“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams.
At what point would you say the immoral/irreligious became a majority in this country? My understanding is that the Baby Boomers and younger became the majority of the U.S. population around 1993. We’ve been running on fumes since then.
Some time in the eighties.
The 1880s.
Social religion can only hold things together so long.