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What happened was after the Moral Majority and its great success, for some reason many churches turned their backs on taking such stands. Christians were exhorted and sometimes falsely excoriated for being hateful. For example, many held strong stands against the practice of homosexuality until many in the church began to accuse others of being haters and warning that we should show love, which of course we should, but the inference was that Christians were being harsh and not like Jesus.

Many began to turn on those who opposed abortion calling on those who opposed to “tone it down”.

I believe many Christians were bludgeoned into a passive submission to be accepting and loving which was euphemistic for standing down and being passive in the face of sin. Many Christians got the message delivered from the many pulpits. Unwittingly combined with the work of the Left, Christians were shamed into thinking that they were, in fact, guilty of hating others when in fact they were just standing firm against the tenants of sin.

And here we (the church) is today completely flaccid and without any voice. Filled with fear that they will be accused and shamed for speaking out against the sins which have now absolutely consumed our culture.

Yesterday we were the guardians at the gate, then we were cowed into submission, in large part, due to many Christian leaders following the Moral Majority activism. And now? As a result of our complete pacifism we are awash in lasciviousness. Our daughters are sexualized beyond belief. Many celebrities owe most of their fame to doing an ongoing public strip tease to hold the public’s interest.

The festering cesspool of Hollywood seems to have been lanced, but we now realize that the what has been happening in Hollywood metastasized into our every day culture long ago.

So yeah, we were more robust at one time and there was divine success that went with it. Sadly, we were shamed by many in the pulpit to stand down and assimilate into the culture in order to save it. We assimilated all right, and we were completely co-opted by it as well. Now any who dare stand against it (Judge Moore, for example) are ridiculed as being absolute kooks who should be nowhere near the public square.

Unless something changes, our trajectory is not encouraging.