We’ve been pushing Jesus out of our culture for over 55 years. Some people will never understand that His divine protection is the only thing keeping them alive.
Folks had better wake up!
God has a way of pressing the lessons.
I would estimate that having jihadist Islam as an enemy is a rather stark way of putting the lessons, once we get spiritually on the ball again.
One thing, a bunch of churches nominally talking about Jesus won’t help.
I’d argue paradoxically that having a weaker presentation of Jesus in official “government led” culture might be a blessing in disguise. The churches now KNOW they can’t coast. A few years ago I got a reminder of this when a Baptist church I had visited passed out a copy of a letter from FDR it had received many decades back, begging for Social Security law support. Now for a church that’s pretty cheap and easy to do. No skin in it taxwise, and a lighter charity load... what earthly person would refuse? But we aren’t supposed to be earthly. We’re supposed to be pedal to the metal invested in heaven.
I like to joke, and maybe it isn’t even a joke, that if kids were even as dedicated to God as to “Frozen” going into schools, we wouldn’t have a problem with God not being in schools. Atheistic administrators would be complaining they could not get God out with a crow bar. A few parents are getting a clue now, with private praise players for kids... this is not rocket science but it is rocket powered theology.