[JMJ333]

I would agree except that I believe the power of prayer and the strength of our God is so much more powerful than evil and wickededness. He will surely answer us in His time. And we must continue to stand up in the face of deviancy and bang the pots and pans for a return to morality--even if it gets us persecuted--because that is our obligation as followers of Christ. =)

[Aedammair]

Thanks for your reply, and of course you are absolutely right. Your words also helped to dispel that feeling of loss I mentioned.

[TomSmedley]

I would agree except that I believe the power of prayer and the strength of our God is so much more powerful than evil and wickededness.

As J.R.R. Tolkein, the definitive fablist of the bloody 20th century put it,

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No man can estimate what is really happening at the present sub specie aeternitatis. All we do know, and that to a large extent by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success -- in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in."

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[Kevin Curry]

I would agree except that I believe the power of prayer and the strength of our God is so much more powerful than evil and wickededness.

What is true on an individual level is not necessarily true on a societal level. God will allow a nation to go the direction its most influential choose to take it; where the less faithful will follow. Our most influential are leading this nation into vice-ridden anomie and Godless self-indulgence.

The most influential have also adopted an easy sort of liberal atheism that champions the nanny state as a God substitute. This god is tolerant of all wickedness and demands that everyone pay to support it. Indeed the most serious offense in such a society is judgmentalism.