Why did an 18-year-old white supremacist man walk into a Buffalo supermarket and mow down innocent people in a racially-inspired mass murder?
Why did a Chinese U.S. citizen in California a day later walk into a Christian church of Taiwanese Americans, killing one parishioner and wounding ten others even as these people were worshiping?
Why did a Wisconsin man who espoused Black nationalism drive a car through a Christmas parade last November, fatally striking six and injuring dozens, including senior citizens and children?
Why are innocent people in Chicago—mostly minority citizens—slaughtered almost daily and America barely yawns at the news?
Why does a hate filled antisemite man walk into a Pittsburgh synagogue firing a gun during Shabbat morning services killing eleven people and wounded six, including several Holocaust survivors?
Why are hundreds of thousands of people—many young—fatally overdosing on fentanyl that was smuggled across our porous border with Mexico?
Why do men who are responsible for fathering children fail to be the Dad those children need to have so those kids have a chance of grow up to be productive and responsible citizens?
Why were 886,677 innocent lives aborted in America in 2019-2020?
Why do men and women freely enter marriage swearing to “have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part,” then abandon one another when trouble interrupts their bliss, leaving innocent children to live in a broken family?
Why do children of broken families have a greater propensity to drug abuse, violence, and crime, to say nothing of a predisposition for divorce?
Why do people we elect to public office seem to forget that they are servants and the people that elect them are the sovereign?
Why do people think they have right to drink themselves into a stupor and then hop behind the wheel of a car, only to kill another person in a horrible crash?
Why do adults provide drugs and alcohol to their minor children—as long as they “party” at home—in violation of the law?
Why do some men and women think it’s permissible to have carnal relations with a child?
Why do people enter a store and loot it in broad daylight and then walk out without a hint of remorse carrying goods that they did not pay for?
Why would a state employee defraud Virginia and U.S. taxpayers out of more than $1.1 million in COVID-19 relief funds by submitting bogus applications using the identities of state prison inmates or personal identification information of unsuspecting Virginians from a government database?
Why do people who swear allegiance to the U.S. proceed to share or compromise national security classified information for financial, ideological, or political gain?
Why do parents who insist their children show them respect don’t call their own parents on holidays?
Why do people who use foul language complain when their children cuss a blue streak?
Why do people who complain that Church is irrelevant to young people never volunteer to help a young person?
Why do people complain vociferously about waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending, but then fabricate the deductions on their income tax return?
Why do people who ask for prayer forget to pray for others?
Why are we so angry about people who are angry?
Why are we quick to condemn things that offend us, but take offense when we are taken to task for the offensive things we do?
Why do we think it is wrong to lie, but engage in excuses that are fabrications?
Why do we find it so hard to say, “that’s my fault” but so easy to say, “that’s your fault?”
Why on earth would we think that all of these other “why” questions are not rooted in a fundamental problem that we seem to ignore?
To that point, why do we think sin is an irrelevant concept?
Our Founders weren’t perfect men. Some in fact had profound vices. But they nonetheless submitted to the idea of a Creator God who ordered the universe with truth and mercy. Many of them, no doubt, were grateful for that mercy because then knew they lived in a fallen world that needed a loving and caring God who would sacrifice His own Son for the sins of all of us. Our Founders knew and believed that. I do. Once upon a time, many Americans believed this also. But increasingly Americans have turned away from God as so much sentimentality. We turn at our own risk. Want proof?
Just ask yourself any of the “why” questions posed above. And then ask yourself this: “What should I do?”
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