Posted on 07/25/2015 4:08:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Americans have become so “non-judgmental” that many people can no longer tell the difference between good and evil. We congratulate ourselves for being “nicer,” more sensitive and less prejudiced than past generations of Americans, but we don’t stop to consider how much more there is to morality than that. An America that isn’t full of good people won’t remain a good nation, nor will it remain strong and free over the long haul. Our country’s lack of morality has real consequences that are capable of eventually sinking us as a nation.
1) The Collapse Of Marriage: There used to be quite a bit of social stigma attached to getting a divorce or having a child out of wedlock. That’s no longer true and consequences for society have been horrific.
Although there is some dispute about the numbers, roughly 40% of marriages now end in divorce and “half of all children born to women under 30 in America now are illegitimate. Three in 10 white children are born out of wedlock, as are 53 percent of Hispanic babies and 73 percent of black babies.”
That’s important because children raised without a mother AND a father are statistically worse off in just about every area imaginable.
"Controlling for socioeconomic status, race, and place of residence, the strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison is that he was raised by a single parent. By 1996, 70 percent of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long-term sentences were raised by single mothers. Seventy-two percent of juvenile murderers and 60 percent of rapists come from single-mother homes. Seventy percent of teenage births, dropouts, suicides, runaways, juvenile delinquents, and child murderers involve children raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous and more likely to end up divorced. A 1990 study by the Progressive Policy Institute showed that after controlling for single motherhood, the difference between black and white crime rates disappeared.
Various studies have come up with slightly different numbers, but all the figures are grim. According to the Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, children from single-parent families account for 63 percent of all youth suicides, 70 percent of all teenage pregnancies, 71 percent of all adolescent chemical/substance abuse, 80 percent of all prison inmates, and 90 percent of all homeless and runaway children.
A study cited in the Village Voice produced similar numbers. It found that children brought up in single-mother homes ‘are five times more likely to commit suicide, nine times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape (for the boys), 20 times more likely to end up in prison, and 32 times more likely to run away from home.’ Single motherhood is like a farm team for future criminals and social outcasts."
Instead of trying to reverse the crippling damage being done to our country by the collapse of marriage, we’ve chosen to degrade it even further by allowing same sex unions, soon to be followed by polygamous unions that will degrade the institution ever further. If it’s true that marriage is the bedrock of society, then our nation’s house is built on sand.
2) Crime: Despite the fact that China and India have populations four times our size, it’s stunning that America has the largest prison population on Earth. Not coincidentally, America’s once sky-high crime rate dropped as massive numbers of criminals were locked away.
Bizarrely, many people talk about crime as if it’s divorced from morality. We hear about a supposed “rape culture,” school shootings, the “Knockout Game,” child abuse, etc., etc., etc. without making the obvious connection to morals. Good kids aren’t raping anybody, assaulting strangers to prove they’re tough or shooting up movie theaters unless they’re mentally ill.
Kids who are taught about good and evil, right and wrong, patriotism, chivalry and honor are going to make mistakes. A few of them will even turn out to be bad apples. However, full though our prisons may be, they are not full of God-fearing men. They’re full of people who are morally adrift.
3) Poor Government: America seems to be becoming progressively less governable and there are many reasons for that.Government has become too big to effectively manage, both parties have moved away from the center, gerrymandering has decreased the power of voters and increased the power of special interest groups – we could go on and on. Despite the fact that it’s seldom discussed, one of the biggest factors is the dishonesty of our own politicians.
How does that play a role? Well, it’s impossible to cut any kind of meaningful long-term deal on taxes, spending, immigration or any other big issue because neither party can be trusted to stick to a deal. Politicians lie to the voters, they lie to the other party and they even lie to their colleagues on the same side of the aisle.
Barack Obama’s signature piece of legislation, Obamacare, was entirely built on lies. Hillary Clinton has been caught lying more times than Pinocchio – and it’s not much different for the GOP leadership in Congress. Today, as I write this, Ted Cruz has stepped to the Senate floor to call out Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for lying to his own caucus.
On the one hand, it’s extraordinarily difficult to govern a nation without long term planning, but how do you plan for the future when no politician’s word means anything?
4) Dependence: Americans have traditionally been some of the most self-reliant people on the face of the earth. People used to be ashamed to be on the dole even if they felt like they had no other choice. Judging by the numbers we see today, that’s no longer true.
More than 1/3 of the population, 109 million Americans, are on welfare. That’s more people than there are in the four most populous states in America (California, Texas, New York and Florida) COMBINED. More than 45 million Americans are receiving food stamps. Nearly 11 million Americans, a number larger than the population of Greece, are on disability.
