Madness! - Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” - Romans 9:20

    It is incumbent upon all true Christians to speak out boldly against the madness that now permeates both our culture, our society, and even many churches. From media pundits to celebrities to athletes to government lawmakers, this festering insanity runs amuck in our towns and cities, in our books, television programing, movies, in our sports complexes, schools and libraries. Even the halls of our government and law drip with this pathological madness. This is nothing new in the history of mankind; it has been with us from the dawn of time and will continue with us to the end times. “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God ...” - 2 Timothy 3:1-4. I am speaking about the modern madness of transgenderism, which is the condition of the mind wherein a person (or persons) believe oneself to be of a gender different from that which they were biologically born. Madness!
    There are only two possibilities within the realm of reality: either they are psychologically delusional and require therapy, or they are being deliberately deceitful with the twisted intention of re-identifying themselves as victims of normal society. As we have seen in recent years, victimology has become a sacred status among the absolute fringes of moral and sane society. It is neither sacred, in the generally accepted understanding of the term, nor a true status except as defined within the parameters of psychopathology.
    God designed human beings His way, not in a state of constant flux, becoming and unbecoming whatever we choose. We are what we are by God’s design and any divergence from that is a direct violation of God’s will.
    Going back to our titular passage, we cannot use a clay jar as a hammer because it wasn’t designed to be a hammer but to be a jar. One cannot properly imagine a glass jar as a framing hammer no matter how hard one tries. To do so is an illustration of delusional imaginings. Such thinking is demented and destructive as well. Remember well the demoniac of Mark 5: “Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.” - Mark 5:5.
    To put it tersely - a refrigerator is not an alligator; a bowlful of broken glass is not cereal; and a boy is not a girl nor vise versa... ever! Now this position does not sit well with those promoting, encouraging, or making a living peddling such madness. We see from Mark’s Gospel that even after Jesus had cured the man of his demons, the crowd was not happy: “And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.” - Mark 5:15. Many apologists for madness say that the crowd was fearful because Jesus had sent the demons into the herd of swine, which then drowned itself in the sea. They argue, “Well, of course the men were angry, the swine was how they made their living!” To which I answer, ‘precisely’. Think about it.
    When we look at the continuing disorder in our world, we have to wonder why the authorities simply don’t put an end to it. We can come to a reasonably sound conclusion when we seek the wisdom of the old adage - “Follow the money.” From the monstrous fatality rates of opioid addiction to the ridiculous cost of life-saving drugs to the sickness of body mutilation to abortion, it’s easy to see that most insane self-expression related issues could be quickly solved by simply following the designs of our Creator: “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.” - Isaiah 64:8. Let us all regain our sanity in this mad world of changing morals, changing ethics, changing desires, and changing sexes. If we return to God, He will return to us.