Is the "moral decay" of our country the fault of the Godless or the Godly?

Question

If Christians and churches were truly doing what they were called to do, think of the difference it would make in this world.

Churches are to help the hungry, poor, orphaned and widows...however, how much time, effort, energy and money is spent on raising funds to build bigger, better more expensive buildings...is this of God?

If that much effort/money was put into caring for the less-fortunate, what kind of change would that have on the world?

Isn't most crime a result of poverty
Isn't most teenage pregnancy the result of poor education.

The ills of our society is a result of people not having purpose or meaning in their life....

The ills of our society can be a result of people not having their basic needs met, not having positive role models, etc...

With the number of people in the country that identify themselves as Christians, why is their need and want? There are plenty of "Christians" that if acting God-like, could make a huge difference.

Your thoughts?

Answer 1

"Moral Decay" is a myth. Ask yourself, when were things better?
In the 80's when there were race riots?
In the 70's when the glass ceiling was in full effect?
In the 60's when there were still Jim Crow laws in the south?
In the 50's with the McCarthyism witch hunts and actual laws promoting segregation?
How about the 40's when American citizens of Japanese descent were sent to internment camps?
The 30's, when anti-semitism was accepted?
The 20's, when women finally got the right to vote?

Etc etc...so on, and so forth, back through history, to the Civil War and prior. I will remind you that the confederate states identified their right to own slaves as defined in the Bible.

Things are a lot better today than they were, and things will continue to improve unless we return to "traditional" values. I'll take today's values, thank you very much.

Answer 2

I am a Christian,as i have said before! I fall short each and every day.I try to live my life right.I do my own hair,instead of $70 at a parlor,i don't wear a bunch of fine clothes or jewerly.i haven't had sex in about 5years now.i have helped my own family members and i have given relatives a place to stay.and i have found out how hard it can be to help someone by turning them down. i go to church (it's a building) where people meet to gather strength for the next week of obstacles we will face.Everyone else who comes ,they have problems,also.Alot of our budget,goes to childrens activities and ministries.Some we've never seen there parents come.Churches are vunerable to being used. Saying "yes",all the time ,no matter what.Can be just as much a sin as saying "no".We can give out food boxes,find tired travelors hotel stay and offer to fix their cars.Help when your house is burnt down,visit sick in the hospital.But until community realizes the church needs us all to work together.Alot of people get burnt out on church,but don't get burnt out on God! We will never ,ever be perfect! But,if we are out there making mistakes .Hopefully, someone will help us get back on the right track.With some loving truth! I've had church members hurt my feelings .But ,I still love them! And I've had forgiveness myself!

Answer 3

John Adams, as president, wanted to close down opposition. It replaced into the worst political decision he made. It overshadowed all the coolest he did as president and he replaced into not elected for a 2nd term. The administration is upset with the aid of fact this memo have been given out. i'm upset that this memo replaced into ever allotted to regulation enforcement businesses. that isn't the 1st time one in all those nonsense has got here approximately. And that is not constrained to the Democrats. even though it particularly is a danger to our freedoms and that i'm hoping it backfires in this president. I even have so plenty extra appreciate for John Adams.

Answer 4

right now i would have to say godly people.

we have televangelists doing drugs and preaching gay is wrong and then having same sex relationships.

we have a man elected based on the fact he said he was a born again christian starting wars with people for no reason. that war is now a holy civil war go figure.

we have heads of churches complaining because they don't get paid that much to be a preacher all day but then we have some preists that do what everyone else does and goes to work for a living.

we are finding churches where people committed murder and became a preist to hide and have followers for years.

we have preists raping boys because they can't have sex with girls and for some reason that's supposed to be ok.

we have a new catholic priest that has no problem criticizing other beliefs when he's supposed to be bringign all people together.

we have curch organizations pushing to reject a group of people that they don't agree with but then they go to the church and preach to love thy neighbor.

i could go on but i think i gave you enough for your answer

Answer 5

easy...go back to 1950....then go to 1960....you can see the divide in the Americas...take out the moron racists and segregationists of the 50's and you have a much better country that i wish still existed....the 60's brought us so much!
1) drug culture
2) sex perv culture, who needs parents?
the 70's brought the beginning of the commie doctrine of separation of church and state and the infiltration of the courts and legislatures with the left over drug and sex addicts of the 60's. they've been very adept at brainwashing an entire generation of people into evolution and sexual depravity and hate America....

schools in the 50's? no rapes, murders, drive bys etc..on campus'...they had SHOOTING clubs on school campus....wow guns on campus and nobody went on a shooting spree! there was no pro-drugs and abortion and hate America segment of the teaching population and school administrators....as there is now.....hmmm which is the better America?
christians can only do so much when we have so much stacked against us....why the homeschool movement needs to be taken to the next level. public re-education camps...errr schools are the main line in the fight against America so schools should be the main line in the fight FOR America....is it any wonder homeschoolers continually win educational based competitions?

knightzero? Atheists lowest crime and divorce rates??!!! HUH? WUH??? lol...that's comedy....based on anything other than your commie propaganda? high larry ous....in a pathetic way of course. yeah those dastardly christians are doing those drive bys in gangland daily! all those car jackings too...man those christians must be desparate....putz.

Answer 6

If you see 'moral decay' in the world, does that not have more to do with your viewpoint than what the world is really about?

if you see a field full of flowers, and bees running around, and its a nice sunny day, and all you can think about is a rusty can lying there, what is the real problem? The rusty can, or your inability to see it as a part os something else, even perhaps as something ugly but terrible that you could do something about, if only you had stopped to pick it up and take it to someone who recycles them.

Answer 7

I really believe that you can not blame the mishaps of our society on either one. The deeds that are done are due to the thoughts of the minds of people. Now a days the beliefs are a sort of second state of mind instead of being the main way of living. So really if you are a Christian or not, you are going to mess something up because you want to.

Answer 8

Neither. Poverty and ignorance are the problems. The conservatives want to teach junk science, the liberals want to dumb things down because they think some people aren't up to the challenge and need a "break," and the impovershed with no way out do desperate things.

yeah.... what you said.

Edit: and I agree with the person who said moral decay is a myth.

Edit to the person below: no rapes? Yeah... and if there was one, it was her fault. The 50s and 60s had PLENTY of violence and depravity. No one bothered to report on it unless it took place in Leave It TO Beaver's back yard. No one gave a poop about what happened in the poverty stricken neighbourhoods.

Answer 9

Very well thought out. All organized religions, that have buildings, are about 3 things; money power and control. I went to my, then 4 yr old, sons catechism class, of all the decorations on the wall, there was only one word "OBEY". Not love, charity, friendship, kindness, joy, etc.. Just "OBEY"

Answer 10

Neither. Those who worship false Gods such as power and money are the biggest problem. Sadly that means most of the politicians who run this world for satan rather then Jesus Christ.