I respect ppl. that believe in religion, but I put my faith in myself not a book that was written, as Bill Maher puts it, during a time science wasn't advanced. A higher power maybe, formalized religion no.
As far as America recovering, I don't agree. We can recover, we may just lose our empire status, which is fine by me. Let someone else do the heavy lifting internationally. We have demonstrated that we can create which is something the Chinese don't do well, they copy well. What is Russia without oil, vodka, beautiful women, and some IT ppl.