In my quest to discern the causation of the relatively recent decline in American unity, and the ruthless division between the citizenry that now identifies each American by political belief, rather than being a fellow comrade of the same country, I believe I am much closer to a definitive answer.
As a Believer in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I have read, and been brought up steeped in the Word's of our Creator from the Bible. I find the Holy Bible to be the most concise work on Earth describing human behavior, and providing the cure for it's ills, along with instructions how to live it to the fullest as we prepare for the afterlife with The Almighty. It is there I have found what I believe is the explanation why we are headed south as a country.
In a word, Godlessness. Allow me to explain.
Try as some may to refute, or revise the notion, we are a Godly nation, or at least have the roots of being one. The evidences are too overwhelming, and undeniable to those that know, and understand history. The further we travel back in time historically, the more we find how adherent the populace was to Godly morality, and ethical behavior.
There are many examples, but for the sake of blog size and reader attention, I will stick to one example to bolster my case...
God's Word is replete with commands, and instructions how to live a life pleasing to God. The ten commandments begin with a statement, and two commands that we are to worship God, and Him alone. The same list of commands end with the last three commanding us not to "covet".
The beginning and ending of the commandments illustrate how Godly living should start, and the results of a non Godly lifestyle ends, and not to wind up that way. Covetousness is the result of self worship, or selfishness, being self centered, or putting self ahead of anything else. You get the picture. God knows, left to our own means we are creatures of vain glory, or lovers of self. God began His commandments to the Israelites by stating up front He Was God, and Him only, beside Him, there was no other. Then He commands us not to have or worship any idols, or graven images.
If we choose to not acknowledge God as number one in our lives we are effectively putting our will above His, and in many cases make us, or our wishes our "idol". When our every wish becomes our only focus, we seek to do our own bidding always which leads ultimately to greed, or covetousness. We may protest and say we seek to help others regularly, but as unGodly people, we do so primarily under our terms, at our convenience, and most times to make us feel better about ourselves.
Having said all that, I believe the same quandary belongs to modern day America. As we as a nation decide to remove God from our governing institutions, and turn our faces from Him as a people, we begin to worship self, and become covetous. No more glaring example can be seen than by observing the Marxist, or socialist propaganda that seeks to pit American, against American, and begins by separating people into classes of wealth, except (of course) those in government, apparently they get immunity, as they are the arbiters of said collectivism.
Socialism/Communism has always carried the stigma of active anti-God sympathies. The ideology replaces the wisdom of God, with man's wisdom, and worships it supreme, and ridicules things of God, and His followers.
I know this must sound condescending and smug, but my intention is nothing of the sort, I am simply outlining the human condition, and it left to it's own resources apart from the Almighty. Believe me when I say, I too am afflicted with the battles of the flesh, the only difference being as a Believer, I am not a slave to them, and more importantly in God's Eyes, I am sanctified, and forgiven, not by my own doing, but by Faith in Christ Jesus.
But I digress, the self centeredness of a life absent of Godly living, and a belief in God produces exactly what I think would describe the problem in our culture today. Selfishness will not tolerate opinions of others, and believes it's own views are the only relevant beliefs. Coveting other's wealth, lifestyle, and societal position are symptoms as well.
The blurred lines between the sexes and sexual partnership are a result of open rebellion toward God, the Apostle Paul wrote extensively to the church at Rome in the 1st chapter of the perils of rejecting God, and the resulting sexual deviancy that His "turning them over to their sinful desires" resulted in.
The sexual revolution of the 1960's, and the homosexual revolution of the 1980's, and 90's were precursors to the trans-sexual revolution of the early 21st century, with the acceptance of pedophilia not far behind further prove Paul's point that rejecting God brings a seared conscious, and a reprobate mind is demonstrated in the sexual deviancy that is so pervasive in our land today.
We Americans have perfected the art of dodging self responsibility while solidifying the ability to carry out sin with no societal impunity. Sigmund Freud popularized the notion that our bad behavior, and the results we reap are not our fault, but were our parents fault. Others have built on the idea by including things like alcoholism, obesity, and homosexuality as being a disease, or a matter of genetics.
The Bible is clear the roots sin (disobedience to God) always come from within man, not of external forces. (Mark 7:21-23) So again, like a book we humans can be read easily by our actions with, or without allegiance to God.
The Godly life marked by selfless attitudes due to a Christ-centered lifestyle, and the Godless life, replacing God Almighty with self as god of our lives, and the resulting selfishness, and anger when we don't get our way.
The answer to return our fair land to it's original healthy state is to turn our face as a nation to God, and return to following our Constitution that was so brilliantly set up to keep our land free, and guarantee us never being subject to tyrannical powers so long as we follow it's laws.
