text: That is what Paul is saying here in Romans 1. You want to know why the world is the way it is? Because men have forgotten God. However, we have not just forgotten him, but ignored him, trampled upon his authority, despised him, and rejected his goodness and glory for lesser things. That is the reason the world is the way it is: it is not because God has forgotten us, but because we have forgotten God.
  We need to be reminded of this, because we sometimes tend to weigh things wrongly. We tend to think that our big problems are problems of greed, pornography, lust, anger, addictions of various kinds, and so on. But Paul is saying here that as bad as those problems are, they are only symptoms of a deeper problem: the problem of godlessness. Every sin ultimately springs from this unholy fountain. When the heart is godless, every stream of thought and desire springing from the heart is poisoned.