WASHINGTON — Pastor and best-selling author Max Lucado said that the dramatic increase in suicide over the last two decades is partially due to the lack of hope stemming from the rise of secularism across the U.S.
Speaking at the launch of his new book, Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God, at the Museum of the Bible on Aug. 6, Lucado said we live in a society “where it’s like somebody put a liposuction on our hope and is sucking it out.”
“I think it’s the price we pay for secularism,” he said, explaining that secularism promotes the idea that “all of life is what happens between birth and hearse.”
“There’s no preeminence or divine power; there’s no reason to be here, there’s no reason to long to live,” he said. “All of life is bookended.”
This view of the world “sucks the hope out of you” and creates a “sour society,” Lucado warned.
“We wonder why the suicide rate has increased 24 percent since 1999. That’s an epidemic,” he said. “I know it’s a complex issue, and I don’t want to over simplify it, but part of the reason is, we’re dying for lack of hope. There’s just not hope. But if…
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