Deception seems to be the name of the game. Many of the Jews in WWII Germany just thought they were going to take a nice shower. A person can be deceived by evil men and that doesn't make the victim evil. Mt 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. One can also be deceived into not caring for mankind. That was the condition of Sodom and Gomorrah -- not just that the practiced sodomy, but that she strengthened not the hand of the poor and needy, i.e. didn't help and didn't care. Just like many in America today. G~d apparently considers that a great evil because he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Fulness of bread is similar to rich and increased with goods here*:
Re 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods*, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
There's a fire coming.
Frankly, I see it the other way around. America is the most giving country on the face of the earth and gives away countless millions upon billions in both taxes and charitable contributions to faces they never see and problems they never hear about. Always, someone has a hand out and America is there to put something of value in it: food, clothes, money, toys for kids, education (such as it is), a job... MONEY...
Do Americans receive ANY thanks for their trouble. You might get a homeless man to thank you for the dollar, but the vast majority think it's their entitlement and wonder in astonishment why there isn't any more. America poured it's heart out to the victims of 9/11 and what have you heard in the wake of all that charitable giving? Squabbling over the MILLIONS being given to each family and the hands out EXPECTING more. ANd lawyers to back them up!
I'll tell you, there is one precious-yet-renewable resource that is being burned away faster than it can be restored: a kind and charitable heart.
Sodom and Gomorrah may have fallen because the hearts of it's wealthy were hard, but America may yet fall because the hearts of her "poor" were even harder. They have milk and honey running out their mouths and have the audacity to complain that their bellies hurt because they aren't full enough.