Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is,

When God is Removed, Evil fills the void.

The 1960s marked the beginning of a downward spiral in America that has continued to this day.

The use of drugs, the sexual revolution,

the breakup of the American family can be traced back to then.

Sixty plus years of moral and spiritual devolution have been devastating.

Many have pointed out the correlation between this downward spiral

and the removal of God from America's classrooms.

Prayer in schools was not always a controversial topic.

In fact, public schools had prayer for nearly 200 years before the Supreme

Court ruled that state-mandated class prayers were unconstitutional in the landmark case of

Engel v. Vital in June of 1962.

When the families of New Hyde Park, New York, complained that the voluntary prayer in schools

went against their religious beliefs, the prayer in question went as follows, quote,

Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessings on our parents, our teachers, and our country. Amen.

Threatening, wasn't it?

Since the court outlawed prayer,

the nation has been in steady moral decline.

Former Secretary of Education, William Bennett,

revealed in his cultural indexes

that between 1960 and 1990, divorce doubled.

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