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Rob was a terrific young man—bright, good-looking and polite—the kind of person anyone would want for a son. His parents were proud of him, as they should've been. I'd known him since childhood and can't remember ever seeing a more pleasant, mature and trusting youngster. Brought up in a Christian home, he had everything going for him.
And then he went away to college.
Neither he nor his family was prepared for what would happen to him there. In one of his classes, Rob ran into an atheist professor who soon undermined and ultimately destroyed his belief in the Bible. It wasn't long before Rob abandoned his Christian convictions and threw away everything he'd been taught and believed about the Bible.
Rob (not his real name) wasn't the first casualty—nor will he be the last—in an ongoing war.
The United States, and indeed much of the Western world, is engaged in a war. No, not the war on terror, which is very real—but a war every bit as serious and with equally far-reaching consequences. Like the war on terror, it's a battle for survival between two starkly different visions of the future.
Some have labeled it "the culture war." That's a fitting description, though not entirely accurate. The issues run much deeper. At its core we're involved in a battle over the Bible.
The battle affects much more than religion. It spills over into politics, education, entertainment, the courts and many other aspects of life. Regrettably, the battle has already been lost in much of Western Europe, where religion and the Bible have been so denigrated that they play little role in public or private life.
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