There’s a huge piece of me that believes everything you just wrote, Wm.
At the same time, 2 things draw my attention:
1. The Grace of God. For, “Where iniquity doth abound, grace doth much more abound.”
2. The fury of the attack by the powers and principalities against Christians can only mean that they sense that through Christ we are still very, very dangerous.
Is their hatred driven by an understanding that we are on a better path, or by a sense of superiority. I think there is no doubt that Satan understands we are very dangerous. He knows because when we call on the LORD he is powerless. However Satan has his "useful idiots". I think the socialists fall into that category. The socialists are convinced that Christians are just "ignorant".
In the end these "useful idiots" will stand before Jesus at the White Throne and will see who was the idiot. We share The Gospel, but these useful idiots don't understand why. They only see the change in Born Again Christians and don't want to give up their way of life.Thankfully the LORD will wipe away our tears because we don't want to see anyone lost for eternity.
My observation: The children of that generation have not had one yet, and have mostly defected. Leftists have separated them from their parents, and succeeded in winning their hearts and minds.
As a generation (not everyone, but this is generally so), we failed to pass the torch to our children, failed to defend them from the evangelical secular left, failed to pass on our values.