Early on, as the movie outlines the life of a “typicial”, we see that mom and the kids go to church on Sunday morning while dad plays golf. This is extremely telling as to the roots of our present decline.

This abdication of fathers from spiritual leadership of their family and involvement in the church is one the key determinants in the marginalization of the church in today’s culture that has brought us our society to its present pass of preparing to trade our birthright for seductive utopian porridge. Very prophetic.

Fortunately awareness is growing about the excessive feminization of the church that has taken place over the past half century (or longer), but enormous damage has been done. We need fathers and men to take leadership again – servant leadership, that is, not domination or abusiveness.

Overall, some amusingly dated sections, especially regarding the auto industry. Indeed, the downfall of that industry is a microcosm of the poisons that our body politic has ingested.

Nonetheless, I agree that the movie’s exposition of the starkness of the choice is most timely: we are at the latest of such decision points and stand on a knife’s edge with a serious likelihood of falling into the abyss.

Only we have far less excuse than the movie characters, because we have the multiple examples of history to show us the horrors of the “ISM”. For our nation to now voluntarily choose such darkness would be a betrayal of cataclysmic consequence for our entire planet – and history will surely judge our generation as most contemptible should we so choose.