Apologist Ravi Zacharias warns of a 'deep crisis' of the American soul

Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias has spoken about what he perceives as a worrying and potentially fatal state of the American soul.

The Indian-born, Canadian-American Christian did not hold back from using strong words on his blog post. Zacharias started by referring to the book "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" written decades ago by Francis Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop. The book described how a culture's wrong decisions could send it to an unwanted direction and Zacharias thought the two authors may have just written about contemporary America.

"Whatever happened to the American soul?" asked Zacharias.

"We are truly at the cliff's precipitous edge and the fall could be long and deadly," he warned. "Why? We have a deep crisis of the soul that is killing us morally and we have no recourse."

He then went ahead to point out at least three particular killings of this time: the death of morality, the death of truth, and the death of reason.

He illustrated death of morality in the highly publicized legal trial of O.J. Simpson where Simpson's own attorney, Robert Shapiro, said in an interview with Megyn Kelly of Fox News that "legal justice" triumphed over "moral justice."

Zacharias referred to the death of truth when lies shrouded the death of four American service-men and death of reason when "clever linguistic sleight" produced the term "radicalized" and prevented Americans to identify their enemies for what they were.

"We are at war but not only with an enemy. We are at war within our own culture, and whether we will ever win over the enemy depends on whether we win this war within our own souls," Zacharias said.

He also denounced liberalism and said, "True freedom is not in doing whatever we wish but in doing what we ought."

The apologist believes America's only hope is through the truth offered by Jesus' redemption and offered his prayer for the Fourth of July.

Another influential American shares Zacharias' belief that America is in trouble.

Best-selling author Eric Metaxas wrote in his latest book, "If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty," that America has a God-given mission to govern through liberty and moral law and that abdicating from this path is equal to committing suicide.