I'm having a very, very hard time dealing with the evil that surrounds me.  It has increased a hundred-fold in the past decades; most noticeably since the year 2000, it seems to have gotten worse.  Much, much worse.

The city in which we live has gone down the tubes the past two years or so - crime, murder, ѕυιcιdєs, drug dealers and increased usage (primarily meth and heroin), sex slaves/human trafficking in our city.  The police department arrests them, the judges let them go and they are back on the streets and in business.    If things go on like this, and if people do not start getting justice, they are going to create a vigilante society.   Maybe that is what they want.

Good God, how can He allow all of this to go on?  Especially when it comes to human trafficking - most the girls are young - many are little girls.  Some of the adolescent girls are fed drugs while used for elite prostitution (by that I mean, the price tag on them is so steep, only the wealthy can afford them) until they get pregnant.  Once the baby is delivered, it is sold to whomever for whatever nefarious purposes.

It's not going away but only getting worse.  The Church which used to be a haven for us and a safe refuge, is nothing of a sort today.  Our traditional chapels are full of compromisers who live with one foot in one world and the other foot in another.

There is no priest to talk to.  They are all too busy running here and there.  

Am I alone?  Is there anyone else here that is going through something similar or maybe the same?

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I'm having a very, very hard time dealing with the evil that surrounds me.  It has increased a hundred-fold in the past decades; most noticeably since the year 2000, it seems to have gotten worse.  Much, much worse.

The city in which we live has gone down the tubes the past two years or so - crime, murder, ѕυιcιdєs, drug dealers and increased usage (primarily meth and heroin), sex slaves/human trafficking in our city.  The police department arrests them, the judges let them go and they are back on the streets and in business.    If things go on like this, and if people do not start getting justice, they are going to create a vigilante society.   Maybe that is what they want.

Good God, how can He allow all of this to go on?  Especially when it comes to human trafficking - most the girls are young - many are little girls.  Some of the adolescent girls are fed drugs while used for elite prostitution (by that I mean, the price tag on them is so steep, only the wealthy can afford them) until they get pregnant.  Once the baby is delivered, it is sold to whomever for whatever nefarious purposes.

It's not going away but only getting worse.  The Church which used to be a haven for us and a safe refuge, is nothing of a sort today.  Our traditional chapels are full of compromisers who live with one foot in one world and the other foot in another.

There is no priest to talk to.  They are all too busy running here and there.  

Am I alone?  Is there anyone else here that is going through something similar or maybe the same?

I am so sick of how stupid and evil so many people have become. I have neighbors who are spending lots of free time continually putting chemicals on their lawns and even mowing the lawn when it doesn't need mowing. All this madness needs to stop. Most everyone is willingly self-destructing the earth and the oceans. They are morally bankrupt and seem to have no desire to change. Hell on earth is here.

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I'm having a very, very hard time dealing with the evil that surrounds me.  It has increased a hundred-fold in the past decades; most noticeably since the year 2000, it seems to have gotten worse.  Much, much worse.

The city in which we live has gone down the tubes the past two years or so - crime, murder, ѕυιcιdєs, drug dealers and increased usage (primarily meth and heroin), sex slaves/human trafficking in our city.  The police department arrests them, the judges let them go and they are back on the streets and in business.    If things go on like this, and if people do not start getting justice, they are going to create a vigilante society.   Maybe that is what they want.

Good God, how can He allow all of this to go on?  Especially when it comes to human trafficking - most the girls are young - many are little girls.  Some of the adolescent girls are fed drugs while used for elite prostitution (by that I mean, the price tag on them is so steep, only the wealthy can afford them) until they get pregnant.  Once the baby is delivered, it is sold to whomever for whatever nefarious purposes.

It's not going away but only getting worse.  The Church which used to be a haven for us and a safe refuge, is nothing of a sort today.  Our traditional chapels are full of compromisers who live with one foot in one world and the other foot in another.

There is no priest to talk to.  They are all too busy running here and there.  

Am I alone?  Is there anyone else here that is going through something similar or maybe the same?

I am so sick of how stupid and evil so many people have become. I have neighbors who are spending lots of free time continually putting chemicals on their lawns and even mowing the lawn when it doesn't need mowing. All this madness needs to stop. Most everyone is willingly self-destructing the earth and the oceans. They are morally bankrupt and seem to have no desire to change. Hell on earth is here.

I, too, am developing contempt for the majority of people, but I have to be very careful with that.  It is true that there but for the grace of God go I.  I try to counter my contempt by praying for them, but it gets harder to do every day.

We, too, have neighbors obsessed with stupidity - be it mowing their lawns every day, their silly gardens which all of nature is supposed to be aware of and not ruin (these people drive me insane), or some other inanity that has no bearing on the salvation of their soul.

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I'm having a very, very hard time dealing with the evil that surrounds me.  It has increased a hundred-fold in the past decades; most noticeably since the year 2000, it seems to have gotten worse.  Much, much worse.

