I just found out over the past 2 or so months my wife of almost 20 years has been reading a lot about deconversion/deconstruction. There was an event about 5 years ago in which she was spiritually abused. For 22-ish+ years, she's been a daily bible reader. Then, it all stopped one day. She used to read a kids version to our 8 year old at bedtime each night, and that stopped too.
She confessed to me last night that she no longer believes in God at all. This is the first I'm hearing about things like deconstruction, but talking to my brother in law about it, it's apparently running rampant in his church, too.
Heads up patriots! I could use all the prayers you got.
Has anyone been faced with this? Has anyone been successful in stopping it? We have 6 kids and she now wants to divorce and go be free.
Lack of morals comes from removing Christianity's prime place in society. You're a moral atheist only because other people of faith are doing the heavy lifting of prayer and sacrifice and good works and you reap the positive spillover from that. Basically, you're free-riding off the fruits of Christan morality and virtues.
A society without God can NEVER be a good and just one. We've already seen what happened in atheist Russia and China.
So how were moral societies around before christianity?
Good moral atheists do seem to miss the larger reality that their entire sense of morality, principle, and values was built by Christianity.