Does anyone care how many of these people are legitimately having hard times and need a little temporary assistance to get back on their feet versus how many are parasites who are looting the system? It certainly doesn’t seem like it. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of people who even feel bad about being on the dole either. In fact, it’s probably more of a social faux pas to suggest that people should feel bad about living off other people’s labor than it is to sponge off the taxpayers without regret. That’s why it’s not just an economic problem, it’s a moral problem and it’s one that is likely to get larger as a smaller and smaller share of workers are asked to shoulder the load for people who don’t work for a living.
5) Lack Of Civility And Manners: The great Samuel Adams once said, “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
Between the anonymity of the Internet, the crudity of much of modern music and TV along with our bad habit of rewarding every reality show star and jackass with 15 minutes of fame as long as they’re willing to go to any lengths to catch our attention, we’ve become a crass, rude and obnoxious culture.
We live in a country that often rewards sarcasm instead of wisdom, rudeness instead of insight and the squeaky wheel instead of the farsighted patriot. You’re more likely to get your way in America if you claim to be angry, offended or can just make enough noise on social media than if you’re plain old right. How well is that working out for our country?
And because th democrat party is responsible for all the above, they win elections.
The consequences of the moral collapse will be an economical collappe of the dollar. American exceptionalism will cease and the Lucas Paradox will be explained.
When America is brought down towards 3rd world status, the third world will start climbing up a notch. Eventually, the entire world will be one big unhappy place, which is managed by a global government, global economy, and global religion - just like the Good Book says.
ISIS will be God’s tool for final judgement, just as He had heathen nations discipline His people as told in the OT of that Good Book.
collappe = collapse
Bump
The lack of births is a huge issue; on top of that, I believe gender-selective abortion is here (and protected by law at this point). I have sons, and as they’ve graduated elementary school I’ve watched the administrators match up boys & girls for the procession - and consistently come up short on the female side (the last bunches are pairs of boys). 30 years ago when I was in that position my class was 3:2 boys to girls...
America is in huge trouble because our genuine freedom and liberty is under direct assault. Unless we can reverse this rapid trend (and a spiritual revival of great magnitude is the cure), we will cease to exist as a nation most of us would want to live in.
We won't be worrying about good people "longing to breathe free" flocking to America. They will stop coming and we will be trying to flee the place. The criminals and parasites will devour what is left of the corpse.
Really?
“Too bad that our younger generation will not understand it.”
The baby boomers are no longer young, and the baby boomers don’t understand it, or should we say “will not to” understand it. Our generation is running the show, and running it into the ground.
“For far too many people, the television has replaced the pulpit. Even if they attend church, what is an hour or two per week spent in church against the twenty or thirty hours spent watching TV?”
I’ve been saying for many many years that television and now any form of media from the tower of babel internet, iPads, smart phones to 60 inch LED TVs are the equivalent of what John saw in the Book of Revelation as ‘images that both move and speak’ and give power to the ‘beast’ government.
Because these all in fact do give that power, (we better have the appearance of some vain bottoxed movie star or support evil if we want airplay and votes) why do we always think what John saw requires some futuristic star wars 3D style imagery broadcast across the sky by the ‘prince of the power of the air’ when in reality it already is that anyway,
How many of us have ever actually seen that demonic obama in person and yet with the MSM and the constant flow of halos from their puffed up imagery surrounding him, this nation sees no problem with his lawless rule, we’re now led by charm or by offense and no one in that space or having a loud voice in that same place will ever question it for long or else their images will be cutoff when they do,
This very real and tangible power of broadcast sound and imagery did not exist on the Earth until our day,
Antichrist is called ‘lawless’ and even Hitler was not lawless, everything that Hitler did had a law to enable that demonic evil, not so in this day, you only need to have the constant barrage of big screen TV images with sycophantic commentary overlaid across an attractive smile to provide you all the authority and power to rule over a people no matter how despotic you are or how much gruel you force them to eat, you just have to control those images to be popular on the TV and to make evil to be called good,
I believe we’re seeing Isaiah Chapter 5 and Romans Chapter 1 happening right now in America, that is believers have no place left to stand alone with God in all the earth, where the all powerful state must first approve the message and where our nations leaders are daily doing those things ‘not convenient’ this is how they are making stupefyingly bad laws that no one in their right understanding would ever think helps the very people their sworn to serve and protect and defend,
Its because we’ve become a nation of reprobates and this is what naturally follows as we go down that path.
We are in evil times today and recall that Jesus said even the ‘very elect’ would be deceived if it were possible, I believe its this imagery of TV that plays a big part in that deception, its not something that’s coming, its already here,
bkmk
Associated with a peoples moral collapse is a shift from a Republic to an Imperial form of government.(See Rome)
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The culture of mendacity is but a small part of the ungovernability of modern America. A bigger part, perhaps, is the dissolution of the family: a nation of single moms and criminal dads requires a nanny government with its schools, daycare, prisoncare, healthcare and pension plans. A nation of working and godly families needs none of that.
In any case, America is done. When can we start over?
Precisely so, your #18.
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