A couple of quotes that support your statements:
"[O]ur ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits."
-- Daniel Webster, American Jurist and Senator
"The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster." -- General Douglas MacArthur
"If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments." --G. K. Chesterton
I completely agree with your last post. Virtue and morality are essential for national survival, and those cannot be found outside of religious principle (and i don't mean islamic religious principle).
Agreed. If the people as a self regulating society cannot or will not for whatever reasons police or regulate themselves (as they should and have with general success until the 1960's), then as I like to say, "nature abhores a vacuum" and something will come in to fill that need. I'm not saying that what we have before was perfect but it did the job much better. I was listening to Glenn Beck (as I am now to his replays), he said one day, "we need to get back to the America we had under the 48 star flag."