State of the Nation - Impact of atheist and secular philosophies on America

[jdnation]

I finished watching an important video here. It is made by the Protestant group who run the Creationist website Answers in Genesis. The following video touches upon recent events in the United States by examining quotes from the current President Obama, atheists, compromising Christians, and the rise of secularism and moral relativity in daily life and politics. It outlines the current state of faith in America, what is wrong, why it is losing people, what is causing it and how to fix it! While the perspective is Protestant, it is also a grave issue that Catholics must also come to terms with!

This is a really important and eye-opening video. It’s lengthy and close to an hour, but these problems are not only limited to the USA, but every developed nation from Canada to Europe!

You can watch it here. And I highly encourage you all, Catholics especially to take note of the topics brought up here and to discuss it! The video is in flash embedded in the page and streams quickly on a decent internet connection.
answersingenesis.org/media/video/ondemand/state-of-the-nation-2/state-of-the-nation-2

This is actually the second video ‘State of the Nation 2.’ I also highly recommend watching the first one, which deals with research conducted about why many young people are leaving their faith, the issues with Sunday Schools, and why so many Churches are being closed down across Europe and trends that are beginning to occur in the US. You can watch the first one here (It’s in 3 parts):
answersingenesis.org/media/video/ondemand/state-of-the-nation/state-of-the-nation

 

[markomalley]

I’m not really interested in reading what a fundamentalist group says about things…no offense…

I’d rather read what the Church has said.

For example;

Christianae Reipublicae (On the Dangers of Anti-Christian Writings), Pope Clement XIII (1766)
Mirari Vos (On Liberalism), by Pope Gregory XVI (1832)
Quanto Conficiamur Moerore (On Promotion of False Doctrines), by Pope Pius IX (1863)
Quanta Cura (On Modern Errors), by Pope Pius IX (1864)
Inscrutabili Dei Consilio (On the Evils of Society), Pope Leo XIII (1878)
Quod Apostolici Muneris (On Socialism), Pope Leo XIII (1878)
Diuturnum Illud (On Government Authority), by Pope Leo XIII (1881)
Humanum Genus (On Freemasonry and Naturalism), also by Pope Leo XIII (1884)
Libertas Praestantissimum (On the Nature of True Liberty), again by Pope Leo XIII (1888)
Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (Virtue, Nature and Grace, and Americanism), Leo XIII (1899)
Graves de Communi Re (On Christian Democracy), Leo XIII (1901)
Pascendi Dominici Gregis (On Modernism), Pope St. Pius X (1907)
Une Fois Encore (On the Separation of Church and State), Pope St. Pius X (1907)
Notre Charge Apostolique (Our Apostolic Mandate), Pope St. Pius X (1910)
The Oath Against Modernism, Pope St. Pius X (1910)
Vigilanti Cura (On Motion Pictures), Pope Pius XI (1936)
Divini Redemptoris (On Atheistic Communism), Pope Pius XI (1937)

Note: Pius XI also published many letters about the persecution of the Church in various countries…all of which deal with modernism and secularism.

Humani Generis (On certain opinions which threaten to undermine the foundations of Catholic Doctrine), Ven. Pope Pius XII (1950)

The above is just a small sample…

We Catholics don’t need to refer to fundamentalists…its already been said by the Church long before…

 

[jdnation]

Then in that case I think that you should definately check it out as none of what you have listed covers the underlying problem that they are bringing up, and it is a problem that many in the Catholic Church itself, including our current Pope fail to recognize or mistakenly give creedence to and ignore to our own folly.

I assure you that it is something of importance, a point that many are missing or are plainly ignorant of. I encourage anyone not to just stop their ears simply because its source happens to be from a group of people who follow a heretical religion.

Sadly this is something that the Catholic Church largely ignores. In fact I’m tempted to even go so far as to say that it is something the Church ignorantly encourages; not knowing the traps it is laying for itself.