[The Urban Sombrero]

There is more crime in this country right now in one day, than there used to be in a whole month back in 1952. According to Scripture, the state of man will be severely depraved just prior to the end. How does that scenario work with those Émile Coué rose colored glasses you're looking through?

I would say prior to the Big Rain the state of man was entirely depraved. I would say no one dies these days from infected tonsils. I would say potable water reaches nigh 99% of all Americans, minus Flint.

I have tried to find where I have ignored the massive problems and "the human heart is desperately wicked" evidence all around. I can't find it. However, just to simply bash everything is to make a fundamental theological error I saw through clearly years ago.

The suggestion that in many ways life in 2016 is preferable to 1952 seems non-controversial to me. In saying that, one is not ignoring the negative, the wicked, the horrific in my view. The good seed grows in the midst of the tares. I doubt it offends God that polio is almost gone from the face of the earth.