Conservative talk-show host and columnist, Dennis Prager explains how a generation raised with a secular humanist worldview is making best sellers out of books by neo-atheists, The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins; God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens; and Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris:
The secular indoctrination of a generation that has grown into adulthood is bearing fruit. Unless one receives a strong religious grounding in a religious school and/or religious home, the average young person in the Western world is immersed in a secular cocoon. From elementary school through graduate school, only one way of looking at the world -- the secular -- is presented. The typical individual in the Western world receives as secular an indoctrination as the typical European received a religious one in the middle ages. I have taught college students and have found that their ignorance not only of the Bible but of the most elementary religious arguments and concepts -- such as the truism that if there is no God, morality is subjective -- is total. (Read Entire Article)
There is really nothing new about neo-atheism. The denial of God is as old as the Scriptures. David even reserves a special name for folks like Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris: fools. But I am convinced that the tide of tolerant (even eager) acceptance of humanism and atheism today means that it is more important than ever that Christian parents commit themselves to vigilance about establishing a biblical worldview in the heart of their child.
