Jerry C. Brewer
In his book entitled, The Closing Of The American Mind, Allan Bloom wrote of the decadence that consumed German society in the 1930s. “…anything was possible for people who sang of the joy of the knife in cabarets. Decent people became used to hearing things about which they would have in the past been horrified to think, and which would not have been allowed public expression.”
Bloom could have been writing of modern America. Sin that once would not have been allowed public expression is now not only condoned, but has been given the stamp of approval by public officials.
Our nation has reached the same point as ancient Israel where evil was no longer considered evil, but good. Isaiah wrote of their decadence in these words: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil” (Isa. 5:20). Their morality was turned upside down. What God called evil, they considered good, and what He called good, they considered evil. As Bloom wrote, “decent people became used to hearing things about which they would have been in the past horrified to think, and which would not have been allowed public expression.”
That’s the sordid picture of our society today. The pagan society in which we live says that every good moral precept that God gave is “evil” and American society says that every immoral evil is “good.”
