How can we stop the Moral decay in our nation?

[kozlosap]

We can’t. Not alone. We can only try to influence the people immediately around us, like Jesus did, and then hope they influence others. But in order to be a conduit for His love, first we need to know Him. Then we can allow Him to work through us, by dying to self.

:thumbsup:yes indeed! Living out the Gospels and Corporal Works of Mercy is how Our Lord taught us to change the hearts of those around us. It only took me 55 years to figure it out

 

[WilT]

:thumbsup:yes indeed! Living out the Gospels and Corporal Works of Mercy is how Our Lord taught us to change the hearts of those around us. It only took me 55 years to figure it out

sounds good Kozlosap. It took me a little less than that:wink:

 

[mikekle]

Prayer and fasting.

Would prayer and fasting been enough for the founding fathers to break free from England and gain true independence?

 

[MarkInOregon]

I believe we have the strength and peoples to stop it but we are lacking something. I don’t want to see us our Christian nation reduced to paganism of any sort. Let’s stop it before it gets any further.

I would say by actually living as a Christian (which includes the excellent suggestions of prayer and fasting)–letting our faith transform our lives–as it did the lives of the early Christians. Far too many Christians have been Christianities own worst enemy – far too many have been infected and transformed by the world rather than by adhering to the Gospel message and transforming the world. Too often our professed beliefs don’t extend out into the way we live our lives. I know I have fallen way too short for too many years. When those who are not Christian don’t see us living what we proclaim–well I think you can see the problem.

The peace of Christ,
Mark

 

[johnnyc176]

Jesus gave us a good model…

And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you (compassion). Go your way, and from now on do not sin again (conversion).” John 8:11

Compassion for this life, conversion for the next. Both are pastoral and done out of love. The problem arises I think when we focus on one at the expense of the other and I think that in the world today the second part is being ignored. Jesus spoke much about sin, satan and hell. I’m guessin’ for a reason.

 

[WilT]

I would say by actually living as a Christian (which includes the excellent suggestions of prayer and fasting)–letting our faith transform our lives–as it did the lives of the early Christians. Far too many Christians have been Christianities own worst enemy – far too many have been infected and transformed by the world rather than by adhering to the Gospel message and transforming the world. Too often our professed beliefs don’t extend out into the way we live our lives. I know I have fallen way too short for too many years. When those who are not Christian don’t see us living what we proclaim–well I think you can see the problem.

The peace of Christ,
Mark

thanks Mark. So true.

 

[johnnyc176]

Far too many Christians have been Christianities own worst enemy – far too many have been infected and transformed by the world rather than by adhering to the Gospel message and transforming the world.

Very true. We know that 50% of Catholics voted for a staunch pro abortion president. Many, as Pope Francis said recently “say they belong to the church,” but in reality have “only one foot inside,” They are not really Catholic. And the most recent from outside the Church…the Presbyterian community now allows homosexual marriage.

catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=21765

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.

We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

 

[Avdima]

I believe we have the strength and peoples to stop it but we are lacking something. I don’t want to see us our Christian nation reduced to paganism of any sort. Let’s stop it before it gets any further.

This nation was never Christian to begin with. And moral decay is relative we are some might argue that we are whole a lot moral than fifty or hundred years ago.

 

[migueltojose]

This nation was never Christian to begin with. And moral decay is relative we are some might argue that we are whole a lot moral than fifty or hundred years ago.

Generally speaking, we are amoral at best, immoral at worst and trending in the wrong direction. Primarily due to leisure time and disposable income. Idle hands do the devils work. We confuse temperance with tolerance and acceptance. We accept bad behavior and sin under the guise of being tolerant (or more like politically correct against a tidal wave of popular opinion).

***CCC: Temperance moderates the powerful attraction of pleasures, guarantees the will’s control over instincts, keeps desires honorable, and directs the passions to good. “Do not follow your base desires but restrain your appetites” (Sir 18:30). Believers should “live sober, upright and godly lives” (Titus 2:12). “Love is kept uncorrupted by temperance, undisturbed by fortitude, obedient to God by justice and discerning by prudence” (St. Augustine). ***

Believers need to be as strong as ever (but are shrinking in number) because to be able to remain a true believer with the temptation that surrounds us requires strong theological virtues of faith, hope and love, by the Grace of God.

 

[WilT]

Generally speaking, we are amoral at best, immoral at worst and trending in the wrong direction. Primarily due to leisure time and disposable income. Idle hands do the devils work. We confuse temperance with tolerance and acceptance. We accept bad behavior and sin under the guise of being tolerant (or more like politically correct against a tidal wave of popular opinion).

***CCC: Temperance moderates the powerful attraction of pleasures, guarantees the will’s control over instincts, keeps desires honorable, and directs the passions to good. “Do not follow your base desires but restrain your appetites” (Sir 18:30). Believers should “live sober, upright and godly lives” (Titus 2:12). “Love is kept uncorrupted by temperance, undisturbed by fortitude, obedient to God by justice and discerning by prudence” (St. Augustine). ***

Believers need to be as strong as ever (but are shrinking in number) because to be able to remain a true believer with the temptation that surrounds us requires strong theological virtues of faith, hope and love, by the Grace of God.

great idea’s migueltojose