MORAL DECLINE IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA ...

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MORAL DECLINE IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA

The consequences of discarding a sacred moral code to govern the actions of individuals are far graver than most people realize.

Why do nations fall? The greatest empires of the past, down to the last one, have each collapsed. Why? Is every civilization destined to decline and fall? Or is such a catastrophic disaster the effect of a specific cause?

Historians attribute the collapse of various civilizations to disease, demographics, political corruption, mass immigration, economic stagnation, climate change, inferior technology and/or foreign invasion. But are weapons, applied sciences and jobs the way to make a civilization invincible? Many people today apparently think so.

Could America fall? Could Britain fall? Or are our societies too modern, too sophisticated, too enlightened for such a cataclysm?

The Trumpet newsmagazine’s predecessor, the Plain Truth, began publishing in 1934 the forecast that Britain and America would experience a collapse more devastating than the fall of Rome. The longest-standing and most consistent forecast the Trumpet has made since Volume 1, Issue 2, in June 1990, has been that America and Britain will fall, and that the fundamental cause will not be birth rates, weather phenomena, superbug epidemics, gross domestic product or carrier strike groups. Fundamentally, it will be because America and Britain have rejected the foundation of national stability: the biblical statutes, judgments and laws.

There is a tremendous amount of evidence behind this forecast. Most compelling and formidable are the many prophecies in the Bible that speak about lawlessness and immorality, and its consequences, many of which are directly aimed at the modern-day nations of America and Britain. We will discuss a few of these later in this report.

But even to the individual not yet convinced of the veracity of biblical prophecy, even secular history sounds a clarion warning about the grave dangers that accompany national moral decline.

Timeline: Moral Decline in Britain and America

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America and Britain’s Moral History

In the early modern period, the United States and Britain were growing in power on the world scene. Against that backdrop, many great statesmen debated the root cause behind the rise and fall of empires.

A year before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, Edward Gibbon published the final volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon identified five major causes behind the fall of one of history’s greatest empires. Declining demographics didn’t make the list. Nor did insufficient technology or climate change. His first fundamental factor was the breakdown of the family. Then he listed increased taxation, an insatiable craving for pleasure, an unsustainable buildup of armaments, and the decay of religion.

According to Gibbon, the root cause of Roman societal collapse was their loss of civic virtueand individual morality. Gibbon believed the laws of morality were as unchanging as the laws of mathematics and physics.

“All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” —Edmund Burke

English statesman Edmund Burke, a colleague of Gibbon’s, is often called the father of modern conservatism. He summarized his beliefs about morality in a letter to the sheriffs of Bristol in 1777: “All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”

The first president of the United States was also familiar with Gibbon. George Washington owned a copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In his famous Farewell Address, Washington said, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”

Gibbon, Burke and Washington believed that the safeguards of society were not military legions or productive merchants or prosperous consumers but high moralsand sincere religion. Yet most politicians and educators today reject this belief. They say that what people do in the privacy of their own homes has no connection to national security.

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” —George Washington

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Religion and Morality

During the sexual revolution of the 1960s, a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States said it was impossible to define character. That was a radical departure from what prior generations believed. They knew what character meant: It meant things like honoring your parents, not murdering, not stealing, not lying, not coveting and not committing adultery.

In short, it meant keeping the Ten Commandments, the laws of the Bible.

There is a cause for every effect. The 10 laws outlined in these commandments cause political prosperity. At least, that is what America’s second president believed. John Adams wrote in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, “The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion.”

During the 18th century, the United States and British Empire were, generally speaking, religious. Of course, the people of these rising powers were full of failures, flaws and vices. Lying, coveting, stealing, killing and every other sin could be found among them. But society as a whole held its citizens, its families and its leaders to a high moral standard—the moral standard of the Holy Bible. And many of them believed that only if a majority of their families were God-fearing, obedient and faithful could their nations survive.

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