How do you raise a good, upstanding child? With daily prayers, weekly church attendance and the knowledge of God

Reverend Billy Graham, the world famous television evangelist and founder and chairman of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has said that the reason the world seems to be in such dire straits is that children are not being raised right.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Graham, who has been preaching in the United States and the rest of the world for over 60 years-though he is now retired, said that "lawless and wicked age," and are being infused with the "philosophy of the Devil."

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"We have taken God out of our educational systems and thought we could get away with it," Graham said.

He blames decades of raising children in a Godless culture and education system as the root of most problems now occurring in the U.S. and the world.

"We have sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. We have laughed at God, religion and the Bible."

"Many Christian parents are becoming fearful that they cannot properly train their children in this lawless and wicked age," he continued.

"We are beginning to reap what has been sown for the past generation. We have taught the philosophy of the Devil, who says 'Do as you please.' Behaviorism has been the moral philosophy of much of our education in the past few years."

Compounding the problem is that many who are charged with teaching younger generations do not hold to the values of God, and are not instilling them in children, or are actively seeking to remove them.

"Many of our educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a moral code. Movies feature sex, sin, crime and alcohol. Teenagers see these things portrayed alluringly on the screen and decide to go and try them. Newspapers have played up crime and sex until they seem glamorous to our young people."

Graham, who has five children and 19 grandchildren, also said that parents need to kick the devil from their homes with discipline and moral teaching. They must set a good example and spend time with their children, and teach them to "know God."

"If you fail to discipline your children, you are breaking the laws, commandments and statutes of God," he said. "You are guilty not only of injuring the moral, spiritual and physical lives of your children, but of sinning against God. The Bible says that if you fail to discipline your children, you actually hate them."

The 96-year-old claims that it is easy to get children well behaved.

"Very seldom do parents have trouble with children when the Bible is read regularly in the home, grace is said at the table and family prayers take place daily. Most trouble with teenagers comes from children reared in homes where prayer is neglected, the Bible is never opened and church attendance is spasmodic. Christ gies the moral stability, understanding, wisdom and patience needed to rear children."

Graham claims an even more astounding figure. Weekly church attendance and daily prayer "will solve 90% of the problems you have with your children."

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