The charted curve of America’s moral and spiritual decline for the past sixty years has been a straight line downward at no less than forty-five degrees.
This from frontpagemag.com.
If anything positive were to be said about this moral and spiritual demise of our beloved country, persistence, consistency, and determination of the left provide an apt summation.
Two recent examples confirm we are now in a moral freefall:
The first is Obiden’s proclamation that March 31, which this year falls on Resurrection (Easter) Sunday, is now “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
This is not simply a poorly timed announcement as KJP has offered.
It is not even a slap in the face. It is a kick below the belt accompanied by a laugh and a smile. It is as insulting as it is perverse, no matter how much we care for our trans-identified friends and colleagues and want them to experience wholeness and freedom in the Lord.
The second example is a post by Baptist leader William Wolfe, contrasting this pretendant announcement, which was made on Good Friday, with Good Friday, 1956:
Good Friday, 1956: Three crosses on the NYC Skyline
Good Friday, 2024: The White House celebrates ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’
America didn’t become ‘less religious.’
We just traded Christianity and the cross for the religion of LGBTQIA+ and the rainbow flag.
This prompted David Limbaugh to repost Wolfe’s post with the comment:
Is it fair to say that we are now a full-blown pagan society?
Yes, it is quite fair—at least for those celebrating the Obiden proclamation and for the symbolic significance of this act, emanating from the White House itself.
Of course, this twisted trend (in the name of compassion and, at times, ‘Christian’ love) is nothing new. That’s why, in February 2020, Dr. Michael Brown wrote an article titled, As We Mindlessly Careen Our Way Down the Slippery Slope.
The article began with these words:
Is anyone surprised that HGTV recently featured its first ‘throuple,’ in this case, a man and two women? But what else should we expect?
This is the inevitable direction of our society’s slippery slide down. The avalanche goes downward, not upward.
In that regard, we have been in moral freefall for many years, with Christian philosophers like Francis Schaeffer calling America a “post-Christian nation” over 50 years ago.
As noted by Elliot Clark in December 2020:
Yes, back in 1970, Schaeffer says the United States—not just continental Europe—was already post-Christian.
He writes about the reality of historic Christianity becoming the minority in the West, stripped of cultural power and influence.
(Schaeffer also had this prescient warning: in this situation, Schaeffer identifies a great danger for evangelicals: taking sides with political elites in order to retain comfort, affluence, and personal peace. In the face of societal chaos and upheaval, Schaeffer doesn’t want Christians to compromise for the sake of short-lived comfort.)
So, to repeat:
[W]e have been in spiritual and moral and cultural decline for decades, despite, as noted above, some positive developments in the midst of the decay.
And it is true that, back in 1944, 9 years before the first edition of Playboy was published, Rev. Peter Marshall declared:
Surely the time has come, because the hour is late, when we must decide. And the choice before us is plain—Yahweh or Baal. Christ or chaos. Conviction or compromise. Discipline or disintegration.
Similarly, in 1959, Prof. Robert Coleman proclaimed:
In a day when unprecedented numbers of people have a form of religion while at the same time the church seems unable to stem the rising tide of degeneracy that threatens the land, the question must be raised: Why this paradox?
Should not the church have influence for righteousness in proportion to her numbers?
However one may seek to answer this question, it is obvious that what we need is not more religion, but more power. In short, we need real revival!
But, of course, we can go back in time and find similar, thunderous warnings. After all, the first Great Awakening, which presupposed a great falling way, took place in the 1730s and 1740s:
[A]t a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale.
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The result was a renewed dedication toward religion.
And without any further moral and spiritual decline as a nation, We the People already have much clean-up busywork ahead of us:
– Drag queens reading to toddlers with the enthusiastic support of the American Library Association,
– Thirteen-year-old girls having their healthy breasts removed and 11-year-old boys getting chemically castrated because of short-lived struggles with their gender identity,
– Radical feminists launching a ‘Shout Your Abortion movement, and
– Christians being canceled because they dare to hold to their biblically based values in public.
This really is a revival or die situation:
A return to the Lord with all our hearts and all our souls, repenting of our own sins, and accepting of the word and direction of God as a checklist for conducting ourselves more appropriately, more in line with what is best for society, at a minimum.
And to pray, “Lord, let the awakening start with me!”
The ‘My way or the highway’ philosophy
has us all at odds with one another.
Final thoughts: There have been some genuine revival movements along with some holy pushback against the growing cultural insanity. Not all is doom and gloom. There is hope and there is a Plan.
God speed to Conservatism and God speed to President Trump. May God keep him safe and vibrant.
