If we applied God's word to politics, then shouldn't we take it for granted that the world has been convicted because it does not believe and take it from there? Isn't the, what do you call it, cognitive dissonance? of this conviction exactly the reason the world has spiraled into insanity and embraced it as a just the way "of life"?
For example, if we took the Gospel approach we say, "neither do I condemn you (You are forgiven). Go, and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you..."