I admit I'm not religious but I said this on another site:

I know it doesn't make anything any better...but the world is changing and not for the better. And it's definitely impacted the people for the worse. Just like I'm sure if the opposite happened, we'd see the opposite reaction. Things getting better and people would be friendly and would be happy. I think we're about to reach a boiling point for a lot of things. And I know that will be used against us to crack down on us even more than we already are to begin with.

I admit this sounds lame, might even sound like I'm making light of everything that's going on. I think we're approaching the end of one book. This book isn't fun to read, doesn't bring a smile to your face, etc. I don't think this is the end of the series. I think the next volume is about to open up and will make this book look good by comparison.

And then I went back and added this:

Oops, I meant to put my theory in there. I'm a believer in happiness or unhappiness spreading. You're happy in one area of your life and I think it spreads through the rest of your life. Same goes for unhappiness. I think people are just at the end of their rope, so stressed out and it's showing. What's being done to us is showing more and more with each passing day.