[Taliesan]

bad news for the culture becomes good news for the Christian, since it’s seen as hastening Christ’s return.

I've been in fundamentalist churches all my life and I've never met a person who thought that bad news "hastens Christ's return". And I've known some ignorant, illiterate Christians.

[Buggman]

Just the opposite, in fact: The Bible teaches that Christ's return is not predicated on things getting really bad, but on the completion of the Great Commission and the full number of the Gentiles being brought into His Body. A fallen culture (for which the blame can in fact be laid at the feet of the lukewarm pulpits found in most churches) in the West could be seen to slow those fulfillments down rather than speeding them up.

Of course, ultimately Christ will come when He wills, not when we try to get Him to. While I believe that the time is near for various reasons, the disintegration of America's Christian culture (which seems to be slowing finally) is not really one of them.