America is forgetting the spiritual principles that gave birth to it, and that's yielding some very bad results for our country as a whole and for its future, a prominent evangelical pastor warns.

On Sunday night's episode of Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, LevinTV host Mark Levin discussed America's increasingly secular culture with Cornerstone Church Pastor John Hagee.

Levin and Hagee also discussed the large number of evangelical Christians in America and why they only ever seem to be discussed at arm's length and with disdain by most of the mainstream media.

"America is slipping from its moral foundations of faith and Bible principles into secularism," Hagee explained. "The further into secularism you go, the further away from the word of God you go. And when you're away from the word of God, you are away from God."

"And it will produce nothing but heartache and chaos, because the real principles of society, the real principles of this nation, are still in the word of God," Hagee later added.

Hagee also warned that "our nation today is getting away from anything that looks like righteousness."

This secularist drift has also manifested in the fact that "socialism is having a heyday" thanks to the new wave of far-Left Democrats in Congress, even though it "always produces heartache." He pointed to some of history's most horrific examples of socialism in practice.

Hagee is also the author of the new book "Earth's Last Empire," which is about current events, biblical prophecy, and the end of days.

Another ill effect of America's drift is the degradation and dissolution of the American family, Hagee said. "We have a situation in our country where the family has been replaced by governmental support, and the authority of the father in the home is a thing of mockery, and we are paying an awesome price."

What is that price? "A child that does not hear the principles of righteousness out of the mouth of its father or out of the mouth of its mother will always go into the streets and search for a leader," Hagee explained. "And those leaders are leaders of gangs, and they're leaders of a lifestyle that's detrimental to America."

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How important is faith to the preservation of liberty? Can liberty survive without a faithful culture? In a Thursday morning panel at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), BlazeTV host Allie Stuckey, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Hillsdale College professor Dr. Matthew Spalding discussed the question at length.

“We [conservatives] talk about liberty and rights a lot. So does the Left,” Spalding said during the discussion. “The fundamental question here is, what’s the source of the rights?”

“The beauty of the Declaration [of Independence] is you can understand it as a philosophical question, but also as a theological question,” Spalding continues. “And either way you read it, you can’t understand liberty as [the Founders] understood it and as we as conservatives understand it without an idea that there is transcendence.”

During the discussion, Stuckey noted the importance of the shared idea of a “higher moral law,” that there is “some idea of human right and some things are wrong.”

“Even if we disagree on the manifestations of that,” Stuckey continued, “everyone kind of agrees that there are some things you are just born with.”

“At the end of the day, our faith matters,” Lankford said toward the end of the talk. “It does have an effect not only on our nation [but on] our culture and our neighborhoods. And we should choose to be able to live that out in a way that matters. I always get the joy of being able to look at someone of faith and saying, ‘Live your faith. Our culture will not be turned around by government.”

You can watch the full panel here: