The current cultural shift regarding gender represents a profound departure from reality, descending into what can only be described as madness. This gender madness, evident in the proliferation of bizarre identities, reflects various mental disorders, a state once plainly called craziness or being out of one's mind. With lists of over a hundred supposed genders, including notions tied to cosmic or infinite concepts, the absurdity is clear. We are allowing the inmates to run the cultural asylum, embracing a chaos that defies common sense and truth. God help us to remain steadfast as this age approaches its end, facing even greater challenges promised to come.

Modern society, particularly in the United States, appears to have descended into a kind of collective madness—a departure from the sound reasoning and practical wisdom that once characterized a nation of pioneers and achievers who filled a continent, fed the world, and reached the moon. Where such accomplishments once rested on knowledge and reason applied toward workable solutions, soundness of mind has become rare. Rather than facts and outcomes, decisions across many areas of life are now driven by manipulated hopes and fears, with people easily swayed by superficial charm, enthusiasm, and clever persuasion instead of substance. This irrationality manifests in numerous specific ways: the termination of 1.2 million unborn children annually in a nation that claims to value life and liberty; the legalization of euthanasia; the spread of homosexual unions across several states without regard for their societal consequences; and the presence of millions of illegal aliens straining resources while demanding more, sowing lawlessness. Financial madness compounds these moral and social failures—Americans carry enormous personal debt, save almost nothing, and pour money into lotteries and casinos despite terrible odds, often those least able to afford such losses. Even homes, once the most stable of investments, are abandoned to banks when their value collapses. Physical self-destruction mirrors this pattern of unsound choices. Despite widespread complaints about healthcare costs, people continue to indulge in high-calorie, high-fat, high-sugar food, coupled with sedentary living, smoking, heavy drinking, sexual promiscuity, and other risky behaviors. The predictable results—obesity, stress, and illness—have swollen the healthcare industry into a massive sector of the economy, and the proposed political solution to this crisis is itself judged to be absurd and irrational, as noted through commentary such as Rush Limbaugh's remarks on the matter. Against this backdrop of societal madness, a contrast is drawn for God's spiritual people, His church, who need not be swept into this plague of irrationality. Scripture affirms that God has not given believers a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind, and that they possess the mind of Christ, enabling them to see, ponder, and choose rightly with wisdom and foresight. This equips Christians to expose the nonsense of the world and to offer the proven answers found in God's Word. The call is to walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil, and to understand what the will of the Lord is. As confusion and nonsense continue to mount in the world, believers are urged to seek God and His Word without delay, for what alone makes eternal sense amid a world that has lost its senses.

The question of whether America has "gone crazy" frames an examination of modern social and political behavior, particularly the proliferation of some thirty distinct gender categories where only two existed for six thousand years of human history. Such multiplication of categories does not bring clarity but confusion, since the original biological distinction between male and female, based on observable physical characteristics, has been subdivided through the addition of psychological attributes. This expansion is fueled by those who believe they gain personally from adopting new identities, by media outlets that profit from reporting sensational news, and by politicians who pander to these movements to secure votes and maintain public visibility. Examining the word "crazy" itself proves illuminating: it originally meant "full of cracks," carrying connotations of being flawed, unsound, or impractical. Over time, its meaning shifted toward psychological conditions, becoming associated with madness, insanity, and unusual behavior. In contemporary usage, calling something "crazy" signals an exaggerated, often transient enthusiasm or obsession, a warning to handle the person or situation with caution and distrust. This transformation of the term's meaning parallels the disorienting transformation occurring in society itself, where behaviors once considered flawed or unsound are now embraced as progressive advancement. This craziness is understood as one more attention-getting bandwagon, a mass social movement that has been gaining momentum for decades and shows no sign of stopping except through Jesus Christ's return or societal collapse into civil war. What makes this movement so successful is that it appeals directly to inborn carnality, while simultaneously benefiting from the most advanced media technology in history to advertise its supposed advantages. This movement is known by various names, including humanism, secularism, and most broadly, liberalism, a term that is deceptive because it does not inherently signify evil but depends entirely on context for its moral valence. The connection between this societal madness and a larger spiritual reality becomes explicit through the identification of Satan, described in Ezekiel 28, as the first being pointedly shown as liberal in thinking. His departure from the broad standard of behavior God established, a standard that allowed considerable latitude for righteous self-expression while maintaining boundaries beyond which lay sin and death, stemmed from self-centeredness, the very essence of carnality. Liberalism as a mindset and movement is thus attributed to having been designed by the mind of Satan the Devil. The apparent madness of contemporary gender confusion and social upheaval, therefore, is not merely a cultural curiosity but is connected to a much deeper spiritual pattern rooted in self-centered deviation from divine order, one that stands in stark contrast to genuine devotion to Jesus Christ, who commands no bandwagon effect and offers no such carnal appeal.

