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Well, John, obviously there have been significant changes in the culture

just in the course of your lifetime.

The year you started at Grace Church, 1969 is when America put a man on the moon, which would have

been unthinkable back when you were born even.

And so all the changes that have taken place have really literally changed the way we live.

And some of them for the better, many more conveniences and technological advancements.

But if you look at just the moral quality of life in the West, you'd have to say

it's degenerating and it's begun to degenerate quickly.

Does it seem to you like the pace of our culture's moral decline

has accelerated dramatically just in the past half decade?

Well yeah I think if you just take a sort of a broad view of history, you talk about something

like the Reformation.

Prior to that, there's a thousand years of the Roman Catholic Church dominating.

The Reformation comes and it's epic and it goes for, I think, well well even until today but it wasn't long after that until humanism

comes in but those were always years I mean it could be many years, now you can have

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