There is much more to the collapse of America than just our economic problems.  The truth is that the United States is like a beautiful house that may still look great on the outside but that has rotted and decayed very badly on the inside.  In fact, the foundations of our country have rotted away so badly that our entire society is starting to collapse. 

 Just look at James Holmes.  It would be great if we could honestly say that James Holmes is an aberration, but we all know better than that.  James Holmes is not alone.  The cold, hard reality of the matter is that our degenerate society regularly produces sickos and monsters like James Holmes. 

As I wrote about the other day, we lead the world in a whole host of bad categories.  We lead the world in child abuse, we lead the world in divorce, we lead the world in teen pregnancy and we lead the world in drug addiction.  The basic building blocks of society that tie us together and help keep us grounded (such as the family) are breaking down, but we still seem surprised that we have hordes of "lone wolf individuals" running around doing crazy things. 

We are a sick, twisted society that is producing sick, twisted individuals.  If we do not admit how deep our problems really are, then we are never going to find any real solutions and we are going to keep being shocked when another James Holmes pops on to the scene.

Why didn't this type of thing happen back in the 1950s? Why are our young people so violent and so mentally unstable? What has changed?

Those are some very important questions.  But most Americans will forget this incident very quickly and they will move on with their self-absorbed lives.

But there is so much about this shooting that calls for further examination. What would make a highly educated 24 year old man do something so incredibly evil? Why are so many young people suddenly "snapping" these days?

As our society continues to decay, how much worse are things going to get? It is almost to the point where people are going to start becoming afraid of gathering in public places. Most Americans never would have imagined that it would be dangerous to go to the movie theater. But now people are going to look at going to the movies much differently.

And could it have been possible that James Holmes had some help? There are some important questions that the media is not really focusing on in this case....

~ How did an impoverished college student put together an arsenal of weapons, ammunition and body armor worth tens of thousands of dollars?

~ Why do some eyewitnesses claim that he had at least one other person assisting him?

~ Why did he surrender to police without offering any resistance whatsoever?

It would be great if we could get some answers to those questions. In any event, this is yet another sign of how far our society has fallen.  We are becoming more sick and more twisted with each passing day, and it is time to admit this fact.

The following are 20 more examples....

#1. According to CBS, one young man in Oregon has been breaking into homes with the intent of watching pornography on the Internet....

"Police say a 21-year-old Oregon man broke into homes to look at pornography on the Internet, sometimes while the homeowners were inside.

"Eugene police said Thursday they arrested Antone Forrest Deedward Owens on charges of burglary, menacing and coercion. Authorities say he broke into at least three homes since last September, sometimes entering the same home on multiple occasions."

#2. Delaware Pediatrician That Sexually Abused 103 Children

Who is the bigger monster - James Holmes or the Delaware doctor that sexually abused 103 children?  The following is from a recent Natural News article....

"According to reports in 2010, Dr. Earl Bradley, who has since been dubbed 'America's Worst Pedophile,' stood accused of molesting 103 young patients in his office in the tiny town of Lewes, Del., since 1994.

"Detailed in 160 pages of what ABC News described as 'disturbing court documents,' Bradley apparently videotaped his sex acts. The documents said Bradley repeatedly molested his child patients as their parents sat nearby and unsuspecting outside the waiting room of his BayBee's Pediatrics clinic."

#3. Jerry Sandusky was supposed to be a role model.  He was an assistant football coach at Penn State and he was heavily involved in charity work. But it turns out that it was all a lie.  In fact, a whole bunch of people involved in the Penn State football program knew what was going on and did not report it. In the end, Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of 45 counts of sexually abusing young boys.  He has become a national symbol of the depravity which is rotting away the very heart of this nation.

#4. Man That Kept His Wife Chained Up For 10 Years

What would you do to a man that kept his wife chained up for ten years? According to one West Virginia news source, that is exactly what one man down in West Virginia did....

"Earlier this month, Lizon was arrested after police say he kept his wife, Stephanie, chained up for nearly a decade in their home along Miller Hollow Road in Leroy, W.Va.  Lizon is accused of smashing Stephanie's feet with farm equipment and hitting her with a hot frying pan.

"Police say she also had a miscarriage because of the abuse and was forced to have another baby while still chained."

#5. Serial Foot-Licker In New York. Did serial foot-lickers even exist back in the 1950s? Why are there so many of them running around today? The following is from the New York Daily News....

"Police have a possible serial foot-licker in custody after a 49-year-old man was arrested for inappropriately touching two young girls at an upstate New York library.

"Anthony Parri allegedly took off a child's shoe and rubbed the girl’s foot against his nose and mouth in one of two incidents Tuesday at Penfield Library, according to reports.

"One of the alleged attacks happened in an open area in the children's section, library director Bernadette Brickman told WHAM, ABC's affiliate in Rochester. The child's mom and a library employee witnessed the abuse and called the cops, according to the station."

#6. Houston Police Officer Accused Of Raping A Woman While On Duty. Who is supposed to keep all of these sickos under control? The police?... The following is from the Houston Chronicle....

