The collection of facts and statistics that you are about to read is highly controversial. A lot of people are going to be greatly upset by it. Why? Because they don’t like to be confronted with the truth about America. Most people tend to believe that we can “fix this country” by getting the right politicians into power or by implementing certain economic or social reforms. But the reality of the matter is that our problems go far deeper than that. A moral collapse is eating away at the foundations of our society like cancer. If it continues to go unchecked, it will inevitably destroy America. Unfortunately, fixing moral decay is far more difficult than switching out political parties, because it is in the hearts of hundreds of millions of individual Americans. And most people don’t want to hear anything about a “moral collapse”, because most people like to think that the United States is setting a “good example” for the rest of the planet. But as you will see below, that is not the case at all.
And if we are honest with ourselves, we see the evidence of this moral collapse all around us every day. Just consider a few of the news stories that we have seen recently…
What would cause a high school kid to take two kitchen knives and go on a
stabbing rampagethrough his school?
What would cause a topless woman to
ransack a McDonald’s in St. Petersburg, Florida?
What would cause two 18-year-old boys to beat a 30-year-old mentally-disabled man to death
with a baseball bat just so they could get his XBox?
What would cause a new father to put his 6-week-old daughter in a freezer to keep her from crying?
A lot of people regard those kinds of stories as “isolated incidents”, but as you will see below, they are actually representative of a much larger trend. As a society, we are decaying from the inside out, and we need to start facing the truth if we are ever going to get this turned around. The following are 100 facts about the moral collapse of America that are almost too crazy to believe…
#1 Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States currently has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
#2 Every single year, there are 20 million new STD cases in America.
#4 Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age group account for about 50 percent of all new STD cases each year.
#5 It costs our nation approximately 16 billion dollars a year to treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
#6 According to one survey,
24 percent of all U.S. teens that have STDs say that they still have unprotected sex.
#7 In Chicago, public school kindergarten teachers are now required to set aside
30 minutes a month for sex education.
#9 According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
approximately two-thirds of all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
#10 At this point,
one out of every four teen girls in the U.S. has at least one sexually transmitted disease.
#12 There are 106,216 registered sex offenders in the state of California alone.
#13 18 percent of all women in the United States say that they have been raped at some point in their lives.
#15 Teens that are in the 16 to 19-year-old age bracket are 3 1/2 times more likely than the general population “to be the victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.”
#16
60 percent of male sex abuse victims and
80 percent of female sex abuse victims “are abused by someone known to the child or the child’s family.”
#18 An astounding
30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to adult websites.
#19
70 percent of all men in the 18 to 24-year-old age bracket visit at least one adult website each month.
#20 The average high school boy spends
two hours on adult websites every single week.
#21 Law enforcement officials estimate that about 600,000 Americans and about 65,000 Canadians are trading dirty child pictures online.
#22 It has been estimated that
89 percent of all pornography is produced in the United States.
#23 One survey discovered that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in America visit sex websites while they are at work.
#24 The marriage rate in the United States has fallen to an all-time low. Right now it is sitting at a yearly rate of
6.8 marriages per 1000 people.
#25 In the United States today,
more than half of all couples “move in together” before they get married.
#26 Not surprisingly, an all-time low
44.2 percent of all Americans in the 25 to 34-year-old age bracket are married at this point.
#27 America has the highest
divorce rate in the world by a good margin.
#29 100 years ago, 4.52 people were living in the average U.S. household, but now the average U.S. household only consists of
2.59 people.
#30 According to the Pew Research Center, only
51 percent of all American adults are currently married. Back in 1960,
72 percent of all adults in the United States were married.
#33 In 1970, the average woman had her first child when she was
21.4 years old. Now the average woman has her first child when she is
25.6 years old.
#35 Approximately
47 percent of the women that get an abortion each year in the United States have also had a previous abortion.
#36 The number of American babies killed by abortion each year
is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever been involved in combined.
#37
About one-third of all American women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.
#38 Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers
on 9/11. Every single day, more than 3,000 American babies are killed by abortion when you include all forms of abortion.
#40 It has been reported that a staggering 41 percent of all New York City pregnancies
end in abortion.
#41 Most women that get abortions in the United States claim to be Christian. Protestant women get
42 percent of all abortions and Catholic women get
27 percent of all abortions.
#42 According to Pastor Clenard Childress,
approximately 52 percent of all African-American pregnancies now end in abortion.
#43 About
18 percent of all abortions in the United States each year are performed on teenagers.
#44 One very shocking study found that
86 percent of all abortions are done for the sake of convenience.
#45 A Department of Homeland Security report that was released in January 2012 says that if you are “anti-abortion”, you are a
potential terrorist.
