God truly does hold things together . . . and how quickly things are unraveling here. We are definitely on the down side of this roller coaster ride.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
See also: Paul E. Scates: Thirty Pieces Of Silver: How Christians Betrayed America, Too -- He writes:
Though modern 'liberalism' is supposedly all about equality, justice and freedom, we all have less freedom, less justice and less equality now than forty years ago and it keeps getting worse! Yet we still refuse to admit our mistake.~~~The mistake is that Christians failed to live out their beliefs, allowing man´s new´ ideas and philosophies to replace those beliefs as society´s foundation. But those ideas are as old as the Garden. We traded the Founding moral and political principles for humanism, moral relativism, meaningless spirituality´ and a fragmented society.
And from another site:
Look What Your Social Security Dollars Pay ForMore than 48,500 American children were taken in 1999 from homes where no abuse or neglect was found. [1]
Meanwhile, millions of children living with the terror of child abuse are left without protection by a system that is bogged down with frivolous caseloads that are tearing loving families apart and robbing billions from the Social Security Trust Fund. Protect your family, your freedom, and your future now. ... Source
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1 *Child Maltreatment 1999: Reports from the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS).