THE DEMISE OF DECENCY

What do you do in a world that is upside down, when everything that was once wrong, indecent and immoral, is now acceptable, right and true and you’re considered out-of-touch if you think it otherwise?

The morals of a nation, like an individual, determine its course, whether it reaches for what is high, or salivates for what is low and twisted. Personal morality is a difficult sea to cross when all around you challenges what your conscience tries to repel. There is not a civilization that has ever existed on this planet that hasn’t at one time or another had to deal with this very thing. But now we have something insidious dwelling amongst us. Something that presents itself as beneficial yet is a highway to hell for those whose compasses are magnetically challenged. It’s called the Internet.

How can something so powerful be so destructive at the same time? Ask a nuclear bomb that question. Though it weaves through and connects the mind to the endless possibilities of intellectual prowess, mastery and higher learning in ways never before possible, it is at the same time a gateway to the most debauched information ever known to man. It is a bottomless pit of endless filth that carries the mind away to the extremely bizarre and highly forbidden. Pitch black darkness! It’s no longer a select group of people in a small contained environment sharing educational information back and forth, it’s a cesspool the whole world dips it’s little toes into 86,400 seconds a day anytime they want and without restraint.

The worst part of it all: The minds of children are captured like helpless lambs to slaughter long before their prime. Trash in, trash out. The fastest way to change a society is to alter the perspective of its children. Think about it.

As a nation, and I can only speak for the one I live in, insanity and deception is at levels my 59 years have never seen before. I used to think it would never get out of control, but over the past four years I have been seriously challenged to believe that there is any hope whatsoever for a recovery from what is now accepted as "the norm".

I don’t want to paint myself as being perfect. I’m not. I’ve made my share of serious mistakes and pathetic choices. And the worst have come as a believer in God and His Son that produced nothing but destruction and personal failure. But my conscience has been jerked into reality and my eyes opened wide to the demoralization of the human race. In all our sophistication, we are now acting more and more like Pavlov’s dogs waiting for the bell to ring. Tragically, it creates such a twisted perspective that we act one way for all to see and another when we think no one can. But Someone does see! Sadly, there is more wrong than there is right… more unstable than there is firm. And in all honesty, I believe the financial state the entire world finds itself in is a direct result of its complete moral collapse.

Now many will argue with me on this, but history is replete with this story. In other words, we’re not the only ones this has ever happened to, but we are the only ones this has happened to like this.

When the creature tells the Creator they don’t need His help anymore and they are smarter than the One that created them, the natural protection and covering the Creator provides is lifted, and the results are far worse than any cancer… it is a disease known to man as pride and its end is certain death. Not death from a virus, but the audacity of arrogance… a plague far more lethal than any disease known to man. It is the original death.

The checks and balances are all but gone. They have been replaced with another form of regulation. It’s called liberalism. It uses the deceptive tool of “social justice” to state its cause and plead its case, but its ultimate end is the shriveling of guts and the unwillingness to stand up to the lie until one and all are its slave. It births complacency, and like the rats that followed the Pied Piper, it knows that if you tell a lie long enough, eventually one and all will accept its evil as truth. And that’s where we are.

There is only one way out of this darkness and that is to turn the light on. The only real Light that can dispel such darkness comes from the very One that man himself shuns. But if you open up your mind to the idea of just how far out we have gone, the possibility of clear thinking, and the change that truly matters, is only a confession away. "Today, if My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land." His words... not mine.

© 2012 Steven Bliss
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