It was the scale of apathy, acceptance of corruption, and even the participation in its moral degradation by my fellow citizens that did surprise me. I do not even recognize my countrymen anymore, I do not know these people anymore. I am a foreigner in their hostile land. This is what a nation without God feels like. Empty, rootless, corrupt, unbearable, dangerous, and demonic.
Look at them, still masking, still boosting, still corrupting children with their pedophilia and pornography. Still addicted to television, professional sports, still glued to their facebooks and tiktoks, still wearing their rainbow flags, murdering and sodomizing one another, still putting profit over people, worshiping their golden calves and false idols and rejecting God at every possible opportunity and now openly worshiping Satan in our schools, our government buildings, and on display in the places we shop daily.
God help us all.
You mentioned the sacking of Rome...indeed...horror for sure, BUT, you should read what Flavius Josephus wrote about the sacking of Jerusalem by the Romans! Jesus said this would be the event/time of the greatest tribulation the world has ever seen or ever would see again. It was astoundingly horrific what God unleashed against the Israelites for their rejection of Messiah! It made any other war, natural disaster or genocide (past, present or future) pale by comparison! When God ended the original covenant relationship with Israel for their disobedience and satan worship, He did it in a most dramatic and permanent way. Seems that very few Christians (very few!) are taught about this event in history because of what it means.