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Like millions of other people I was aghast as news reports relayed details of the high school nightmare in Colorado. I sat at my desk stunned. I didn't feel like talking or crying or even Praying. All I felt was a desire to wake up from an awful nightmare. It wasn't long before I asked: Why?

As I pondered the tragedy, I recalled a question posed on a test in one of my Bible college classes. It related to the  Apostle Paul's indictment of mankind's rebellion against God as described in the first chapter of Romans, in the Bible, verses 18 through 32. Using some of the most condemning language in the Bible, Paul paints a dark, oppressive picture of the ways mankind has corrupted God's wonderful plan for creation.

The test asked: Does the passage describe man as becoming progressively wicked, growing in capacity to commit evil, traveling a downward spiral toward darker depths? Or does it describe man as immediately being totally corrupt from the very beginning, having the capacity to commit the worst evil, simply sinning more creatively?

Historical records support the answer that man has always had the capacity to commit the most grotesque deeds possible - and has committed them. Only the methods and the magnitude have changed.

Sexual abuse, Murder, beastiality, killing of children, terra carnage, sexual immorality, corrupt leaders and racial strife have been around forever. We've preferred to ignore it because it wasn't our problem, until now. It wasn't in our yard, until now. Why now in America?

I fear that America as an institution has crossed the threshold from respected decency to indiscreet incivility. It has over the line separating honorable self-restraint and self-fulfillment. It has eliminated the last stronghold of morality that was keeping our country great and united - respect for God - and replaced it with acceptance of godlessness. There are no more slippery slopes to worry about. We're sliding so fast downhill that we actually think we're making progress.

As I read letters to the editor in The Dispatch, watch news shows and listen to celebrities defend decadence, sadness and anger mingle in my heart. They exhort the virtues of and defend things like safer-sex, evolution, and sexual relations outside of marriage, divorce, religious (non-Christian) tolerance and violence promoting music. I wonder if they even consider the short- and long-term nefarious effect of their position. Do they even care?

What, for example, is the logical end of a society raised on evolutionary theory? Since it doubts that a Supreme Being made earth and its inhabitants, it negates Moral Absolutes. If there are no Moral Absolutes then we do as we please. The scenarios now playing out in our land are the bitter fruit of our godless labors. Do you know what godless means? It doesn't mean not believing in God. It means doing things without caring about God.

What moral gains have we made by exaggerating the "separation of church an state" issue that isn't even Constitutional? How has our quality of life and the moral character of our children and our society improved by substituting winter holiday for Christmas and spring break for Easter in our schools? Where is the added social value to allowing pornography, gambling, destructive speech and immoral behavior by people in leadership to be legal? How has banning religious references at school graduations benefited our families? What advances have we made by instituting restrictions on religious freedom in the work place? How has disallowing teachers from reading their Bibles or praying in school made our world a better place? We I have gained absolutely nothing and are in the process of losing nearly everything.

The Colorado calamity, was not "just the beginning of things to come." On the contrary, it is another road marker along, our journey toward total self-destruction. Want to change the course? Then know this and take it to heart: Nothing we do will stem our society's increasing wickedness and evil. Our only salvation comes by turning to Gold in genuine fear and repentance, and allowing Him back into our schools, into our government, into our laws, into our courtrooms, into our homes and into our hearts. This time it's for more than just our children's sake - it's for the sake of all humanity.