hell’s handmaiden

I have a few answers.

Noting a recent survey which reports that “91 percent of American adults surveyed believe in God”, LittleOleLady asks, among other things:

“WHY are we seeing such moral decay in this nation?“

The short answer is that belief in God has precious little to do with morality, per se, despite myths to the contrary. Dig around in history a little and it isn’t hard to see why I say so. Humans have never been especially moral, no matter who they were or what God happened to be fashionable at the time. We’ve always been a vicious violent lot. We’ve always had thieves, liars, and psychopaths. We’ve always had those favorite scapegoats for moral decay; homosexuals, prostitutes and abortion or outright infanticide.