In the undated sermon which appears to have been given at least within the current decade and probably within the last several years, Hagee also claims "America has become a pagan society" which is "in a moral, emotional and spiritual free fall" and is "rebirthing Sodom and Gomorrah." But available empirical evidence, in terms of national social trends, does not support Hagee's dire claims. Additionally, recent federally funded studies have shown that nationally (controlling for differences in the makeup of student populations) public schools in America perform at least as well as private schools and Christian private schools perform, on a number of criteria, worse than secular private schools and government funded public schools.

It is a staple of many American fundamentalist evangelical sermons and writings to claim that an epidemic of social pathologies, such as violent crime and divorce, afflict America and that the alleged epidemic has been brought on by insufficient public displays of Christianity and "secularism", which typically is portrayed as a "satanic religion" rather than a political accommodation which allows, within democracies, political factions holding different religious, sectarian and philosophical beliefs to coexist. However, federal studies suggest American social trends have, in the decade and a half since the early 1990's, been on the balance positive.

In pastor John Hagee's writings, in his media appearances and for decades from his pulpit, Hagee has routinely suggested the United States is afflicted by a massive rise in social pathologies but Hagee's claims are generally contradicted by data, from the federal Center For Disease Control and the FBI, which indicate that national rates of murder, violent crime, divorce, rape and several sexually transmitted diseases steadily fell steadily and in some cases  dramatically from the early 1990's up to at least 2006.

"America has become a pagan society," thunders the powerful and influential Texas pastor in the Cornerstone Church sermon, "and we are in a moral, emotional, spiritual free fall. When a school teacher cannot refer to the Ten Commandments on the wall but can command your child to read Harry Potter, which is nothing but a precursor of witchcraft, we' going in the wrong direction here. This is not intelligence! We are embracing the era of darkness! re embracing the era of darkness! When the Boy Scouts of America are censored and penalized for refusing to accept homosexual scout leaders, we are a pagan nation where we're rebirthing Sodom and Gomorrah!

Hagee goes on to state that, "The Ten Commandments have been thrown out of the public schools - when you throw God out, Satan comes in. When you reject truth, all that's left to embrace is a lie. When you reject the love of God, hate walks through the door. When you reject light, you have embraced darkness. When you reject faith, you have embraced fear. When you reject peace, you have embraced torment. When you reject the Holy Spirit, you embrace a demon spirit and I assure you whether or not you believe in demon spirits, they're very real and they're in your church."

The evangelical, fundamentalist Christian leader, who has extensive access to prominent American politicians, claims he can call any major Israeli politician at will. John Hagee is founder of the nonprofit 501(c)(3) group "Christians United For Israel which is devoted to supporting an intransigent US foreign stance against any Israeli-Palestinian peace deal which would cede any Israeli land. Hagee