"DNA evidence has linked a Houston police officer to a rape he allegedly committed while on duty last month, according to the Harris County District Attorney's Office. Officer Adan Jimenez Carranza, 32, was being held Friday at the Harris County Jail under a $30,000 bond, charged with aggravated sexual assault of a woman June 18 after a minor traffic accident, court records show."

#7. Philadelphia Police Officer Makes 14 Year Old Girl Watch Him Have Sex With A Prostitute After Sexually Assaulting Her.

If we can't trust the police, then who can we trust? Recently there have been a bunch of reports of sexual misconduct by police in the national news. The following is how Fox News described one particularly disturbing incident from the Philadelphia area....

"A Philadelphia cop was arrested over allegations that he abducted a 14-year-old girl, sexually assaulted her and made her watch him have sex with a prostitute.

"Police found Anthony Dattilo, 36, at a motel in the Bensalem area of the city Wednesday while responding to a possible abduction, according to the Bucks County Courier Times. Dattilo, a 12-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, is reportedly in custody at the Bucks County prison on $500,000 bail."

#8. TSA Agent Spills Grandpa's Ashes And Laughs About It

Almost every single day there is another TSA horror story in the news. But what you are about to read is one of the worst of them all. The following is from an ABC News article....

"John Gross was leaving Florida with the remains of his grandfather  in a tightly sealed jar marked 'Human Remains," ABC Indianapolis  affiliate RTV6 reported.

 “'They opened up my bag, and I told them, ‘Please, be careful. These are my grandpa’s ashes,' Gross told the station. 'She picked up the jar. She opened it up.”

"Gross said the TSA agent used her finger to sift through the ashes and accidentally spilled it. He said one-third to one-half of the ashes spilled and that the agent laughed as he tried to gather what he could from the floor.

“She didn’t apologize. She started laughing. I was on my hands and knees picking up bone fragments. I couldn’t pick up all, everything that was lost. I mean, there was a long line behind me."

#9. Connecticut Man Threatens To Cut The Tongue Out Of The Mouth Of A 3 Year Old Child

What kind of a man would hold up a knife and threaten to cut the tongue out of the mouth of a 3 year old kid? Sadly, that is exactly what happened up in Connecticut recently. The following is from a WFSB report about this incident....

"Police in Vernon are investigating reports that a man held a knife to a child's face and threatened to cut out his tongue.

"On Friday, a woman named Heather Bonneville called police to inform them that a family acquaintance, who has been identified as Roman Fein, held the knife within inches of her 3-year-old son's face before making the threat to cut his tongue out of his mouth."

#10. Naked "Cannibal" Threatens To Eat Police Officers Down In Georgia

Why are so many criminals getting naked lately? Why are so many criminals trying to eat people? The following is from a recent Daily Mail article....

"Karl Laventure, 21, was believed to be high on bath salts when he tried to attack the officers in Lilburn, Georgia. And after they had managed to subdue him he began threatening to eat them.

"Laventure appeared out of some woods and was seen running naked around a golf range near Atlanta, swinging a club around his head and screaming. Police said that it took several officers to subdue the man who had 'super-human strength'."

#11. Public School Administrator In New York Fired For Not Participating In A Gay Orgy

Almost every day there is another story in the news about a new school sex scandal somewhere in America. The following is from Courthouse News Service....

"A public school administrator claims in court that his male boss sexually assaulted him in a hotel room after giving him pornography and trying to get him to join a foursome, then fired him for rebuffing the advances."

#12. Naked Florida Man Bites Chunk From Another Man's Stomach

This year criminals in America seem to have become obsessed with chewing on human flesh. The following example is from a recent Daily Mail article....

"A naked man allegedly flew into a violent rampage, biting a chunk out of another man's stomach after leaping from his roof onto a truck and urinating inside his home. Officers responding to the scene needed backup to restrain Jeremiah Aaron Haughee with leg shackles, a spit hood and handcuffs after he continued fighting despite being Tasered five times.

"Authorities did not carry out tests on Haughee to see if he was under the influence of any drugs. Police first arrived at the home in Flagler Beach, Florida at 4.30 a.m. to find two men restraining the naked 22-year-old in a puddle of urine and glass.

#13. Father Who Killed His 3 Daughters Inside The Home Of His Ex-Wife

You know that society is really starting to break down when parents start killing their own children. What one man up in Wisconsin is being charged with is absolutely horrific. The following is from a recent CNN article....

"A 34-year-old father was being held by authorities Wednesday in connection with the deaths of his three daughters, who were found inside his ex-wife's Wisconsin home with the gas fireplace turned on, officials said."

#14. Pregnant Woman Set On Fire In Detroit

These days not even pregnant women are immune to violence. What one pregnant woman up in Detroit went through recently is hard to stomach....

"A 22-year-old pregnant woman survived after being bound, driven to Detroit, set on fire and shot early Saturday morning. The woman, who was nine-months pregnant, had returned from a movie with her boyfriend and dropped him off at his house in Warren when she was approached from behind, Warren police Sgt. Dave Geffert said.

