Ok.....So you killed off Religion...

[Godscreated]

such terrible crimes would not have escaped public notice, I grew up in the 50's and 60's and experienced the things going on then till now.

The thing about youth is that it tends to not pay attention to worldly matters. After all, why should the young be worried about that which does not affect him when he believes he will live forever? Our mortality really does not seep in until we are adults, and then we begin to pay attention to everything around us. I guarantee that crime was just as bad in your youth as it is today. You simply did not pay attention because there was no reason for you to do so.

Well, let's see when I was young we did not lock our doors at night or when we went to town and other places. Today I have two Rotties that live inside my house and four outside and I lock up everything all the time, hows that for starters. School children didn't shoot each other, we never dreamed of being abducted by strangers. When a murder happened it was in the news, today they are so common place they do not always make the news. When I grew up the news reported many good things today they only have time for the bad and there is more news time now than when I grew up. The country is a much more dangerous place today than it was then.

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Media saturation has nothing to do with it, such terrible crimes would not have escaped public notice, I grew up in the 50's and 60's and experienced the things going on then till now. I'm not going to turn a blind eye to what's going on in this country, it's on a steep downhill grade, maybe the younger generation can't see it, but those I grew up with can and that includes Christians and nonbelievers.

But they DO escape public notice. If you don't have widespread media to get the word out, there is no public notice.

As a for-instance: The NSA got a bill renewed the other day that allows them to collect data on EVERY cell phone call that is made. This has been going on for 7 YEARS and yet, there was no "public notice" of this activity because the MEDIA didn't cover it.

Do some research on crime statistics. I think you will find you have been badly mislead BY THE MEDIA.

That was done in another post and the crime rate from when I was young till now has increased several times and if I'm not mistaken the comparison was per 100,000 people.