Expecting the non-believer to live by God's word - good luck with that!

I am certainly for calling everyone everywhere to believe what the Bible teaches and follow the subject of it - Jesus Christ. However, thinking we will convince folks that they should live by it, just because it is what our nation was founded on, is contrary to the nature of unbelievers. See the truth below -

Rom. 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

That is the hard to hear news - unless there is some other worldly motivation (impress a girlfriend, etc.), those who have not been born again will reject  God's word, even when the truth looks very obvious to us.
 
Rom. 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. 

There is also good news - even as we proclaim the truth and face persecution, we have sure eternal hope in Jesus Christ! 

A question - How did our nation generally function according to biblical truth for so long and how did we get so averse to the truth so quickly in recent years? 

Here is my theory on the issue:  

I know many of our founding fathers where Christians, as were many of those who originally settled this country. It also seems obvious that Christianity was the most prolific religion for many years here and it created a type of peer pressure that affected the actions of even those who did not hold to the Christian faith themselves. At some point, the Biblical basis for these peer pressure encouraged morals became lost to the majority and people began to feel empowered to question and reject them! 

Is that the time we live in? 

I think it is self evident and substantiated by recent surveys, that a minority of Americans are Christians. Even if a majority of Americans might profess to be Christians, the majority surely don't hold to or live by the Biblical standards that define true Christianity. As a result, the peer pressure to be moral according to the Bible's standards, has now been replaced with the peer pressure to be non-offensive and all-inclusive when it comes to lifestyle choices that the Bible calls sinful. 

In post Christian societies like we see in Europe and elsewhere, this is just the way it goes. We may see a great awakening to the truth by the power of the Holy Spirit, if we continue to proclaim the truth. However, we also need to consider the fact that persecution is the norm for Christ's followers and the absence of it over the past 200ish years here, has been the exception for believers throughout history, not the norm!  

"Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved."