"They took God out of the schools" (church, atheist, Christian)

[OzzyRules]

This is the claim that evangelicals are making regarding all of the crimes which have been on the increase, such as mass shootings.

But my question is, are they correct? You know that I am not an evangelical, but I think their words may be technically correct in spite of themselves. Many of the mass-shooters are coming from evangelical/home-schooled backgrounds, so their essential argument seems invalid. However, I think that the TRUE God left the church in the 1960's after the Civil Rights movement began, and the spirit of God entered the secular realm. Before that decade, the church were leaders in social progress and civil rights. They started hospitals and charities. But today, those same hospitals and charities are secular, and often religious in name only. And the evangelicals have only a minimal interest in those same kinds of services. The early and middle 20th century Christian had a focus on Social Justice. But that has all but left the church today.

What do atheists and secularists believe regarding the increase in crime? Why do we lock our doors? Why is there more and more security? Why are children being forced to carry clear backpacks?

What accounts for these changes in our society? It's like we are regressing backwards into the Wild West days when everyone carried a gun.

Why?

[mensaguy]

Thanks to PNW-type-gal for spotting this and closing the thread.

It stays closed because 1) the topic is probably more suited for the P&OC forum, 2) nobody took God out of schools, 3) crime is higher in more religious parts of the US, and 4) everybody wasn't carrying a gun in the Wild West.

You really ought to look stuff up before you start threads.