China's Un-free Press    

   "We're almost extinct," says an independent journalist in China. Liu Hu claims the government has made its citizens ignorant by harassing reporters and sources.

   He adds, "The public's eyes are blind, their ears are deaf, and their mouths have no words."

America's Silent Christians 
   "Often, the church is very much like the society around it," says Adrian Zenz, a Christian researcher. "That's not acceptable." 

   He contends, "Christians can create more awareness, take up an issue, hold an event, or write to a local politician." He says if Christians don't speak out about matters of justice, they leave the field to others.

   Zenz points out that "we are called to care for others, to look to the interests of others and not just ourselves. We have a calling to speak out, even at the risk of personal loss."

One Who Spoke Out  
   Writing to a newspaper editor, a woman took issue with those who would "destroy the Second Amendment." 

   "It isn't the guns," she wrote. "It is teaching people that they are just accidents of nature, nothing more than animals."  

   "When schools taught that people were made in God's image and life is sacred, people were not shooting and killing each other," she said. "The answer is ... in the return to truth. (Danger) is the person who does not understand that life is sacred," she concluded.

   Our history may not be quite as cut-and-dried as this lady suggests, but there's evidence our culture has declined ever since we banished faith from public schools and government in general. And belief in (and fear of) God also has declined.   

        Jimmy