The severest judgment on the modern world ever made was John Paul II s description of ours as a culture of death. For verification, one with the stomach for it need only scan the media. Wise parents keep their children from the government schools and restrict the use of television to VCRs and videos of their choosing. Theirs is the culture of life. The culture of death is a negation of what human culture ought to be.
Evil is never a rival of the good.
It necessarily passes when it has destroyed as much as it can. But the good prevails. This may seem a remark of chuckle-headed optimism, and so it would be if it were a prediction about some future point in history. But it is a conviction that comes with faith. The wheat and chaff will coexist until the end of time.