Virgil Walker, July 22, 2025
We Forgot How to Blush
It happened gradually.
One headline at a time. One compromise at a time. One drag queen story hour at a time.
Now we scroll past stories that would’ve made us tremble a generation ago: child drag shows, gender surgeries on minors, teachers grooming students, pornography in school libraries.
Our grandparents would’ve wept. We just keep scrolling.
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a coffee shop near my home. A group of high school students—maybe 16 or 17—were laughing, huddled around a phone. Curious, I leaned slightly to glimpse the screen. What I saw made my stomach turn: a video clip of a so-called “family-friendly” drag show. Gyrating. Glitter. Grown men dressed as caricatures of women, performing for children. And no one blinked.
The barista smiled and handed over my coffee like nothing had happened. I sat down, stunned—not just by what I saw, but by how normal it had become.
This is no accident. It’s judgment.
“Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush.” (Jeremiah 6:15)
We’ve reached the point Jeremiah warned about: the death of shame. The loss of conscience. A society with no moral reflex left.
When You Feel Nothing, That’s the Real Crisis
Romans 1 doesn’t describe a people sliding toward sin. It describes a people being handed over to it.
“Therefore God gave them up…” (Romans 1:24)
The phrase appears three times:
God gave them up (Romans 1:24).
God gave them up (Romans 1:26).
God gave them up (Romans 1:28).
This isn’t passive. It’s divine abandonment.
When a culture suppresses truth long enough, God doesn’t just send warnings—He withdraws restraint. And what fills the vacuum is terrifying:
Lust presented as love
Pride paraded as courage
Confusion elevated as identity
I remember talking with an older pastor years ago. He told me, “When God judges a nation, it’s not just what He does. It’s what He no longer does. He stops holding back the madness.” That sentence echoes in my mind every time I see another story about children being encouraged to change their gender or schools allowing boys in girls’ locker rooms.
We used to mourn. Now we celebrate. And that shift—from sorrow to celebration—is a symptom of judgment, not progress.
The Conscience Isn’t Gone—It’s Calloused
The human conscience is like a nerve. When it’s healthy, it stings when touched by sin. But when seared or overexposed, it becomes numb.
“They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.” (Ephesians 4:19)
This is the death of conscience: not that it disappears, but that it stops working.
It’s why we’re not shocked anymore.
It’s why nothing feels extreme.
It’s why people watch horror without horror.
And Satan loves it. Desensitization is one of his most effective tools. It doesn’t require you to rebel. It just needs you to get used to the rebellion.
A friend recently confessed to me that he no longer flinches at scenes in TV shows that once would have made him turn it off. “It just feels like everything’s saturated in filth now,” he said. “And I’ve gotten used to it.”
That’s the danger—not just exposure to evil, but acceptance of it.
What Got Us Here
Soft Preaching – Too many pulpits traded fire for fluff. Truth was sidelined for ten tips on self-care.
Screen Addiction – A generation raised on violence, lust, and mockery has no reference point for holiness.
Normalization Campaigns – Hollywood has spent decades making sin look fun, brave, and beautiful.
Moral Cowardice – Christians kept quiet for the sake of being liked. Now the culture doesn’t know what we believe.
A friend once told me about a Sunday service he attended where the pastor preached a 35-minute message on “loving yourself well” without ever opening the Bible. That church now hosts pride events.
The Remedy Is Revival, Not Rebranding
We won’t feel again until we repent. And repentance won’t come through branding consultants or PR campaigns.
It will come when the Word of God pierces hearts again.
When pastors preach hell and mean it.
When fathers weep over sin in their homes.
When Christians fast and pray for mercy.
There’s no shortcut to a softened conscience. It must be broken by the weight of truth.
What Christians Must Do Now
Reignite Your Conscience – Saturate your soul in Scripture. Pray for soft eyes and a tender heart.
Refuse to Numb Out – Limit what you consume. Turn off the filth. Don’t laugh at what grieves God.
Speak Without Fear – The truth may sting, but it can still awaken the sleeping.
Prepare for Pushback – A tender conscience will be mocked in a numb world. Be ready.
Conclusion: Wake Up While There’s Time
The worst judgment isn’t fire from heaven.
It’s when God lets you go.
America has been handed over. The numbness we feel isn’t safety—it’s a symptom. And unless there is repentance, it ends in ruin.
But the Gospel still saves.
The Word still convicts.
And the Spirit still awakens.
So cry out. Confess. Preach. And feel again.
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4)
https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/the-death-of-conscience-why-nothing
Good article, Linda.
May it be suggested/asserted that the primary thing that “got us here” is the planned, deliberate, strategized contamination of Christianity by forces/influences outside of the Body of Jesus Christ as has been clearly delineated and predicted by Luciferian New Age/occult/Theosophical leaders for a very long time, by way if intentional infiltration of Bible colleges. seminaries, pulpits, Christian publishers, parachurch organizations, missionary societies, including inventors of horrific, polluted Bible “translations,” as well as those innumerable people who call themselves Christians but are simply culture-conforming dupes worshipping at the altar of Hollywood and corrupt, irredeemable politics. (Sorry, as much as I like some of the things President Trump stands for and is accomplishing, it becomes obvious that God ‘set him up’ – Daniel 2:21 – to pave the way for the fulfillment of last days prophecy.) This appears to be his primary role.
The prophetic end times 2 Thessalonians 2:3 birth pain apostacy has already been sweeping the world away for decades and accelerating. There will be no revival; at least the Bible shows no indication of such a phenomenon whatsoever, but only worsening disintegration as per Genesis 11:6.
Instructive for us is 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 (in context) which describes the scenario that after God has in his perspective exhausted means to turn people around there will be severe judgment with “no remedy.”
No problem. We can experience “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17) in the midst of chaos “waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). This is what God does for us!
The article is correct.
It’s been said that normal is now the ‘new normal’. That’s a lie because beyond normal there’s only abnormal.
Morality is what’s normal. Morality has it’s boundaries and limitations ( here I’m reminded of Dirty Harry Callahan saying “A man’s got to know his limitations” when he subdues the bad guys). Going beyond what’s normal and moral is abnormal, immoral, and evil.
Apparently, God no longer blesses with His Providence those who choose to live immorally. They are no longer His sheep so he abandons them to their own wiles to be devoured by the wolves of this world.
On a side note, I think I recall long ago, back in the ’70’s, seeing a movie called “Blazing Saddles” which had a group of LGBT’s singing a number about ‘anything goes’. They were the ones expressing that idea, not me. They’re not saying it anymore, they’re doing their ‘anything goes’ with their ‘new normal’ which, again, is still immoral.
P.S. That’s why we strive for self-control: to stay within those boundaries and limitations, those ‘thou shalt nots’.