On April 27, 2013, it was reported that in the United States, 42 states have introduced legislation imposing limits on abortion access. Considering the United States has 50 states, 42 is a considerable number of states enacting these type of laws.
Furthermore, in 2012 biblical creation belief in the United States saw a surge in growth and in 2013 biblical creationists will be more unified and engage in more grassroots activism. See: Biblical creation belief will grow in America in 2013
Why does this matter? Biblical creation belief fuels Christian theological conservatism which in turn fuels pro-life activity.
Consider:
The Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufmann wrote in his 2010 book Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? concerning America:
High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to
liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent
decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious
immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across
denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of
all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic
weight will begin to tip the balance in the culture wars towards the
conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as
abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be
pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer
Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World
Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms
stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the
entire Abrahamic family.
A survey of 1535 people, conducted by the Australian National University, revealed that belief in evolutionis associated withmoral permissiveness. See: Morals decline linked to belief in evolution If you teach people that they come from animals and that are merely animals and they will often act like animals.
1. When will European Darwinism collapse? When will American Darwinism collapse?
2. How fast will Christian creationism expand and Darwinism collapse in Europe?
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What can Christendom learn from the experiences of an innovative and
forward thinking Christian organization about speeding up the collapse
of European Darwinism, atheism and agnosticism?
This must be troubling to dogmatic evolutionist because if creationism can grow in Europe, it can grow anywhere. We covered this matter in a number of articles: A collection of our articles on European creationism
Europe's economic prospects and its religious landscape
Michael Shedlock's analysis of the global economy and the European economic crisis is highly praised by both sides of ideological fence - namely by liberal media outlets and by conservatives in terms of their economic/political views. You can read his bio and see for yourself: Michael Shedlock's bio
Furthermore, we published articles on how European Darwinism has bleak prospects and how Christian creationism is expanding in European countries and how worsening economic conditions could accelerate this process:
Many people hype “the coming economic collapse” as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster. Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functions. But that is not how the financial world works. The financial world is like a game of chess – very slow and methodical. Yes, there are times when things happen very quickly (like back in 2008), but even that crisis played out over a number of months. Sadly, most Americans are not used to thinking in terms of months or years. These days, most Americans have the attention span of a goldfish and most Americans have been trained to expect instant gratification. They are simply not accustomed to being patient and to wait for things. Well, despite what you may have read, the economic collapse is not going to be a single event. It is going to play out over quite a few years. In some ways we are experiencing an economic collapse right now. When the next major financial crisis occurs, many will be calling that “an economic collapse”. But if you really want to grasp what is happening to us, you need to think long-term. We are heading for a complete and total nightmare, but it is going to take some time to get to the end of the story.
Yes, there will certainly be times of great chaos. The financial crisis of 2008 was one of those moments. But the financial crisis of 2008 did not completely destroy us. Neither will the next crisis. I think it is helpful to think of what is happening to us as a series of waves. When you build a beautiful sand castle on the beach, the first wave that comes in does not totally destroy it. Rather, the first wave weakens the castle and it is destroyed by subsequent waves. Well, that is what is happening to us.
I believe economic degradation of Europe will happen in a series of events and that economic competition with Asia and other countries will cause European decline to accelerate. In addition, European governments will try to socialize the effects of their decline as much as possible. This will prolong their decline. The billionaire and legendary investor Jim Rogers is very bullish on China/Asia and has even moved his family to Singapore. As noted above, Christianity is exploding in China in terms of its adherents. See: China: World's biggest atheist population about to see a big decline
Also, there is a possibility that some European countries may minimize the effects of their long term decline by defaulting on their debt and forcing their bankers to take the economic lumps instead of their populace which Iceland did. See: Iceland: default and devalue However, I don't believe that this will stem the long term decline of Europe in our lifetime. Also, central bankers, private bankers and government bureaucrats are very stubborn and their influence is very strong so defaults on sovereign debt and/or private bank debt maybe the exception rather than the rule. See: Stubborn central bankers and Bankers and Italy/Greece
Traditionally, when there is a state religion and there are political scandals the reputation of the state religion gets sullied. In addition, a state religion inhibits competition and so the religious landscape suffers in terms of quality and vibrancy (the religious scholar Rodney Stark does some excellent work in this area). Furthermore, when a state begins losing power, the state religion loses its grasp of power as well.
