RIOTS AMERICAN STYLE

"A mindless mob with violent intent descended upon a children’s hospital in Houston this week and even as a child screamed out in terror, the attack continued. The mob threw bricks into the windshield of the child’s father’s vehicle."

"Rioting and looting has spread to a lot of cities including Rochester, New York. There was a horrible beating of a woman outside a business after she tried to stop people from smashing the windows of the Rochester Fire Equipment Company.

"The woman and her husband lived above the store. The group apparently had been trying to loot a jewelry store next door. As the woman talked to the small mob, they suddenly turn and started attacking her, one woman punching her and another man beat her with a board and the others joined in the attack. Her husband tried to come to the defense of his wife with a golf club but then they turned on him."

Richmond Police Chief William Smith said: “One incident that is particularly poignant, that truly illustrates the seriousness of the issues we’re facing is that last night protesters [i. e. rioters] intentionally set fire to an occupied building on [West] Broad Street. This is not the only occupied building that has been set on fire in the last two days. But they prohibited us from getting on the scene. We had to force our way to make a clear path for the fire department. The protesters intercepted the fire apparatus several blocks away with vehicles and blocked that fire department’s access to the structure fire. Inside that home was a child.”

"One authority said on Monday that he estimates businesses in the Twin Cities will make insurance claims totaling at least $500 million — from buildings that were burned down or damaged, merchandise is stolen or ruined, and lost revenue. That estimate doesn’t include damage to public infrastructures, such as the 3rd police precinct in Minneapolis, or large corporations because they are self-insured. Also not included are businesses that didn’t have insurance."

What kind of people throw bricks at a car window in which they know are people with a baby? What kind of people set fire to a house in which they know a child is inside and then block a fire truck trying to get to it? What kind of people attack a woman and her husband?

There is the biblical answer to that question: people who have no moral compass to guide them;  people who have taken God out of every public venue; people who've been instructed that they have no accountability and no fear of any human or divine authority; people who are convinced that they are a god who can decide from day to day what's right. And . . .

People straight out of Romans 1: people who "even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened;" a people who "professing to be wise, they became fools;" a people who "just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, ²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; ³² and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."

The brilliant Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman who traversed a much younger America in 1835-1839, wrote  four volumes titled, "Democracy in America" in which he said that our nation was bound together by "the habits of the heart." 

He defined the habits of the heart as "those morally binding customs, general opinions, and attitudes that shaped the mental habits and intellectual dispositions of the people. These ideas and habitual practices slowly and organically melded together diverse people into a unified one. The habits of the heart made Americans intensely patriotic. 

[The habits of the heart] "attached Americans to family and community. They made Americans staunch defenders of private property, free enterprise, hard and honest work, resourcefulness and ingenuity, and thus, vehemently anti-socialist and anti-communist. Above all, these habits of the heart made America very religious. (John Hovart II)

Fallen man hates the habits of the heart because they are the fruit of a society based on the Bible. Fallen man, hostile to the Bible, seeks to destroy the habits of the heart and wants to replace them with crushing government programs and regulations, but it is only these habits of the heart that can make America great again. 

In replacing the habits of the heart, we march into a howling wilderness of a culture in which every man does that which is right in his own eyes. 

As Tristan Justice writes, "Make no mistake, the nation has gone mad."