I still remember when I was a child that things were very different morally than they are today. We did a lot more as a family and a lot less as an individual just looking for their own pleasure.

When I was a child, almost all businesses were closed on Sunday and you thought ill of a farmer that was working in the fields that day. Sundays were the day that you spent with your family or went to visit relatives.

I remember that it seemed to be a disgrace if an unmarried woman got pregnant or had a child out of wedlock. TV shows didn’t show or glorify any sex, especially between unmarried persons.

I don’t think I heard of or even imagined that people could be attracted to the same sex the way one was attracted to the opposite sex. It certainly wasn’t cool to be that way.

I also don’t remember hearing anything about abortion. Killing children was seldom heard of and those that did were put away for a long time. If a girl got pregnant, she often went away until she had her baby. Then the only normal options were to keep the baby or put it up for adoption.

In the area of the country that I grew up in, almost all families had a mother and a father. It was very rare to have a one parent household.

Most things are completely different now. Most stores are open 7 days a week and families spend very little time together. Even when they are together, many kids are staring at some type of screen most of the time.

Single parent families are so common that they are almost the norm in some neighborhoods. Teenagers regularly have babies and most girls don’t have the father of their child to help them with it.

Today, homosexuality is celebrated and gay marriage is legal in all fifty states. If you are opposed to homosexuality, you are looked down on.

As far as abortion, we have killed almost 60 million babies in this country through abortion. Many young girls are counseled to have an abortion rather than inconvenience themselves.

Our country has changed an awful lot over the last fifty years. I’m not saying that all of the changes are bad. I am also not saying that there were not immoral and bad people in this country fifty years ago. But I think the conscience of America has changed dramatically over the last half a century. My question is, “Are we getting better or worse in God’s eyes?”