I believe that every societal ill America suffers from, that is the result of human agents, is the direct result of disobeying Gods word. I challenge anyone to give one example that refutes this.
Not at all. Most Christians believe that the Bible is the source of moral behavior. They also believe that people, and entire cultures, suffer for straying from those morals. Now, can you answer the question, or not?
As a Mormon, I believe something very similar.
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Book of Mormon contains accounts of two completely different groups of people who, by God's guidance, crossed the oceans to settle on the American continents, who formed great civilizations, who eventually rebelled against God and turned away from his commandments, and whose societies, as a result, eventually fell into utter destruction. It warns us, in this day, how similar choices may lead our own nation to a similar fate. And I think think that one has to be willfully, stubbornly blind and ignorant, not to see that our nation, at this time, is headed down that very path.
Helaman 7:4-5 describes the state in which the Nephite society was found, around 23 BC…
4. And seeing the people in a state of such awful wickedness, and those Gadianton robbers filling the judgment-seats—having usurped the power and authority of the land; laying aside the commandments of God, and not in the least aright before him; doing no justice unto the children of men;
5. Condemning the righteous because of their righteousness; letting the guilty and the wicked go unpunished because of their money; and moreover to be held in office at the head of government, to rule and do according to their wills, that they might get gain and glory of the world, and, moreover, that they might the more easily commit adultery, and steal, and kill, and do according to their own wills—
Can you not clearly see that this describes exactly the state of our own society today; our government taken over by evil and godless people, who use the power of government to promote evil and immorality, and to condemn righteousness?