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Home/Biblical and Theological/I’m Tired of Pretending This Is Normal

I’m Tired of Pretending This Is Normal

We’re not in a political crisis. We’re in a Romans 1 reprobation spiral.

Written by Virgil Walker | Monday, June 23, 2025

Drag queens are treated like spiritual leaders while pastors act like influencers. We live in a time where stating the obvious can get you canceled. But silence is not love. And neutrality is not holiness. Christian, if you’re waiting for the culture to turn itself around, it won’t. This madness ends only one way: when the Church stops acting like a chaplain to a pagan empire and starts proclaiming truth like prophets in the wilderness.

 

A few weeks ago, I spoke with a mother after a weekend of preaching at her church. She pulled me aside, eyes weary, and asked how she should handle a heartbreaking situation. Her adult daughter had moved back home and recently came out as a lesbian. But that wasn’t all, she wanted to bring her “partner” to live with her in the house. The daughter framed it as a roommate arrangement, but the mother knew the truth. She was torn between extending hospitality as a parent and upholding righteousness in her home. Her voice trembled with grief as she said, “I want to love her, but I can’t pretend this is okay.”

I didn’t have a clever answer, just a burdened heart. Because I know she’s not alone.

There’s a spiritual sickness in the land.

And the most insane thing about it?

We’re told to nod along like everything’s fine.

A man puts on lipstick, calls himself “mom,” and we’re supposed to smile and say, “Beautiful.”

A child says he’s pansexual at 12, and we’re expected to applaud his “bravery.”

A drag queen gyrates in front of a cross in a church sanctuary, and the congregation claps.

I’m tired of pretending this is normal.

Because it’s not.

It’s demonic.

This Isn’t Progress. It’s Paganism.

What we’re seeing isn’t the evolution of civilization, it’s a return to Babel.

We’ve traded truth for tolerance, and now we’re choking on the fumes of our own delusion.

Romans 1 says that when a people suppress the truth of God, He gives them over.
Not just to sin—but to insanity (Romans 1:28).

“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind…” (Romans 1:28)

This is where we are.

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