Others say it began in the 1960s during the counter-culture movement that was fueled by rebellion, hallucinogenic drugs, the sexual revolution and opposition to the war in Vietnam.
But America's true descent into the moral abyss began in the late 19th century. What was so significant about that time period?
That's when many American churches and their seminaries began rejecting the Bible as the literal word of God and instead, began importing humanistic ideas from liberal European seminaries.
Such as? Such as the erroneous belief that all religions are legitimate and lead to God. And some American churches also began embracing such humanistic concepts as psychology and Darwin's godless theory of evolution.
How did this translate into the American culture? By rendering the Bible incomplete as the ultimate source of spiritual truth; obsolete in its worldview and wrong in its assessment of human nature.
Thus, if the Bible was now viewed as only one source of spiritual truth, then spiritual truths could be acquired from other sources.
If the Bible was now considered obsolete in its view of the world, then new worldviews would have to be imported to enlighten the human mind.
And if the Bible was now considered wrong in its assessment of human nature, then the historical concepts of sin, rebellion and man's fall from God's grace would now have to be replaced by such concepts as psychoanalysis, emotional therapy and positive self esteem.
The rotten fruit of Christendom's abdication of the biblical worldview for a godless humanistic worldview began manifesting in the 1920s; a time known as the Roaring 20s when debauchery and hedonism spread across much of America like a deadly brush-fire.
Without biblical moral constraints, many folks plunged into excessive drinking, sex and drugs in their quest to create their own heaven on earth. Even worse, the children born into the post-Christian 1920s later became the parents of the hippies, flower-children, anarchists and potheads of the turbulent 1960s.
And so, America's transition from civility to chaos and moral decadence is directly related to her abandonment of God, the Bible and the Judeo-Christian worldview for a godless, secular worldview. And this is prophetic.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul warned that the last days on earth preceding the return of Jesus Christ would be exceedingly wicked because of the world's rejection of God. Here's what Paul wrote: But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
I think that many of us will agree that Paul's prophecy is now being fulfilled in the time we are living in.
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