But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16
A note to the reader…Before starting on this week’s post, I want to let you know that, Lord willing, I plan to pick up my recent series on “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century, and Update” starting next week. This weekend I was out of town and that played havoc with my usual writing schedule. And wanting to post something, I thought I’d offer my thoughts on Ohio’s much-commented-on election results from last Tuesday.
On Tuesday, November 7, Ohio voters shocked the nation by voting to add a very liberty abortion provision to the state’s constitution and passed a law legalizing the sale and taxation of marijuana. Commenting on the abortion vote, one article I saw had the headline “The Ohio Vote is Only the First Step in America’s Descent into the Valley of Death’s Shadow.”[1] To which I thought, “I’m not so sure.” Not to defend the vote or abortion generally. That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that it certainly isn’t the first step in America’s descent to destruction. The West in general, and America in particular, have been collapsing for well over a century. Tuesday’s vote was hardly the first step in our destruction. We’ve been taking such steps for my entire life, and I’m 57 years old. I was born in 1966 and America was even then in the throes of the sexual revolution and the hippie sex, drugs, and rock and roll culture. The Civil Rights Movement was destroying civil rights and feminism was on the rise.
Lux Lucet 