We are INSANE!

I read this morning of the teenager who was recently arrested in Indiana for plotting to kill fellow students and teachers at his high school. Apparently, this troubled youth has been scheming with an older friend, who, at the age of 33, ought to know better, to massacre more people than any other rampage we have witnessed to date. They were caught because law enforcement officials found emails and posts to blog sites approving such atrocities as the Columbine shooting in Colorado a few years ago.

The Apostle Paul calls this type of behavior INSANE!

In Romans 1:28 (ESV), he says that "since [certain people] did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done." And then, in v. 32 (ESV), he continues describing the insane by saying that "they not only do [the things they ought not to do] but [they also] give approval to those who practice them."

Doesn't this describe our world? Not only do we have troubled teens with DEBASED MINDS doing what they ought not to do, but we also have troubled young-and-old-alike approving of those who do the things they ought not to do. It is not just a matter of not knowing RIGHT from WRONG. We are approving of what is WRONG as though it was actually RIGHT!

That is the textbook definition of insanity.

I'm sure that this sad incident could have been averted and these two troubled individuals saved from such manifestations of aggression and anger had the school in Indiana only adopted the U.K.'s new policy of piping in soothing music into the hallways and using aroma-therapy techniques! (Insert tongue in cheek at this point!)