When things get rough and the crisis of life demand character and strength, we run for a pill and drift to lala land rather than face the problem with Christ. I want to tell you something, Jesus Christ is greater than any problem you may have and Jesus Christ is the answer for any problem you possess. If we will cling to Him instead of the bottle, He will deliver you and give you the answer. Drinking is synthetic joy, alcoholic beverages. From a spineless, phoney nothing, to William the Conqueror.
Escapism is an American synthetic joy.
Joy does not come to the man or woman who denounces anything and everything that places a strain on their conscience. We are no longer sinners, we are with it. We have just redefined the evil. Whenever we have a national crisis, rather than hold the line in the law, we change the law to include the corruption of the evil. If we continue on this course, as an American society, we'll have to change the national emblem from that of an eagle to that of a buzzard.