“The university system is geared toward destroying a biblical worldview, sometimes directly, most of the time indirectly,” he said.

The attack is “very blunt, very aggressive,” causing Christian students to want to hide the fact that they are Christians.

“I’m crying out for the young generation in this country, because they’re slipping away from us, and they’re slipping at a rapid pace,” he said.

“The consequences are more horrific than you or I can imagine. We may well look back in 10 years and wonder why we didn’t do anything.”

Speaker Frank Turek , author of “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist,” told the pastors that three out of four young people who go to church in high school drop out of church in college.

Turek said he asks atheists on college campuses whether they would become Christians if they knew Christianity were true.

They always shout back, “No,” he said, which proves that the problem is not in their heads; it’s in their hearts.

“There’s a moral issue going on.”