They began driving God out of their public squares, out of their government, out of the instruction of their children, out of their culture, and out of their lives. They expunged His Word from their public discourse and His law from their collective consciousness. And by driving God out, they created a vacuum. Into that vacuum they brought in still more gods. Their lives were now permeated with idols and increasingly carnal, materialistic, and fragmented. And their civilization was now at war against the foundation on which it stood.
