on "society"

You've heard it in church thousands of times:
"society is going downhill, blah blah blah."
church people always talk about how our culture is ruining our minds and money money money girls girls girls blah blah blah.
society isn't going downhill, and i'm sick of hearing about it.
society is reverting to how it used to be.

the "Western World" we've all learned to love is the culture that the church created.
Before that was Roman times, and Mayan times, and Babylonian times, and Greek times, and Sumerian times, and Chinese times.
Romans in the year 0 had a culture that any of today's teenagers would be shocked at. The world isn't going downhill. The world has always been at the bottom of the hill. We've just grown up in an age where the world has been in a temporary state of "suspend", where for a brief 1500 year timespan, Christianity defined our society. That is coming to a close. We have to stop wishing that things would be all warm and cozy and be willing to actually do something with our faith besides have potluck dinners and hang out with old people. It's time to get out there and actually win souls.