{"id":6851,"date":"2011-09-02T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2011-09-01T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:09:09","slug":"bestselling-author-america%e2%80%99s-culture-is-in-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/09\/bestselling-author-america%e2%80%99s-culture-is-in-collapse","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling author: America\u2019s culture is in collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

American culture is circling the drain faster and faster, but most of us are too caught up in the frenetic pace of our lives to notice the dramatic changes that have sent our country spinning out of control, says New York Times<\/em> best-selling author Dr. David Jeremiah.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a \u2019cynical age of situational ethics, when atheists are shaking their fists at God, Jesus is the butt of crude jokes, the Bible is treated no better than a coffee table book of trite proverbs, and \u2018war\u2019 and \u2018marriage\u2019 are being redefined daily,\u201d says the host of the Turning Point radio program and senior pastor of California\u2019s Shadow Mountain Community Church.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWho thought we would ever see the day when atheists would be angry?<\/p>\n

\u201cAtheists have become intolerant and vocal, railing against God with fanatical zeal,\u201d he says \u2014 and shows how the movement has abandoned rational thought and resorted to toxic vitriol and groundless accusations<\/p>\n

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American culture is circling the drain faster and faster, but most of us are too caught up in the frenetic pace of our lives to notice the dramatic changes that have sent our country spinning out of control, says New York Times best-selling author Dr. David Jeremiah. \u201cWe live in a \u2019cynical age of situational…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[674,32,100],"tags":[2204,2214,1513],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheist","category-christian","category-commentary","tag-christian","tag-commentary","tag-dr-david-jeremiah"],"yoast_head":"\nBestselling author: America\u2019s culture is in collapse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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