The Extraordinary Opportunity Ahead

Religious practices alone aren't a solution.

The 'moral' requirement is a heart issue,

not just simple rules.    No one is fully

constrained by rules, as we've seen,

and industry's play for profit has

no discernable moral standard.

John Adams wrote in 1798 about the extraordinary opportunity ahead of us as a nation. He added the caveat that if we became like other nations, soiled by iniquity and extravagance, "... this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world, because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion."

  

In his letter he warned that in the absence of such constraint, avarice, ambition, and revenge (or galantry) would "break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net."

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Where on our timeline might we find this tipping point?