The American dream is a dream for more fundamental reasons than the economy. What is the American dream? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Now we have abortion and senseless wars, more laws and less freedom than ever, and no money left to pursue material happiness with. (Since material happiness is now what is largely meant by the pursuit of happiness.)

But the biggest problem of the three, and the most fundamental, is what is now meant by "pursuit of happiness".

If you take away morality... if you try to dethrone Christ the King... that is, if you give everyone the freedom to be as immoral and wicked and perverse as they want to be, and you understand "freedom" as "freedom from God" or "freedom to do whatever I want, even if it's wrong" ... you've just founded a society on quicksand. It WILL collapse. It won't work. It CAN'T work.

People make the dangerous mistake of thinking that they can... that is, that they have the option to... ignore morality, as if it were a choice. In actuality, morality and God's law in particular, are, you might say, the "human instruction manual" or "the instruction manual for society." Now we've all got appliances that came with instruction manuals, so we know that they're full of apparently obvious warnings... like don't attempt to use your hair dryer in the shower (?!) ... but the fact remains, the warnings are given because some people actually try to do that, and, more importantly, they're given because if you DO try to dry your hair in the shower, you are going to get electrocuted... even if you don't believe in rules or electricity, or even if you think all those rules are too constraining, or somehow against your freedom.

God's laws and morality are exactly the same way. We CAN disobey and disregard them. Having a free will, we have that option. Just like we can try to use the hair dryer in the shower. But the fact of the matter is, when we disregard moral law, or God's law, something bad WILL happen. (Maybe in some cases not till eternity, but it will!) In many cases, something bad will happen even immediately. Like the man who decides to steal getting arrested 30 seconds later. So when a society says, "freedom" and MEANS "freedom from all moral law" or "freedom from God's law" or "freedom to do whatever I want, even if it's wrong," guess what happens? This world is the shower, and you're the hair dryer, buddy!

Society is composed of individuals. Individuals need that divine "instruction manual" ... natural, moral and divine law, all three... to "function properly" ... or, to have a good life, or a good society. If the individuals are messed up, society will be messed up. If the individuals disregard all the instruction manuals, society will collapse.

Well, today the "pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of anything and everything that gives you pleasure, regardless of every kind of law... except state law... that's hallowed ground..." And so society will collapse. When we get back to pursuit of eternal happiness, the problems will start to disappear, one after another.