Counterpoint: Decline in religion doesn’t bode well for the republic
This might not seem like a crisis, but the American Founders would have disagreed. These men saw that self-government depended on morality and virtue, which, in turn, depended on religion. As George Washington stated in his Farewell Address, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indisputable supports.”
And what is remarkable about this is that some of those very important founders were actually deists and freethinkers in their time… But they rightfully believe that godlessness leads easily to nihilism that destroys the framework for a republic based on the rights of man.