Incredible. Just incredible, Mr. Snyder. A man who professes to be a Christian, thus a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, thus a child of God rather than of the world, thus should be Bible literate and reference the real explanation of what has gone wrong and why things are occurring as they are. Yet not one word. Not one word in the article below of sin, of God, of man and woman turning from God to their own lusts and pleasures in disobedience to God.

Wonder why things have gotten as they are and are accelerating at a pace heretofore even witnessed or known in world history?

When Christians refuse to write or speak about what the real cause is of the decline, and the state of things and they either take a 100% world view stance and position and in their words, a reader, a listener could never discern that they are a professed Chrisitan — think THAT might be the biggest problem and ought to be of great concern?

Why is it professed Christian writers, speakers, and those who have the public eyes and ears refuse time and time again to write or speak of sin, of man and woman abandoning God and the Bible?

Afraid of losing $$$? Ad revenue? Surely.

Afraid of losing those false numbers on a page of followers?

Either begin to speak and write the truth. With Scripture. Referencing the spiritual war, sin, men and women being given over to their reprobate, unrighteous, ungodly, and wicked minds or stop waving the Christian flag at times and espousing to be a disciple of Christ’s, for that is what a true Christian is. And if in our words we cannot be distinguished from anyone in the world? There is no light unto the world, no salt given and our words flavored by? Why then say, dearly beloved, dear professed Christian you are contending for the faith — which is what we all ought to be doing daily — when in reality you are contending for dollars, personal gain, personal glory, votes when running for election, and popularity in this lifetime?

Really.

Either stand up solidly, firmly, boldly, clearly, faithfully in faith for the faith in God, in Christ, in the Holy Spirit, in the Holy Bible…or sit down, or just declare yourself a man or woman of the world, in the world and of the world and more concerned with earthly politics, popularity, and personal accolades, followers and gain than gaining the kingdom of God.

Too many Marie Antionettes vainly imaging they can have their faith [cake] and the world [eat it] too!

Read on…

And stop blaming EVERYTHING on COVID-19 and the communist Chinese lab in Wuhan, China, financed in part by the U.S. government and Anthony Fauci in his and their biological weapons research into gain-of-function for viruses. To infect and kill more people more effectively than the viruses found in nature. And that is what was going on. What happened. And Fauci and the communist Chinese walk away freely when in reality they are responsible for murdering almost as many people, and in a lot shorter span of time than did Adopf Hitler and the nazis did in every concentration and work camp. A little over 12,000,000 compared to a little over 13,000,000.

Granted, COVID-19 has had a huge impact. But that is not the root cause. Stop using it as such. Stop making COVID-19 the scapegoat for every ill now occurring. The root cause is man and woman’s sin and denial and disobedience towards God and God’s Word. And until and unless seeing that truth, having that as the starting point in every conversation and thing written — why bother writing or speaking for any words are thus in vain since not grounded, founded in the truth, in the foundational root cause as to why everything that is taking place is happening. And as swiftly as they all are occurring. And increasing in frequency, volume, and intensity. Almost daily.

COVID-19 was just one of the many signs for men and women of the times, to perhaps have them pause and think — THINK —  about eternity, God, Jesus, the Bible, and about the condition of their sports, souls, and lives…and their eternity. But none of what the world declares is the root cause, the REAL problem is truly the REAL problem.

That would be the dark, cold, sinful, inherently evil, and corrupt heart and mind of man and woman.

But who wants to declare that? It won’t bring in the dollars, pounds, Euros, or yen, or win many friends of the world, will it?

Ahh, that always pesky and uncomfortable TRUTH…

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Monday, June 26th, 2023

Can You Explain What Has Gone Wrong With America?

June 25, 2023

By Michael Snyder

Reprinted from The End of the American Dream

At this point, nobody can deny that we are a society in decline.  In America today, you can buy a U.S. Senator for 10,000 dollars, test scores for 13-year-olds have dropped to alarmingly low levels, and the CDC is telling us that more people than ever are getting depressed.  Our streets are filled with crime, the ranks of the homeless are absolutely surging, and we are facing the worst drug crisis in the entire history of our nation.  Meanwhile, corruption is seemingly everywhere.  The guy in the White House and his son have made millions of dollars in an epic influence-peddling scheme that stretched over many years, and the mainstream media doesn’t seem to care.  Of course they know exactly what it is like to be bought and paid for, because the only reason the big news networks can survive is because of the millions of advertising dollars that the pharmaceutical industry continues to inject into their dying carcasses.

As Victor Davis Hanson has astutely observed, America was once experiencing a “gradual decline”, but now the fall of our nation “has accelerated at such an astonishing rate we can scarcely recognize our country”…

Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode.

Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing Donald Trump from the presidency and destroying the rule of law in the process? Or all that and more?

Now with the election of Joe Biden, what had been a fast-tracked decline has accelerated at such an astonishing rate we can scarcely recognize our country.

I wish that what he is saying wasn’t true.

But it is.

Just a few years ago, organized looting was something that was fairly uncommon.

Sadly, now we have reached a point where groups of people are constantly storming into our major retailers, grabbing whatever they want, and then storming out…

Retail crime is at a record high, and thieves are becoming bolder than ever.

“We’ve just had a lot of stressful situations where me or like one of my coworkers have gotten hit trying to get stuff back,” said Mae McRae, the manager of Las Vegas boutique Eden Sky. “We have people who completely fill up their hands and just run out. No care in the world.”

The riots of 2020 were a real turning point, and retail theft hit the 100 billion dollar mark for the very first time in 2022…

The National Retail Federation found retailers lost approximately $100 billion last year, which is up from $94 billion in 2021 and $91 billion in 2020.

“They’re getting more comfortable with it because we won’t chase after them,” McRae said of shoplifters, noting how many retailers train employees to not go after the shoplifter for safety reasons.

It is being projected that retail theft will be way above the 100 billion dollar mark this year.

Unfortunately, most of our politicians don’t seem interested in solving this crisis.

So large retailers are starting to flee the areas that have been hit the hardest, and that even includes very wealthy cities such as San Francisco…

A slew of companies have indicated in the past few months that they will exit locations in San Francisco’s downtown area, moves AT&T, Westfield and Nordstrom recently said they would also make.

Reports of AT&T’s closure of its San Francisco flagship, located at 1 Powell Street in the Union Square area, first came about late last week. That will take place in August, with the workers getting “offered jobs at one of the many other retail locations in the city,” an AT&T spokesperson told FOX Business on Monday.

Instead of working hard to fix our growing problems, our politicians are busy working hard to win their next elections, and for most of them that means making appearances at the “pride parades” that are taking place all over America this month.

In New York, approximately 100,000 people marched in the Big Apple’s world famous pride parade on Sunday, and it was expected “to draw roughly a million spectators”…

Spotted among the amalgam of drag queens and activists marching down Fifth Avenue were figures like Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul, and Chuck Schumer – three of roughly 100,000 participants taking part in the parade’s main procession.

This year’s march – the 53rd in the city’s history – is expected to draw roughly a million spectators, while featuring some 60 floats that speak to the lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer situation not only in New York, but across the country.

There is absolutely no doubt about where the financial capital of the world stands.

At one point, some participants in the parade began chanting slogans that caused great alarm, but the mainstream media will not be covering this.