Marcia J. Bunge's Divorce In The Post-Modern World

In this post-modern world, faith (in God) seems to have divorced from reason. The primary target of this divorce are the most vulnerable—the children, those who are future citizens of this world. For instance, a recent published article in Washington Post seem to depict this picture. It claimed that according to Harvard Crimson poll, the combined number of agnostics and atheist, who are now entering their first year, is now higher than those who are Catholics and Protestant. Of course, the graph’s result is only from a single university, and yet the grand picture is obvious: Christianity, at least in the west, as a religion of comprehensive view of reality, is in decline, In other words, the divorce between reason and faith is really a divorce

Hence, if the family is primary school or a ‘domestic church’, then new evangelization begins at home.

Now, despite this fact and today’s children with their ample right and social status and upon which the family shapes its life, there is a compromise on religious and spiritual life. The new evangelization cannot simply takes its root if, according to Marcia J.Bunge, among many crucial factors, there is a “lack of commitment” both by the Church and the parents toward the Children. What is more, Marcia identifies four subtle ways that this is can happen: the lack of parents in faith development, parents neglecting to speak about moral and spiritual matters, the church focusing on other highly controversial issues—abortion, human sexuality, gender relation, contraception; and the church’s inadequate address the responsibility of parents. As a result of these lack of commitments, it is rather clear that children becomes the victim of spiritual deprivation. Moreover, if looking back to the sources, especially the scriptures is the key to wage war against this