Everywhere in the secular media I've
been hearing and reading about the critical problem of poor self-esteem among young
people. A bad self-image is being cited as the cause of teen suicide, drug abuse,
crime, and violence. Educators and community leaders are trying to find ways to help
children bolster their self-esteem. Where does this plague of low self=esteem come
from? Ironically, straight from the atheistic evolutionary view of man with which
society has indoctrinated our young people. Where can they get a healthy and accurate
self-esteem? From the very Judeo-Christian ethic society is rejecting, and trying
so desperately to keep out of the classrooms and public life.
Why do you suppose America's children are feeling like they, their lives, and their
values have so little meaning. This article I found might explain it. This is what
they are teaching in the schools more or less.
The Secular Basis for Self-Esteem
You are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm that washed up on
an ocean beach 3 1/2 billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of
time, chance, and natural forces. Your closet living relatives swing from trees and
eat crackers at the zoo.
You are a a mere grab bag of atomic particles, a conglomeration of genetic substance.
You exist on a tiny planet in a minute solar system in an obscure galaxy in a remote
and empty corner of a vast, cold, and meaningless universe. You are flying through
lifeless space with no purpose , no direction, no control and no destiny but final
destruction.
You are a purely biological entity, different only in degree but not in kind from
a microbe, virus, or amoeba. You have no essence beyond your body, and at death you
will cease to exist entirely. What little life you do have is confined to a fragile
body aimlessly moving through a world plagued by war, famine, and disease. The only
question is whether the world will manage to blow itself up before your brief and
pointless life ends on its own.
In short, you came from nothing, you are going nowhere, and you will end your brief
cosmic journey beneath six feet of dirt, where all that is you will become food for
bacteria and rot with worms. Now....why don't you feel good about yourself?
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