Good luck with a tax base consisting of the black welfare class, illegal immigrants, and a fruit-basketcase of urban liberals. I’m sure you can get them to pay up on time and in full, as well as behave themselves well enough that they don’t need to be babysat like toddlers.
Equally good luck with and the next ‘generation’ being ‘raised’ by an increasingly disparate bunch of people whose only claim to parenthood was neglecting to use birth control or dillydallying too long to get an early-stage abortion.
Well, one thing we know is that one can’t baptize the USA into Christ. It has to get there one soul, one acceptance, at a time. And straying Christians have to be corrected one soul at a time.
I guess I am simple minded. Like a child coming into the kingdom would be. I don’t want to jawbone about theory for the intellectual satisfaction of it, or the moral feeling of being better than all those sinners. I just want to see, and share, what can be done to help spread goodness and displace evil.
The wickedness is a symptom of an issue of eternal dimensions. I don’t want a civic Christ to save public morals. I want an “everything” Christ to save souls to heaven, and if public morals improve as a result (and I’d hope they would)... it will be a wonderful testimony to God’s grace.