Darwinism is both an ideology and a religion. Michael Ruse, an atheist and evolutionist science philosopher admitted, “Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.”
So it would seem that European governments facing increasing economic problems would have their policies questioned concerning Darwinism by a growing religious population within their midst. In addition, it would make sense that as secular Europe suffers decline that secular ideologies such as atheism, agnosticism and Darwin would be less influential in the world. Also, as Asian Christianity continues to explode and Asia continues to prosper long term, it would seem as if Christian influence in the world would increase.
We have performed these unprecedented analyses on several cases. Austria offers us a window into what the future holds. Its census question on religious affiliation permits us to perform cohort component projections, which show the secular population plateauing by 2050, or as early as 2021 if secularism fails to attract lapsed Christians and new Muslim immigrants at the same rate as it has in the past. (Goujon, Skirbekk et al. 2006).
This task will arguably become far more difficult as the supply of nominal Christians dries up while more secularisation-resistant Muslims and committed rump Christians comprise an increasing share of the population.
Collapse of Darwinism in America
America has a stronger history of religious freedom than Europe. So the religion of Darwinism has had less sway in America than in Europe. And make no mistake, Darwinism is a religion and ardent Darwinists have established a cult of personality around Charles Darwin. See: Darwinism is a religion and Question Evolution! Day So it seems reasonable to assume Darwinism would weaken faster in America than in Europe and that seems to be happening. See: American young earth creationism increased in recent months - Gallup survey Europe's economy affecting American economy It is reasonable to assume that European economic problems would affect a U.S. economy that is presently under 16 trillion dollars of federal government debt. Thinktanks and financial reporters indicate for good reason that the European crisis could have a very significant effect on the United States economy. See: How contagious is Europe's econmic crisisand America bruised by Eurocrisis
Belief in biblical creation rising in America and the rest of the world would have an effect on Europe due to global communication and religious immigration. And of course, the reverse is true to some extent as well. So we believe that working on spreading creationism in North America, the UK, France, Germany, Latin America, Norway, Italy, other European countries, Korea, China and other places will have a synergistic effect in terms of defeating Darwinism.
Speeding the collapse of Darwinism through Christian cooperation
Important questions:
1. What does recent Christian history tell us about evangelism and the benefits of Christian cooperation? Are their innovative Christian organizations achieving tremendous evangelism successes?
2. Can these successes be applied to defeating Darwinism in the fastest possible time?
Creationists, why wait for Darwinism to come crashing down in the latter half of the 21st century if it can largely happen in the first half? We agree Darwinism is merely a collection of pseudoscience held together by indoctrination, don't we? Let break the bonds of indoctrination sooner rather than later. Let raise our level of dissent louder and louder until it cannot be ignored easily. So get involved in the Question Evolution! Campaign and spread its dissemination 15 questions for evolutionists
If creationists are going to make large strides in defeating Darwinism, it is going to take manpower, Christian collaboration and adequate resources.
VisionSynergy helps Christian organizations work together for maximum impact by developing and strengthening strategic ministry networks and partnerships in critical areas of world mission.
VisionSynergy plays a very unique role in the global Christianity community as they are one of the few mission service organizations specifically dedicated to empowering ministry collaboration among a large network of Christian organizations.
One of the members of our Question Evolution! Campaign has contacted and they offered to explore what they could do to help us advance biblical creation belief in the Western World (US, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) and the rest of the world.
VisionSynergy is currently supported by a group of financial investors who understand the power of collaboration. Their group of investors consists of hundreds of individuals, churches, and Christian foundations who want their resources to have the greatest possible impact on critical areas of world mission. The majority of their funding comes through grants from major Christian foundations and through high-capacity individuals.
Some of VisionSynergy's achievements
Below are two remarkable success stories of VisionSynergy and how they helped advance biblical Christianity.
Mongolia:
Phill Butler discusses the formation of a partnership to reach Mongolia. In the early 1980′s there were only a handful of known believers in Mongolia. Today, Mongolia has been radically transformed – sending more Christian missionaries per capita than any other nation.
North Africa:
Phill Butler discusses the challenging formation of a partnership working in several countries of North Africa. In the past 20 years, major people groups in this region have seen some of the biggest movements of Muslims to Christ in history.
2013 will see the Question Evolution! Campaign greatly expand
Using a sound plan, the Question Evolution! Campaign will be significantly expanded in 2013. Part of that plan will include the creation of the world's largest coalition of creationist organizations.
