how is it that civilization is getting so morally corrupt?

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when did it become socially acceptable for 10 year old to listen to lyrics from Lil Wayne? Or when did shows like family guy make it into daytime sindication?
 
I have no idea who "Lil Wayne" might be, nor have I ever watched Family Guy but I assume from your question that you view them as symbols of moral corruption that is increasing in current society. But I wonder if moral turpitude is any more common today than it ever was.

We read that in Abraham's day two cities were so abominable in God's eyes that he destroyed them after evacuating Abraham, Lot and his family. One was the city of Sodom from whose name comes the modern word "sodomy".

King Salomon wrote: "Wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging."

We need look no further than the work of Charles Dickens and his contemporaries to glimpse the gluttony and other excesses of the wealthy classes and the degradation of the poor.

Even in the heyday of religion in the United States that brought in prohibition on a wave of religious fervour, we still had the speakeasy , the party girls and the murderous likes of Al Capone and his contemporaries.

Today we are far from perfect but I remind you that
-- some of the poor are fed and receive medical attention
-- we at least have laws on the books that help reduce the rape of children
-- we prosecute murderers, even when they're rich
-- except for our poorest of poor, the majority of our citizens enjoy comfort, convenience, food, housing and clothing beyond that even dreamed of by the most wealthy just 3 centuries ago.
-- we enjoy freedom of religion and thought that was not possible 300 years ago - even in England, then the "center of the universe".

No I do not think that "civilization is getting morally corrupt". I think that our society continues to evolve, that there continues to be human elements who are morally flawed and that, in our desire to confer "freedom", we allow those lower elements to exist freely until their excesses become so repugnant that we lock them away.

I think that the human race continues to evolve and that in another few hundred years we will be a better people -- but there will still be "outlaws" that foul society with their presence.
 
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