Is our nation stronger or weaker because of these changes? Are families\/homes more or less secure? Is the \u201cmisery index\u201d for individuals greater or less? Do more or fewer people turn to chemical \u201csolutions\u201d for failure to find \u201cpurpose\u201d in life? Are we experiencing more or fewer individual murders by abortion and mass murders? To ask is to answer.<\/span><\/p>\n Many \u201cwhys\u201d might be suggested to explain the unarguable decline in national morals and ethics. Arguably, they all go back to a single taproot: Charles Darwin and his evolutionary hoax. Before his theories caught on in the 1870s, Western nations, though divided between Protestant and Catholic, were united in accepting the Biblical view of man as the apex of the creation of the Almighty, Self-existent God. Man had a purpose\u2014to glorify God\u2014and the Bible set forth man\u2019s behavior that would do so.<\/span><\/p>\n The leaven of Darwinism had its first effects in Western Europe. America stood as the last bastion of any degree of faith. Early in the 20th<\/sup> century, Darwinism gradually began influencing major theological schools, eventually producing an ever-larger army of faithless pulpiteers. It steadily morphed from mere theory to \u201cfact\u201d in the public schools, wreaking havoc on faith. By the last third of the century, a palpable decline in morals was occurring. General respect for Biblical morals has now become almost passe\u0301 in our national culture.<\/span><\/p>\n The increased acceptance of Darwinism and the parallel increase in amoral\/immoral patterns of behavior are not merely coincidental. The widespread adoption of Darwinism undermined the Biblical purpose <\/strong>of mankind\u2014the basis <\/strong>of human morality<\/strong>. Darwinists admit as much:<\/span><\/p>\n Contrary to this pessimistic, destructive, nihilistic, anti-theistic, depressing view of man comes the Bible\u2019s profound statement of man\u2019s Divine purpose: \u201cFear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty<\/em> of man\u201d (Ecc. 12:13).<\/span><\/p>\n [Note: <\/strong>I wrote this article for and it appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, October 28, 2016.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution: <\/strong>From TheScripturecache.com<\/em>, owned and administered by Dub McClish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 0[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page. Until around the 1960s in America, lasciviousness, adultery, and fornication were almost universally deemed reprehensible. Divorce was shameful, pornography was underground, and homosexuality was illegal. These elements are now on…<\/p>\n\n