Evil Today

Dear Victorious,

I saw your blog about the "blasphemy challenge." It seems you have concluded that evil is all around us and that it is prevailing in the world. Isn't this a cynical point of view? Don't you think things like that "blasphemy challenge" are more aberrations and not typical of our culture?

Reality Based

Dear Reality,

You know, I would like to have a civilized debate with you on this subject. Unfortunately, there is not even the slightest chance that I am wrong here. The world is bad and it is getting worse. Having people publicly proclaim that there is no god is only an example of the reality we're living in. Here are some other examples:

More Christians have been martyred for their faith (i.e., killed for being Christians) in the past century than in all the other centuries since Christ's death put together.

This month, in addition to honoring mother's and prayer, has been set aside as "National Masturbation Month" - in which Americans are supposed to celebrate masturbation.

More Americans are incarcerated than in any other country on earth. The U.S. has more people in prison than China, Russia, Indonesia, India or any other country. And mind you, some of these countries have three times the population that we do!

More than 2 million people are enslaved in western countries right now. Most are serving as sexual slaves or domestics. Its estimated that about half of them are children (most of whom are the sexual slaves).

Pornography is the most prevalent user of the Internet. It takes up more of our Internet bandwidth than news, research, entertainment, travel, business or any other sector of society. And it's growing at a breakneck speed too.

So no, I am not being pessimistic. The Bible tells us that the closer we get to the end times (when Christ will return) it is going to get uglier and uglier. I'm just observing the fact that it is.