For many years I have heard the reference that the United States is like modern day Rome – both in its glorious achievements and also in its potential downfall.  While Rome had many issues that affected its eventual demise, the underlying one was moral decay.  Some would argue that morality may also be at the center of whether or not the United States will continue to achieve and prosper as a nation.  I would argue that it is not just the United States that will hinge on the morality issue.  Indeed, across the globe, the myriad of concerns that we read, hear and see on the news and social media, are mostly rooted in issues of morality.  In some respects, while the globe has progressed on many fronts since the Roman Era, in other ways, the world seems to be backsliding into a previous time when pagan societies engaged in morally questionable and societally destructive practices.  As we scan the issues of the globe over many years, we seem to have spanned from pagan to sacred and back again.