Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 1:7
Is America under the judgment of God? Many Christians think so, this author among them.
Some of our largest, most prosperous and best-known cities are literally burned with fire and will take years to recover, if they ever do. Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Chicago and New York have seen massive riots and property destruction on a level that few Americans could have imagined just six months ago. On the internet one can view the daily, destructive handiwork of Antifa in Portland and Seattle. The Portland riots have been going on for three months now and show no sigh of abating. In fact, the riots may be spreading, as there are reports just today (8/23/2020) that the sort of disturbances that have been going in the Portland have spread to Denver.
Our political system is a mess. The Democrats have veered off in a radical socialist/social justice direction. So overt is their radicalism that it has caused concern even among some of the older, mainstream liberals in the party. The Republicans, relatively speaking a saner bunch, have nevertheless lost their moorings in many ways. There was a time, not all that long ago, when Republicans at least pretended to be the party of fiscal restraint. Yet under President Trump debts and deficits have exploded and almost no one says a word. When Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) objected to the house passing the budget busting $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill without a vote, he was denounced by President Trump as a, “third rate Grandstander.” Trump went on to say that Massie should be thrown out of the Republican party. That was Massie’s reward for standing up for the Constitution.
Lux Lucet 
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