The Yellow Brick Road to Gehenna

Is America a dying nation?

Why has the Christian church in America been on a long losing streak for the past 50 years? Because it has failed to "contend for the faith" (Jude 1:3) by keeping itself pure and separate from the world.

Beginning in 1962 when the U.S. Supreme Court (Engel v. Vitale) ruled that prayer in public schools violated the so-called establishment clause of the First Amendment, Christianity in America has been on a steady, downward spiral.

Just one year later in 1963, America's highest court declared that school-sanctioned bible-readings were also unconstitutional. (Abington School District v. Schempp)

And in 1973, the Supreme Court legalized infanticide with its landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The Court ruled that a woman had a right to an abortion until fetal viability, or until a "fetus" was capable of surviving on its own outside the uterus.

Just recently, the Court ruled DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) unconstitutional which means that gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal must receive the same federal health, tax, Social Security and other benefits that heterosexual couples receive. It also opens the door for same-sex marriage to eventually become legal in all 50 states.

America's Christians have been trying to fight these battles in the courts when they should have been fighting them in their communities. When you try to legislate biblical morality through the judicial system rather than impress it upon the world by keeping the faith relevant, you lose--every time.

The very fact that American conservatives and Christians are trying to stave off the moral collapse of their nation via litigation means that they have already lost the battle.

When the battle for the moral soul of America is being fought in courtrooms instead of in the streets, then even the victories--as few as they have been lately--are hollow and temporary. Remember California Proposition 8? That was passed by the California state legislature in 2008 to protect traditional marriage. It was ruled unconstitutional by a federal court in 2010 and by the Supreme Court on June 26, 2013.

Had America's churches not grown lazy and comfortable with the world over 50 years ago, they would've realized that the devil never takes a vacation. He's busy at work planting the seeds of corruption in the hearts of young, impressionable people.

We have had three generations of Americans grow up on godless humanism, believing that they're nothing more than the end products of random evolutionary forces. And though the bible contains more than enough evidence to refute the lies of Darwinian evolution, many churches have been asleep at the proverbial switch. It's no wonder why many young people in America now view Christianity with contempt and disdain. Because the Christian church in America has made itself irrelevant.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul gave the early churches he visited this command: "Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry." (2 Timothy 3:2-5)

Had Christian churches in America paid attention to Paul and put his words into practice, we wouldn't be witnessing the complete moral collapse of America. Sadly, we are.