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 Key to Continuation of Civilization Your listening to Religious Expressions with Michael Hogue. This is podcast number 2. Hello friends. Joseph Wirthlin once shared an experience from his military fighter pilot training... Decades ago Dr. Kenneth McFarland summarized the opinions of noted historians Edward Gibbon, Arnold Toynbee, and Will Durant. Even though each historian lived in a different century, their conclusions were in unanimous agreement with one another, in their conclusions about what led to the fall of every great civilization of the world, in all recorded history. McFarland noted six social/cultural shifts that always take place: They lost their religious convictions and flouted basic morality. They became obsessed with sex. They debased their money of its intrinsic value and let inflation run rampant. Honest work ceased to be a virtue. Respect for law disintegrated and violence became an accepted method of achieving individual and group desires. Finally, citizens were no longer willing to be soldiers and fight for the defense of their nation and heritage Dr. Kenneth McFarland speech, “Bicentennial America’s Opportunity”. Given at Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, at the National Convention of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. Do we see any signs that America, as a whole, has lost religious convictions? In recent news was noted numerous lawsuits in which churches sued government entities for unfairly restricting citizens’ rights to attend worship services while placing no similar restriction on other types of civil activities – most severely the right to protest. To this, David Bednar responded: “While believers and their religious organizations must be good citizens in a time of crisis, never again can we allow government officials to treat the exercise of religion as simply nonessential. Never again must the fundamental right to worship God be trivialized below the ability to buy gasoline” https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/bednar-covid-19-pandemic-religious-freedom (https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/bednar-covid-19-pandemic-religious-freedom). Do we see any signs that Americans have become obsessed with sex? In short, the answer is indisputably “yes”. Do we see excessive inflation with money losing it’s value? From my personal observations, this seems to be the case. In my short lifetime I have seen the value of the average home raise by a factor of 10 to 15 times the cost of homes when I was a child. In the area where I live, I have seen in just a few years, the cost of the average home literally double. Paper money used to be backed by precious metals, but this has not been the case for a very long time. Any time there is a financial need, our country increases its debt. The percentage of people who maintain savings is very low across the board, with only a small portion of the population saving more than 15% of their income. People live on debt more than they ever have, turning yesterday’s luxuries into today’s necessities. Do we see any signs that honest work is no longer a virtue? I see this problem all around. Have we seen any evidence that respect for law is disintegrating, and that has started to become an accepted method for achieving individual and group desires? With the incidence still ongoing, following George Floyd’s death, it is quite clear that a growing group of people favor anarchy, and that even currently-acting major political leaders support violent protests as a right, even though in these cases the violence always seems to be aimed at innocent people, many of whom belong to minority groups, and it is devastating to report that some of the victims have been small children, toddlers, and even babies. There is a time and place for war, as was required to secure individual freedoms for the inhabitants of the United States of...
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