Learn Our Lessons from History

“…and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew
and beat on the house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
Matthew 7:27

In his book, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon discussed five reasons for the fall of that empire:

1) The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society.

2) Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public moneys for free bread and circuses for the people.

3) The mad craze for pleasure, sports every year becoming more exciting and more brutal.

4) Building of gigantic armaments, when the real enemy was within the decadence of the people.

5) The decay of religion, faith feeding into more formalism; loosing touch with life and becoming impotent to guide the people.

Many of these same things are evident in the United States today.