Intro: I read the news online in the morning. Photo after photo, article after article, paragraph after paragraph—all of it carried the message that the West is amidst moral freefall and divine judgment. Students from Columbia and Yale are videoed screaming, “Tear down our society!” Students who, call me crazy, should be learning history, or in the library doing research, reading a classic, (remember those?), and discovering a coherent worldview are instead puppets on strings–demonic marionettes parroting demonic screeds, manifesting not so much a coherent argument or worldview as sophomoric hubris and utter immaturity.

It does not bode well for this culture or any culture. Education has been largely replaced by indoctrination. The result is predictable: automatons of rage who cannot think for themselves because they’ve not been taught how to think but only to rage, rage, rage, and all the while playing the victim. It’s so silly on one hand and so utterly predictable on the other. But this is where we are–tuition dollars going to pay for indoctrination camps that produce intellectual and moral children.  

Wisdom from God: Does God speak to this? Do His Scriptures speak to this? Of course. “When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD” (Pr 19:3, ESV). What we’re witnessing—national borderlessness; no prosecution of violent crime; justice for sale to the highest bidders; anti-Semitism; violence in the streets; a deliberate dumbing-down of every arena; the alphabet identities, et al.–is demonic and there’s no political cure, only a spiritual one—the one of Scripture, where man recognizes and repents of his own sin, and flees to God in repentance and faith. That’s it. But will we do that? We shall see. In the meantime, Rome burns. 

A Prayer from Daniel: “O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act” (Dan 9:19a, ESV). For we have departed and are reaping the fruits of our fallen ways.