The source never names madness directly; its closest teaching concerns a society so saturated with lies that reality turns upside down. Truth has fallen in the street, and justice and equity cannot enter (Isaiah 59:14-15). Leaders contradict themselves about masks and vaccines, blame the unvaccinated, and even call them murderers. Those who speak against the narrative are cancelled. The innocent are condemned and the guilty are acquitted. Criminals are to be paid $1000 to reduce crime, a scheme that amounts to mafia-style protection money. Rulers lie so much that they come to believe their own lies, and so justice and lies cannot mix. People who depart from evil make themselves prey, and honest believers can be destroyed for refusing to agree. The condition resembles the days of Noah, when every intent of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually, and the LORD was grieved and displeased (Genesis 6:5-6; Luke 17:26). Dresden James's words explain the inversion: when a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses, the truth seems utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. The sane are branded lunatics, and the lie is taken for truth. This sets the stage for the time of the end and Christ's return.

God promises madness, blindness, and confusion of heart as a curse on those who disobey His voice and fail to keep His commandments and statutes (Deuteronomy 28:15, 28-29). Understanding comes with following His commandments, so breaking them destroys understanding. This mental affliction is worse than the physical curses of Deuteronomy 28, because amid other curses a person can still analyze what is happening and perhaps find a way to deal with it. Madness and confusion of heart take away the ability to discern rationally, so the person cannot understand what is occurring, let alone identify a real solution like repentance and returning to God. Those so cursed grope aimlessly at noonday like a blind man in darkness, and the solutions they choose cannot work because they exclude God. The nations of Israel suffer many curses today, yet they are blind to the cause-and-effect relationship and give little thought to national immorality as the source of their problems. Many are uncomfortable with God's willingness to remove understanding and wisdom, and they do not believe He means what He says. One might assume Satan is the source of such madness, yet God Himself claims responsibility for it. Satan deceives and distorts, but God is the One who strikes with madness.

Madness is the end result of sin's invitation to Satan into a person's mind. Fools, not wise men, reject God (Psalm 14:1), and sin opens the mind to Satan, whose influence ultimately produces insanity. The two Gadarene men, possessed by a legion of demons, lived in a horrific state of restless wandering among the tombs and mountains, uncontrollable and untamable, and without clothing or shame. When Christ delivered them, they regained their sanity and were found sitting, clothed, and in their "right mind" (Mark 5:15; Luke 8:35). That phrase indicates not only sanity but also self-control, the control of thoughts and actions. When a demon is removed, the mind is cleaned of chaos and made orderly. Yet as Jesus warns in Luke 11:24-25, the swept and ordered house is vulnerable to the unclean spirit's return, so a person must fill what was emptied with God's Spirit and truth. The same lack of control marks evil people generally, who cannot govern their desires and whom society cannot restrain, so crime rages on. The answer is living God's way of life as revealed in Christ, for God gives the right mind that bears the fruit of the Spirit, including self-control (Galatians 5:23).