By Richard Harris for THRIVE! NEWS
The gunfire that rang out in Manhattan last week wasn’t just a tragic headline — it was a symptom of a nation in moral collapse. A man walked down one of the busiest streets in America with a rifle in hand and committed cold-blooded murder in broad daylight. Cameras caught it. Police scrambled. News anchors speculated. And the cycle of outrage and confusion continued. But if we’re being honest, this wasn’t surprising. Tragic? Absolutely. But shocking? Not anymore.
What we’re seeing in America is what the Bible warned us about in Romans 1:28: “Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind.” That’s where we are. A culture that has expelled God from public life now finds itself unable to distinguish right from wrong, good from evil or male from female.
Every time a mass killing happens, politicians and pundits jump to the usual scripts: “We need more gun control laws. We need more mental health services. We need more programs.” But how is that working out for New York City — one of the most woke, regulated and surveilled cities in the world?
New York has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. It has one-half the police force it had under Rudy Giuliani and six times the murder rate.
What we’re witnessing is not just social dysfunction — it’s spiritual decay. The conscience of our nation is seared, and the fear of God is all but gone.