The city in which we live has gone down the tubes the past two years or so - crime, murder, ѕυιcιdєs, drug dealers and increased usage (primarily meth and heroin), sex slaves/human trafficking in our city.  The police department arrests them, the judges let them go and they are back on the streets and in business.    If things go on like this, and if people do not start getting justice, they are going to create a vigilante society.   Maybe that is what they want.

Good God, how can He allow all of this to go on?  Especially when it comes to human trafficking - most the girls are young - many are little girls.  Some of the adolescent girls are fed drugs while used for elite prostitution (by that I mean, the price tag on them is so steep, only the wealthy can afford them) until they get pregnant.  Once the baby is delivered, it is sold to whomever for whatever nefarious purposes.

It's not going away but only getting worse.  The Church which used to be a haven for us and a safe refuge, is nothing of a sort today.  Our traditional chapels are full of compromisers who live with one foot in one world and the other foot in another.

There is no priest to talk to.  They are all too busy running here and there.  

Am I alone?  Is there anyone else here that is going through something similar or maybe the same?

I am so sick of how stupid and evil so many people have become. I have neighbors who are spending lots of free time continually putting chemicals on their lawns and even mowing the lawn when it doesn't need mowing. All this madness needs to stop. Most everyone is willingly self-destructing the earth and the oceans. They are morally bankrupt and seem to have no desire to change. Hell on earth is here.

I, too, am developing contempt for the majority of people, but I have to be very careful with that.  It is true that there but for the grace of God go I.  I try to counter my contempt by praying for them, but it gets harder to do every day.

We, too, have neighbors obsessed with stupidity - be it mowing their lawns every day, their silly gardens which all of nature is supposed to be aware of and not ruin (these people drive me insane), or some other inanity that has no bearing on the salvation of their soul.

Another very scary trend I am noticing, as situations across the earth become more desperate,  many people, as they are becoming increasingly angrier, are very intent on finding other people to blame for the earths problems instead of admitting the effects of original sin on everyone. They so desperately want to believe they can continue their present lifestyle indefinitely, they will wrongly accuse certain people or certain groups of people for causing these problems to the point of wanting innocent people dead.

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I'm having a very, very hard time dealing with the evil that surrounds me.  It has increased a hundred-fold in the past decades; most noticeably since the year 2000, it seems to have gotten worse.  Much, much worse.

The city in which we live has gone down the tubes the past two years or so - crime, murder, ѕυιcιdєs, drug dealers and increased usage (primarily meth and heroin), sex slaves/human trafficking in our city.  The police department arrests them, the judges let them go and they are back on the streets and in business.    If things go on like this, and if people do not start getting justice, they are going to create a vigilante society.   Maybe that is what they want.

Good God, how can He allow all of this to go on?  Especially when it comes to human trafficking - most the girls are young - many are little girls.  Some of the adolescent girls are fed drugs while used for elite prostitution (by that I mean, the price tag on them is so steep, only the wealthy can afford them) until they get pregnant.  Once the baby is delivered, it is sold to whomever for whatever nefarious purposes.

It's not going away but only getting worse.  The Church which used to be a haven for us and a safe refuge, is nothing of a sort today.  Our traditional chapels are full of compromisers who live with one foot in one world and the other foot in another.

There is no priest to talk to.  They are all too busy running here and there.  

Am I alone?  Is there anyone else here that is going through something similar or maybe the same?

I am so sick of how stupid and evil so many people have become. I have neighbors who are spending lots of free time continually putting chemicals on their lawns and even mowing the lawn when it doesn't need mowing. All this madness needs to stop. Most everyone is willingly self-destructing the earth and the oceans. They are morally bankrupt and seem to have no desire to change. Hell on earth is here.

I, too, am developing contempt for the majority of people, but I have to be very careful with that.  It is true that there but for the grace of God go I.  I try to counter my contempt by praying for them, but it gets harder to do every day.

We, too, have neighbors obsessed with stupidity - be it mowing their lawns every day, their silly gardens which all of nature is supposed to be aware of and not ruin (these people drive me insane), or some other inanity that has no bearing on the salvation of their soul.

Another very scary trend I am noticing, as situations across the earth become more desperate,  many people, as they are becoming increasingly angrier, are very intent on finding other people to blame for the earths problems instead of admitting the effects of original sin on everyone. They so desperately want to believe they can continue their present lifestyle indefinitely, they will wrongly accuse certain people or certain groups of people for causing these problems to the point of wanting innocent people dead.

You're right - the victim mentality - no one takes responsibility for their actions.  It is always everyone else's or someone else's fault.  Or else they blame it on some mental illness - real or imagined - just so they have an excuse for their bad conduct.

It's all over and getting worse.

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Can anyone help me with what to do to deal with it?  Please believe me when I say that it is getting to be more than I can handle.  It's made worse because of my age and remembering a sane Church and a saner country - so I know more than those who were born into the cesspool what is was like before it became one.

keeping a strong prayer life, receiving Catholic Sacraments often, and reading good Catholic books are very important in these times. God has a plan, and as far as I concerned, it can't come soon enough. Life is getting more difficult everyday.

It can't come soon enough for me either.

God bless you for your advice.  Please keep me in your prayers.