Statistics Concerning the State of America
(General Knowledge)
*More of America's citizens are victims of
serious crime than any other group of citizens in the world.
*99% of Americans will be victims of theft
at least once in their lives. 80% of Americans can expect to be victims
of violent crime at least once in their lives
*16,189 people are killed in drunk driving automobile
accidents each year. That's one death caused by drunk driving every 32
minutes.
*America leads the world in abortions performed.
Since abortion was legalized by our Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade, more
than 30 million babies have been killed. This now amounts to one eighth
the population of the entire United States.
*68% of American children live with two parents.
This is down from 77% in 1980. 24% of children live with only their mother,
4% live with only their father, and 4% live with neither of their parents.
*36% of children live without their biological fathers.
*70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions
come from fatherless homes.
*Every day in America 3,000 teenagers star smoking.
*In a survey of 26,086 elementary age students in
22 states, it was discovered that many nine and ten-year-old fourth graders
had used cigarettes (4.1%), drank alcohol (7.7%), and used illegal drugs
(6.3%). The survey discovered that by sixth grade, 15% of students had
used cigarettes and alcohol.
*In the same survey, 26% of 12th graders reported
using illicit drugs in the previous 30 days. 23% of 10th graders and 13%
of 8th graders reported using illicit drugs in the previous 30 days.
*one out of three children born this year will be
born to an unwed mother.
*In the last two years there have been murders and
shootings by students in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida.
*If a child attends church every Sunday, they will
be under Christian teaching approximately 78 hours each year. In comparison,
that same child will be taught in school 1,260 hours each year, and will
watch an additional 1,260 hours of television each year.
*More than 1 million of last year's high school graduates
received their diploma even though they could not read and write at an
eight grade level.
*In the 50's and 60's the most pressing problem with
students was choosing gum. Today about 135,000 students carry guns to school
daily; one fifth of all students report carrying a weapon of some type.
*Twenty-one percent of all secondary school students
avoid using the restrooms out of fear of being harmed or intimidated.
*Every baby born today owes the United States federal
government approximately $70,000.
*America's national debt exceeds six trillion dollars.
(If you went back to the time of Christ and spent one million dollars each
day, seven days a week, from that time until the present – one million
dollars per day- by the year 2000 you would not have reached even one trillion
dollars. Our nation now owes six time that amount.
*19% of Christians and 24% of non-Christians watch
MTV in the last week
*83% of Christians and 79% of non-Christians registered
to vote
*27% of Christians and 23% of non-Christians have
been divorced
*23% of Christians and 27% of non-Christians bought
a lottery ticket in the last week
*7% of Christians and 8% of non-Christians took medication
for depression in the past year
*76% of Christians and 87% of non-Christians watched
a PG.-13 or R-rated movie in the past 3 months
*9% of Christians and 16% of non-Christians watched
an X-rated movie in the past 3 months
America's Christian heritage is much more than what
we are seeing today. For some reason our news media and our leaders don't
want us to remember yester-year and were we came from. When was the last
time you were told things like these:
*President George Washington said: "It is impossible
to rightly govern the world without God and Bible."
*John Quincy Adams said: "So great is my veneration
of the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident
will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and
respectable members of society."
*Andrew Jackson said: "That Book, sir, is the rock
on which our republic rest."
*Abraham Lincoln said: "I believe the Bible is the
best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the
world is communicated to us through this Book."
*Dwight D. Eisenhower said: "To read the Bible is
to take a trip to a fair land where the spirit is strengthened and faith
renewed."
*Douglas MacArthur said: "Believe me, sir, never
a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before
I go to bed."
