What happened to our world?

Various things (including a ridiculous news article and C.S. Lewis's space trilogy) have gotten me thinking on the state of our planet. What went wrong? Such evilness floods our lives, threatening to devour and overwhelm us. So many evils...abortion...gay marriage...divorce...socialism...twisted men...I can hardly begin. Now I understand what happened, what really went wrong in our world.

It was The Fall.

Our First Parents knew that something would happen when they touched the forbidden fruit. I'm not sure they fully understood the implications but they were far from innocent. If there had been a Ransom to keep Eve from her daring and irrevocably evil deed, we would not have lost Eden. Neither would we have gained anything. He came to settle the score and open a gateway for us. Then, we turned our backs and went whistling down the street. We keep on traipsing farther and farther, and, until we turn around, we shouldn't expect anything to change. The view is still the same and will be until we do something about it.