The anti-religion fervor of the secularist overlooks the basis for biblical wisdom. The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.
" The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed- systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible to that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.
It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden."
David Mamet, "The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture."
The restraint and behaviors that serve as the foundation of society is found in the Bible. Here is one more example of the deleterious effects of ignoring the lessons of that book.
1. "... scholars like W. Bradford Wilcox at the University of Virginia and Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute have been telling us that marriage is becoming an upper class phenomenon.... lower-income Americans have been progressively abandoning marriage for the last two decades.
2. ... Derek Thompson, writing for The Atlantic, ... points to an analysis of census data that reveals the vast economic consequences of this abandonment. Put bluntly, the failure to marry dramatically increases the likelihood of poverty and continued economic retreat.
3. ...the average American family with married parents and at least one child under age 18 living in the same home earned $81,000 last year... almost all of the actual growth in this average familys income in recent years has come from the wife working.
4. ... our marriage crisis is making income inequality worse. Those who are getting married and staying married are, on average, moving ahead in the economy. In contrast, those who are not married are falling behindfast.
5. In a strange twist, marriage has recently become a capstone for the privileged class. The decline of marriage, to the extent that were seeing it, is happening almost exclusively among the poor.
6. Unrelated evidence for the importance of marriage comes from The Journal of Clinical Oncology. Researchers have documented the fact that on average married cancer patients live longer than unmarried patients.... emotional support from a loved one may be far more critical to cancer care than previously recognized.
a. You will not be surprised to know that unmarried men are at greatest risk. ....married women also survive longer than unmarried women with the same disease.
7. Interestingly, Derek Thompson ends his article with these words: This is the marriage crisis behind our inequality crisis. It is not complicated. It requires no regressions. It is the simplest math equation in the world. It says: Two is more than one.
8. Then the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him (Gen 2:18 ESV).
a. Two is more than one.
Two Is Better Than One?Who Knew? ? AlbertMohler.com
I challenge any not to see that it is not capitalism that causes economic inequality....it is the precepts of Liberalism, seen in the failure to marry, to form a family, that is largely responsible for poverty in America.
9. According to the U.S. Census, the poverty rate for single parents with children in the United States in 2009 was 37.1 percent. The rate for married couples with children was 6.8 percent. Being raised in a married family reduced a childs probability of living in poverty by about 82 percent. American FactFinder - Results *
10. 90% of welfare recipients are single mothers.
Jason DeParle, Raising Kevion, New York Times, Aug. 22, 2004
" The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed- systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible to that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.
It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden."
David Mamet, "The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture."
The restraint and behaviors that serve as the foundation of society is found in the Bible. Here is one more example of the deleterious effects of ignoring the lessons of that book.
1. "... scholars like W. Bradford Wilcox at the University of Virginia and Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute have been telling us that marriage is becoming an upper class phenomenon.... lower-income Americans have been progressively abandoning marriage for the last two decades.
2. ... Derek Thompson, writing for The Atlantic, ... points to an analysis of census data that reveals the vast economic consequences of this abandonment. Put bluntly, the failure to marry dramatically increases the likelihood of poverty and continued economic retreat.
3. ...the average American family with married parents and at least one child under age 18 living in the same home earned $81,000 last year... almost all of the actual growth in this average familys income in recent years has come from the wife working.
4. ... our marriage crisis is making income inequality worse. Those who are getting married and staying married are, on average, moving ahead in the economy. In contrast, those who are not married are falling behindfast.
5. In a strange twist, marriage has recently become a capstone for the privileged class. The decline of marriage, to the extent that were seeing it, is happening almost exclusively among the poor.
6. Unrelated evidence for the importance of marriage comes from The Journal of Clinical Oncology. Researchers have documented the fact that on average married cancer patients live longer than unmarried patients.... emotional support from a loved one may be far more critical to cancer care than previously recognized.
a. You will not be surprised to know that unmarried men are at greatest risk. ....married women also survive longer than unmarried women with the same disease.
7. Interestingly, Derek Thompson ends his article with these words: This is the marriage crisis behind our inequality crisis. It is not complicated. It requires no regressions. It is the simplest math equation in the world. It says: Two is more than one.
8. Then the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him (Gen 2:18 ESV).
a. Two is more than one.
Two Is Better Than One?Who Knew? ? AlbertMohler.com
I challenge any not to see that it is not capitalism that causes economic inequality....it is the precepts of Liberalism, seen in the failure to marry, to form a family, that is largely responsible for poverty in America.
9. According to the U.S. Census, the poverty rate for single parents with children in the United States in 2009 was 37.1 percent. The rate for married couples with children was 6.8 percent. Being raised in a married family reduced a childs probability of living in poverty by about 82 percent. American FactFinder - Results *
10. 90% of welfare recipients are single mothers.
Jason DeParle, Raising Kevion, New York Times, Aug. 22, 2004
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: This indicates that we are to choose, or elect God fearing men and women. 
