Have you noticed that where religious standards has been receding in societies?

Question

youth hooliganism and family breakdowns has increased dramatically.

Answer 1

It does seem a bit like Romans 1, where it says that if a society moves away from God, God lets them fall into vice and depravity of all sorts, i.e. He withdraws unseen supernatural restraints so people just follow inclinations - "if you want Me to leave, then I will", so to speak. There has been a couple of abominably perverted sexual abuse cases recently - one just a day ago.

Answer 2

Well, that's an interesting question.

But I think the answer is no. Have a look at this article on how Dutch children are well looked after and happy. It is the result of a survey by UNICEF.

Now the Netherlands doesn't strike me as particularly 'religious' (19% of the people claim go to church at least once a month, another 9% less than once a month, 72% hardly ever or never) and many of the things mentioned in the article would be considered by many Christians to be 'sinful'.

And yet the Netherlands appears to be a good place to live with far fewer problems like hooliganism and family breakdown to worry about.

So I think your view is over simplistic. It is to do with upbringing and not necessarily anything to do with religious standards, much as you might like to think that.

By comparison with the UK the USA is a much more religious society. And yet it has more than it's share of problems, don't you think?
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Answer 3

Look at this quote I found
"Our youth now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love to chatter in places of exercise. Children are tyrants, not the servants of the household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers"
This was said 2500 years ago by Socrates. I will agree that the constant erosion of traditional religious and moral standards has played havoc on society as we know it.
The biggest problem is the breakdown of the Church of England. The Church for too long has not sought to promote traditional values but instead is much more superficial. It does not connect the Bible to everyday life, and many who would atherwise be in church are lost.
The social engineering program of the Government is also to blame. It has sought to create a one-size-fits-all society, and so the British Christian image is seen as outdated and is demoted. This has led to the breakdown of the sanctity of marriage, broken homes, youth crime because the children do not feel a responsibility to a higher power, and the loss of respect in general in society.
It started with hymns being dropped from schools. It seems irreversible.

Answer 4

This is not strictly true, The government has devalued Marriage and family life, married mothers now HAVE to go out to work to help pay the bills, the mortgage, and if the mother is not at home for her children, well what do you think is going to happen? the children start doing their own thing and show disrespect to their parents who then not knowing where to turn or what to do, try and buy them over materialistically. Of course the kids are going to be out on the street with their mates who are in the same boat! Children miss out on the formation of boundaries when it comes to discipline, some parents today haven't any idea what their children are up to, when they're at work all day. Society has devalued the church, look at how much Homosexuality has overtaken our lives and now the church is at fault for condemning it! (not the homosexuals themselves as people but the way they live) It the state interferes with God's law then there is going to be trouble. The commandments of God are a sound basis for the general standard of life in society, even non-believers try to keep to some form of moral standing, that structures their daily life. So Please don't blame the Church or God for man's greedy devotion to the dollar.

Answer 5

"The vitality of men's belief in God is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it? Is it within human power, O Hakim, to effect in the constituent elements of any of the minute and indivisible particles of matter so complete a transformation as to transmute it into purest gold? Perplexing and difficult as this may appear, the still greater task of converting satanic strength into heavenly power is one that We have been empowered to accomplish. The Force capable of such a transformation transcendeth the potency of the Elixir itself. The Word of God, alone, can claim the distinction of being endowed with the capacity required for so great and far-reaching a change." -Baha'u'llah

Answer 6

Simple model;

0 witness- Total Ignorance
1 witness- Man (self?, a false god Gen.3:5-6) chaos, anarchy
2+ witnesses- fact,God's way (Matt. 18:16, etc., unity, team, family)
Which is your choice?

Answer 7

isnt a large portion of the bible about family breakdown (or worse) and mob violence?
irreligion and social dissorder are almost certainly not possitivly corelated.

Answer 8

Have you noticed that where religious standards are maintained, we have the KKK, The Taliban, Al Quaida, Christian suicide cults, wars against Muslim states, paedophile Priests,and 1000 years of Christian atrocities that believers prefer to forget ?

Answer 9

Yes, absolutely.

Answer 10

Look at the school system since prayer has been taken out. That is all you need to see to realize what is happening.