Explanatory Essay Revolt Against God: America's Spiritual Despair

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American society is facing a rapid decline in the moral fabric of our value system. William J. Bennett is outspoken as he challenges the problems of corruption and violence in “Revolt Against God: America’s Spiritual Despair.” America has become a degraded society with exploding rates of crime, abnormal social pathologies, and its soft attitude’s because of its aversion to spirituality. Only in the course of fighting against the acceptance of moral corruption can America change its values to save our children by education, and turning to religion.
In all parts of life, there are periods of adversity that we must face; the challenge however, is what we gain from conquering these trials. Some of these challenges can bring about positive effects that influence the path of one’s life, however the hard truth is, that America has become a center for violence, drug use, and apathy. America’s social regression does not stem from poverty, but from the lack of honor. Bennett states there have been huge increases in violent crime, illegitimate births, divorces, and the use of drugs, as well as a significant reduction in S.A.T. scores of American students. American’s have lost their shock value because of cynicism. They have become overloaded with constant streams of deviancy portrayed in the media.
Not only do violence and urban terror signal decay, but also we have surrendered to immoral “acts of unspeakable cruelty and inhumanity” through the acceptance and justification of music recordings and television portrayals. Liberalism should not be the acceptance of moral decay. American’s should not hold the idea that corruption is okay as long is it is not happening to me. This is what Bennett calls spiritual acedia – “the undue concern for external affairs and worldly things.” He states that it eventually leads to the hatred of all good things – we become just as corrupt as those committing the immoral acts...