[The decay begins when govt gets into the business of your day to day life, beginning with charity.]
The decay began when the church lost is savor.
MATTHEW 5:13
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
The decay began when someone had the bright idea that man needed to be governed and not left to his own devices.
Their are two and only two things that man needs to survive. Liberty and Faith.