America vs the Ark of the Covenant

I was doing my Bible study the other day in the book of 1st Samuel about the 5th chapter, we find that the Philistines have taken the Ark of God (Covenant).
The only problem is that when they took the Ark, troublesome times really hit when they took the Ark to Ashdod. They put the Ark in front of their god Dagon. Of course the next day, their god Dagon had fallen over before the Ark. They stood Dagon back up and the next morning Dagon had not only fallen in front of the Ark, but his arms and his head fell off. Then tumors were appearing on the people, so that they cried out to get rid of the Ark. They then sent ot to another city and similar things happened. What I'm getting at is that they never seemed to realize that their god Dagon was useless, and they would rather send the true God down the road an d stick with their useless god. All they had to do was accept the true God and their lives would have been wonderful.

I got to thinking about America. We saw great revivals in the 40s, 50s, and early 60s. At that point this truly was a Christian nation. The Spirit of the lord was amongst the people of this nation, much like the Ark was with Israel. Then the god of prosperity found its way into our land. Prosperity, our new god, made us self-sufficient, not needing the God of our Fathers. So, when the tumors of crime, rebellion, and disrespect appeared, we ran to our god, prosperity. Why doesn't America see that it has turned its back on the true God? How much lower must we sink, how much more dastardly must the crimes get, how many more thousands of babies have to die in a day at the abortionists clinics, how many more kids have to die in our high schools and colleges before we realize that God is waiting for us to turn back to Him.
The proof is in the puddin, as they say. We didn't have uncontrollable kids, we didn't have the disrespect for each other that we have today. we didn't have the terrible diseases of today, we didn't have people shooting innocent people while out shopping, and we didn't have the threat of terrorism. Say what you want, when this nation wasn't afraid to be a Christian nation, we didn't have these problems.