"The woman's hands, feet and eyes were bound with duct tape. She was then forced into her car and driven to an unknown place in Detroit where she was doused with lighter fluid, set on fire and shot once in the upper back, he said."

#15. New Jersey Man Throws His Own Intestines At Police

If the police were breaking into your home, would you cut out your own entrails and throw them at the police? According to the Huffington Post, that is exactly what one man up in New Jersey did....

"A New Jersey man allegedly cut out his entrails in front of police and then threw bits of his flesh and intestines at them. The gruesome scene played out at a home in Hackensack, N.J., where 43-year-old Wayne Carter allegedly barricaded himself in on Sunday, NBC New York reported.

"Officers got a call that morning when a witness said Carter was threatening to harm himself with a knife. Two cops responded, kicked in the door and found Carter in the corner, the station reported. Carter allegedly ignored officers' orders to put down the knife, and instead began stabbing himself in the abdomen, neck and legs."

#16. Naked Man Brutally Murders A Hotel Maid

Why would anyone want to kill a 62 year old cleaning woman? Many of the crimes that are being committed today are absolutely senseless. The following is how the CBS affiliate in Sacramento reported this story....

"A naked man who may have been on drugs was arrested Saturday for killing a Tracy motel employee. Andrew Carreiro, 25, is behind bars accused of killing the 62-year-old woman who cleans rooms at the Hacienda Inn on the 600 block of West 11th Street. Witnesses say they found Carreiro covered in blood and standing near the partially naked body of the woman, say witnesses.

"[It’s] most definitely the craziest thing I’ve seen in my life, most definitely,' said Jermaine Haynes, a motel resident who made the gruesome discovery."

#17. Crack-Fueled Sickos Abduct A Female Jogger

These days you are not safe anywhere in the country. Just check out what happened to one math teacher from Montana. The following is how a Daily Mail article described what two very sick drug addicts did to her....

"After smoking crack cocaine over the entire trip, Waters allegedly told Spell the drug 'brought the devil out in him' and began talking about kidnapping and killing a female, AP reports. After they spotted Arnold, Spell claims that Waters told him to 'grab the lady' and pull her into their Ford Explorer as she jogged by.

'Spell said Waters got into the back seat with the female and 'choked her out',' the affidavit states.

"After dropping Arnold's body in a rural area of North Dakota later that night, Waters bought a shovel at a nearby Walmart. They buried the body in a two- to three-feet-deep hole on an old farmstead."

#18. Female Teacher Has Sex With Four Male Students

Why are so many public school teachers having sex with their students? Don't they realize that they will inevitably get caught? Aren't the dozens of other school sex scandals in the news sufficient warnings? The following is from the NBC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona...

"A new police report reveals racy, disturbing details of the alleged relationships between an Ironwood Ridge High School teacher and four of her students. Oro Valley Police picked up Melissa Dalton April 30th booking her on four counts of sexual conduct with a minor. She posted bail and got out the next day.

"Subsequently more Ironwood Ridge students came forward with more allegations. That prompted the Oro Valley Police Department to add eight more counts including six of sex with a minor. Melissa Dalton was in her first year teaching at Ironwood Ridge High School. The 33 year old is a wife and mother."

#19. Texas House Of Horrors

The nightmares that were happening in one quiet house in Texas are so horrifying that it is hard to find the words to describe them. The following is from a New York Daily News article....

"Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds.

"Along with the children, 10 adults were living in the one-story, 1,700-square-foot home in Dayton, about 30 miles northeast of Houston, Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter said. One month after a raid on the house, authorities are still trying to determine how the children are related and why they were there, she said."

#20. Florida Man Bites The Lips Off Of A Kitten

What kind of a monster would bite the lips off of a kitten? It is hard to imagine anyone actually doing such a thing, but according to WKMG this apparently happened....

"A Palm Coast man was arrested on suspicion of biting the lips off a kitten and strangling another cat. Angel Vega Roman, 28, was arrested Saturday and charged with cruelty to animals.

"According to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, Roman told an acquaintance that he accidentally choked his roommates' kitten a couple of weeks ago and bit the lips off another black and white kitten named Oreo.  Roman also tortured Oreo by burning its ear and whiskers with a lighter, a sheriff's report stated."

I know that I used a lot of disturbing examples in this article, but I wanted to make my point very strongly. James Holmes is not an isolated case.  America is literally being overrun by sickos and monsters. In the old days, our societal institutions were strong and they helped to tie us together. But today there is very, very little that ties us together and keeps us grounded.  Faith in almost every major institution in society is very low and our families are falling apart.

The percentage of adult Americans that are married right now is at an all-time low.  The percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation at all is at an all-time high. Our society is rotting from the inside out and many of our formerly great cities are degenerating into absolute hellholes.

Fixing America is not just a matter of fixing our economic system or our political system. Fixing America is going to take a whole lot more than that.

"Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9