Provoking God

The following is a famous quote that I take on face value as being true. It does make sense and seems to fit the historical rise and apparent decline of our once great and blessed nation of America.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policies followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence:

'From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage; .....1776
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to selfishness;

From selfishness to complacency; ......1960s

From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependency; and, …………2000s
From dependency back to bondage.”

Alexander Fraser Tyler (1748-1813) in
The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic

America is at a precipice. We are in a free fall of moral decline. Here is a partial list of the sins of America that provokes God to bring judgment: Abortion (45 million since 1973 in America) , Fornication, Adultery, Pedophilia, Child Molestation, Greed, Homosexuality (there is a vigorous, unrelenting attempt to justify and to legitimatize this immoral behavior), the Justice System, Liars, Animal lovers, and Nature lovers. The latter two occur when regard animals more than we do people. What is the old saying? If we don't learn from history, we will be destined to repeat it.