The biggest problem facing America isn’t global warming, health care, tax reform, or even the war on terror. It’s moral pollution!
We have regressed into a country of consumers fueled by our shallow morals. We are caught up in the race to see who can keep up with the jones’. We have to have the newest, the best, most expensive thing out.
We exaggerate our accomplishment and spin our failures. We have become a country of half truths.
We have allowed our role models to become drug addicted actors, cheating athletes, and money hungry businessmen. We pay more attention to a celebrity DUI, then we do to the hero’s in our own cities serving their neighbors.
We have made calling people to repentance “hate speech”, and by making the gospel politically correct, we have handcuffed the one thing that could actually change our nation.
We have censored, fined, or banned anyone who doesn’t repeat the national talking points.
We are filling our bodies with high fructose corn syrup, filling our minds with gossip trash, filling our homes with glittery widgets and fancy gadgets, and filling our souls with despair.
We are becoming what we consume!
December 22, 2007 at 6:01 am
These are all problems, indeed, but what underlies the sickness? Do you believe that the moral pollution is a symptom of a larger cause, or is it the cause itself?
December 22, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Well, I think it’s more complex then I know. So if I had to simplify the answer, I’d say it’s the loss of our identity in God.
We are slowly drifting away from God, morally and spiritually. It what Hebrews 2 warns believers about.
I certainly am not an expert though, I just can’t pretend like there isn’t a problem.
Does anyone else see the moral breakdown I do?
December 22, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I don’t remember the last time I went to the mall, and then when I was there last night I wanted to puke just watching people walk around throwing money around on unnecessary junk and overpriced clothing. I had to get out of there.
December 23, 2007 at 1:03 am
Simplicity! It’s so truthful! I think you nailed it, Nic. When we are secure in our identity as God’s children, we realize that all Good gifts come from Him. The moral breakdown, the focus on materialism, the blatant worship of sex and images (ironically, even the computer I’m writing on and the internet that allows it) hold great potential to rival God. Well, the thing is, they don’t *really* rival Him – they just *appear* to do so.
So, yeah. I think you’re right. We use all these other things as gods, but none of them are capable of creating or sustaining Life. When we focus on them, we lose our identities as God’s children.
Very good, fellas.
Blessings and Merry Christmas!
Robaigh
December 23, 2007 at 5:20 am
Consumerism is eating at our souls. I went to a mall today. Mostly to show off my support for Ron Paul. I walked around, didn’t buy anything and like the person above said, I too wanted to puke. People are so image based, many have lost any depth they may have had once before. But I see it in churches too. Good people, believing Christians who compromise. They adjust their lives to keep culturally relavent and to maintain their beliefs at the same time. I think the net effect is that it is eroding at even Christians core beliefs. Very sad!
November 18, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Moral corruption or the act of ‘Keeping up with the Jones’s’ is what America is. However, the real problem lies in the fact that people instinctively don’t know when to say when. In other words– greed. Unfortunately, greed is fueled by the media, television, and advertising– other aspects that define America. Now religious folk, like the ones featured on here, feel God is the solution. Not true. God is merely deferred greed… in respect to His love. I’m not saying this is completely wrong, but to merely substitute one addiction for another isn’t a solution at all.
So I propose discipline. Discipline and tolerance– The New America!
December 30, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Theres plenty of other huge problems facing america right now,(the most immediate and threatning one bieng our debt)the biggest one i can see that effects all the other problems is our obscenely morally deformed school system,it carves people into what they are today and truly influences just about everything.The society we create for kids is horrifyingly terrible from an outsiders point of view,its kill or be killed inside public schools.All morals are flawed by the way.This problem would be the easiest out of all the others to fix I assume but I wont get ahead of myself.I assure you though,if this problem goes unanswered within the next century then aremica shall collapse.
December 30, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Yep great points. I agree.
Though I would add why is it that we have found ourselves in so much debt?
Because we have believed we could live lifestyles that were completely unsustainable.
Because we live in a disposable culture.
I would track that back to morals. The decay in a societies morals and ethics is followed by empires collapsing.