#47 Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once said the following…
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
But now she is praised in the halls of the U.S. Congress.
#49 Planned Parenthood specifically targets the poor. A staggering 72 percent of Planned Parenthood’s “customers” have incomes that are either equal to or beneath 150 percent of the federal poverty level. And most of those “customers” live in minority neighborhoods.
#52 The FDA is actually considering making it legal for doctors and scientists to create “
three parent babies” in the United States.
#53 An all-time high
59 percent of all Americans believe that the traditional definition of marriage needs to be changed.
#54 The number of sexual assaults in the U.S. military is at an all-time high, and the majority of them are
male on male.
#56 The number of active members of the U.S. military that kill themselves each year
now exceeds the number that are dying on the battlefield.
#59 In America today, there are
60 million people that abuse alcohol and there are 22 million people that use illegal drugs.
#60 Incredibly,
more than 11 percent of all Americans that are 12 years of age or older admit that they have driven home under the influence of alcohol at least once during the past year.
#61 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly
70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#62 According to the CDC, approximately
9 out of every 10Americans that are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.
#65 Right now, there are
70 million Americans that are on mind-altering drugs of one form or another.
#66 Children in the United States are
three times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants than children in Europe are.
#69 According to the federal government, the number of heroin addicts in the United States
has more than doubled since 2002.
#70 The number of heroin-related overdose deaths has risen
84 percent just since 2010.
#71 It is hard to believe, but
56 percent of all Americans now have “subprime credit”.
#72 Of all the major industrialized nations, America is
the most obese. Mexico is #2.
#73 Only
one state in the entire country has an obesity rate of under 20 percent.
11 stateshave an obesity rate of over 30 percent.
#74 Back in 1962,
only 13 percent of all Americans were obese, but it is being projected that
42 percent of all Americans could be obese by the year 2030.
#76 Without strong families, our young people are constantly in search of an identity. According to the FBI, there are now
more than 1.4 million gang members involved in the 33,000 active criminal gangs in the United States.
#77 In 2012, the latest full year that we have numbers for, the rate of violent crime in the United States increased
by 15 percent.
#78 The average young American will spend
10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21.
#79 One study discovered that
88 percent of all Americans from age 8 to age 18 play video games, and that approximately four times as many boys are addicted to video games as girls are.
#81 At this point, 15-year-olds that attend U.S. public schools
do not even rank in the top halfof all industrialized nations when it comes to math or science literacy.
#82 We live a time when most employers no longer care about their employees. As I wrote about
the other day, a company that Warren Buffett has a controlling interest in has decided to shut down a factory
in Kentucky and move it to Honduras just so that he can make a little bit more money. As a result, 600 workers are going to lose their jobs.
#84 According to a recent
Pew Research Center survey, 60 percent of all Americans believe that “humans and other living things have evolved over time”, while only 33 percent of respondents rejected this statement.
#85
Nearly one-fifth of all U.S. adults have no religious affiliation whatsoever. Back in 1972, only 7 percent of all U.S. adults had no religious affiliation.
#86 The number of Americans with no religious affiliation has grown by
25 percent over the past five years.
#87 The younger you are, the more likely you are not to be affiliated with a religion. 9 percent of all U.S. adults that are 65 or older have no religious affiliation, but a whopping
32 percent of all U.S. adults under the age of 30 have no religious affiliation.
#88
88 percent of those that are religiously unaffiliated “are not looking for religion”.
#89
73 percent of the religiously unaffiliated support gay marriage and 72 percent of the religiously unaffiliated support legalized abortion.
#90 The religiously unaffiliated now make up
24 percent of all registered voters “who are Democrats or lean Democratic”.
#91 For the first time ever, Protestants do not make up a majority of the U.S. population. In 2007, Protestants made up 53 percent of the U.S. population, but now they only make up
48 percent of the U.S. population. Way back in 1972, Protestants made up 62 percent of the U.S. population.
#92
29 percent of all U.S. adults “seldom or never attend religious services”.
#93
51 percent of all U.S. adults believe that churches and other religious organizations “are too concerned with money and power”.
#94
66 percent of all U.S. adults believe that religion is “losing its influence on American life”.
#95 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans with “no religion”
more than doubled between 1990 and 2008.
#97 A study conducted by the Barna Group discovered that
nearly 60 percent of all Christians from 15 years of age to 29 years of age are no longer actively involved in any church.
#98 It is being projected that the percentage of Americans attending church in 2050 will be
about half of what it is today.
#99 One survey conducted a while back found that
52 percent of all American Christians believe that “at least some non-Christian faiths can lead to eternal life”.
#100 According to LifeWay Research,
46 percent of all Americans never even think about whether they will go to heaven or not.
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