Here’s a thoughtful essay by Mark Rushdoony, analyzing the deep divisions that afflict “a nation running from Christianity.”
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/the-divided-states-of-america
“We have a great deal of historical and contemporary evidence that the democratic process has always been infected with, if not controlled by, blatant lies and fraud,” Mark writes. “Confidence in [our] institutions is now incredibly low.”
People who reject God wind up needing, desperately, to replace Him. Thrown onto their own sinful resources without the guidance of Scripture, when they run from Christianity, they run off in all different directions.
As James Madison would have said, “democracy” is a very poor substitute for justice.
And here’s another great soul-searching article by Martin Selbrede of Chalcedon: https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/revilers-or-reconstructionists
Yeah, I’ve got to post that one, too.