The life and trials of a growing Christian - Day One Hundred Sixty Eight

I know that I've written something about this before but it's something that's on my mind. Non-Christians always seem to think, and say that we are shoving our faith down their throats. I don't think that's the case at all. If anything, the secular world is ruthlessly shoving their disdain for and intolerance of Christianity down our throats. From the courthouse to the outhouse the the rights of Christians are slowly and quietly be taken away one by one. By the time a child finds them self in high school they are being ridiculed by students and teachers alike for any belief of or stands for God and when they get to collage they have been targeted so much and their minds so twisted that they don't know if they're coming or going and usually just walk away from the Lord all together. TV, movies, and music ridicule and belittle Christians on a regular basis and it's fine with the majority.
If I talk about Jesus to someone I'm somehow violating them but if they use the Lord's name in vein around me and I mention that it offends me I'm intruding on their 1st amendment right to free speech. If I'm offended by the way someone talks it's fine but if what I say cuts to the bone, I'm a religious fanatic, bigot, or whatever choice word a human-secularist has in store for me. The scales are tilting and tilting badly and quickly. If you don't believe me just look around the average church. The the number of fifty plusers outnumbers the younger parishioners by three or four to one. At that rate the number of Christians will have diminished  to a "controllable" level in no time and our slowly disappearing rights will quickly fade away and nobody will be able to do a thing about it.
We need to preach and teach the word of God to our children! From the time they are born to the time we die! We need to teach them why they believe what they believe and how to defend it! If we don't know ourselves, we need to dig into the bible and (extremely importantly) pray for wisdom and understanding. God will give it if we truly want it!