Battle Of Good vs Evil Comes To Connecticut

December 15, 2012 6 Comments

It’s been a day since the horrific elementary school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut which left 27 dead including 20 children. We still don’t know the victims names, especially the children. From the accounts given of the murder scene, it’s quite grisly and because children tend not to carry identification their parents will likely have to identify the bodies. Since the school is the site of a murder investigation, forensic units haven’t yet moved bodies. As such it’s going to take some time before names officially trickle out. No doubt, the parents of the deceased already know. They now get to look forward to the horrific task of identifying the body of their son or daughter.

Watching coverage of this event last night one would have seen the word evil tossed about. It isn’t often that the media uses the term evil, though it absolutely fits yesterday’s crime. This is perhaps the problem though, the media and society reserves the term evil for only the most horrifying events. Good and evil don’t exist in the Newtown schools, unless a gunman comes in and knocks off 20 kids. As society has further separated itself from our Godly, Christian past, we’ve lost a sense of what good and evil truly are. When something like a mass shooting happens, we act shocked and we try to spin in our minds how this could happen. In a nation that embraces evil and rejects good why should anyone be surprised when a particularly evil man on the fringe of society takes evil to one of its logical conclusions?

It was fascinating watching President Obama’s reaction to the shooting. As he cried crocodile tears for the kids who were murdered, as he waxed poetic about how they had their whole future ahead of them one couldn’t help but think of the 1 million babies aborted every year. President Obama supports their abortion even though in the womb those children have their whole future ahead of them. Obama’s statement was completely disingenuous in that light. But it’s a typical reaction of someone who has embraced evil over good. We’re horrified at what happened in Newtown, CT but we as a nation refuse to put what happened in the proper context. Like Obama, the nation will bury its collective head in the sand with regard to good and evil.

We are living in a post-Christian America, a nation where morality is relative and evil is only reflected in the most horrifying of events. We aren’t yet at the level of the people in the French Revolution, Third Reich or name your Communist nation. We still have a significant number of people who have not fully rejected the Christian faith or Christian morality. As such God has not completely removed his hand of protection. But we aren’t far from that point. As we continue to remove God from culture, we can expect evil to flourish. As we continue to cheapen life, we can expect that criminals will disregard life even more. Just look at “handgun free” Chicago where murders are up 48% just this year. They’re pushing 500 just in Chicago. We can look at countless cities, most of which are the most anti-Christian or agnostic in the country. All of them have sickeningly high murder rates.

We removed God from the government school classroom 50 years ago. Arguably he was never really there, government schools were the creation and play thing of the progressive movement. Yesterday we saw the fruits of God’s removal from schools and from society. It was most certainly seen in the outrageous murder scene inside that school. But it was also seen by the reaction of the media and millions in our country. There is a disconnect between our nation and morality, there is a fundamental lack of understanding of good and evil. If our nation continues down this road, evil like what we saw will only increase and our understanding will only become more muddled. We can only hope and pray that God will use this act of evil in Connecticut to call many unto Jesus Christ. Only through Christ can we truly understand what took place and how our nation can avoid these events in the future.

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Aurora Shooting Shows How We’ve Lost Touch With Reality

July 21, 2012 14 Comments

It’s been a day since the horrific attack at a movie theater in Colorado. According to the police 12 are dead while 58 others are injured. The killer, James Holmes, seems to have been planning this attack for several weeks if not months. He purchased guns, magazines and ammunition over the past few weeks and months. He booby trapped his home and dyed his hair red. He apparently suggested on some creepy porn web site that he would be in prison soon. In short, Holmes was playing the Joker, one of the bad guys in the Batman series.

It’s very easy to dismiss Holmes as nuts. We Americans love to blame evil on mental problems or political motivations. For over a decade we have refused to call Islam evil, despite hundreds of suicide bombers attacking our troops and allies in the Middle East. Even after the 9-11 attacks, we were only willing to call the hijackers evil rather than the root of their evil: Islam. Likewise whenever there is a mass shooting the media first attacks guns as though they’re somehow responsible for evil and then they start talking about mental disorders. By blaming the Holmes attack on a mental disorder, we’re simply dismissing the fact he is evil. In fact, the media turns Holmes into a victim. After all, who doesn’t feel sorry for people with a mental disorder?

But the fact is that there is evil in the world. There are wicked people who want to do harm to others. Some may be demon possessed, in other cases common grace has been withheld and man is seen at his ultimate worst. The truth is every last one of us is capable of doing exactly what James Holmes did yesterday. We are all totally depraved and but for the grace of God we are restrained from doing such things. But there is evil in the world, great evil such as what Holmes did. When we immediate jump to psychological explanations, we’re dismissing the role of evil and burying our heads in the sand at the same time.

On another note  I am absolutely shocked by the number of children present in the theater for a midnight showing of a nearly three hour PG-13 movie. A six year old was shot and killed, what was she doing there? A 3 month old was grazed by a bullet. What kind of parent takes a 3 month old to a movie, much less a midnight showing? There are reports of numerous 12-14 year olds at this movie. Again, what are such young children doing at a midnight film? We happen to know about these kids because a tragedy occurred but you have to figure this theater in Colorado was relatively representative of other theaters across the country. How many hundreds of six year olds were at a midnight showing of Batman on Thursday? How many babies were taken? How many 12-14 year old children were at such a showing? It must be an enormous number.

We have lost touch with reality when we’re taking children to midnight showings of any movie, much less a PG-13 film that is nearly three hours long. This ties in with our refusal to call evil what it is. As a society we seem to have lost touch with reality. We make excuses for evil or dismiss it with psychological evaluations. Meanwhile parents are taking their kids to the movies at the most absurd time of day. This isn’t a problem for government to solve, it’s a problem that society is going to have to figure out on its own. By the grace of God we will, soon.

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Is The President’s Life In Danger?

April 18, 2012 Leave a comment

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is well known for making inflammatory statements against Jews, white people and pretty much anyone he doesn’t like. On his recent college tour, Farrakhan makes some statements that one could construe is a threat against the President. If this is the case, surely the Secret Service would want to look into this once they’ve paid their Columbian prostitutes. Yet you know they won’t do anything. For whatever reason Farrakhan is off limits to investigation, much less prosecution.

It’s important to put Farrakhan’s statement into context, particularly historical context. In 2008 Farrakhan supported Obama for President, going so far as to call him the black Messiah. Keep in mind, Farrakhan’s version of Islam isn’t much different than Jeremiah Wright’s version of Christianity, he views the world as a giant racial battle. Clearly Farrakhan believed Obama was going to usher in a new era of race relations with blacks in position to destroy whites. He believed the next stage was set with Obama, which is why he called him the black Messiah.

But things haven’t gone as Farrakhan would have liked. The Nation of Islam was very much opposed to Obama’s actions in Libya. For whatever reason the Nation of Islam viewed Gaddafi as an ally. This led Farrakhan to call Obama the “son of the devil” and a “frontman for criminals.” Obama did not behave in what Farrakhan imagines was in the best interest of black people in taking out Gaddafi. There were other minor incidents as well, but Libya is no doubt the biggest problem Farrakhan has with Obama.

Fast forward to the other day when Farrakhan said the following to a group of college kids at LeMoyne-Owens College:

You want to be leaders, right? You sure, you sure? You better check yourself, because leadership is nothing to play with, because people tomorrow,  maybe in a few days, are going to kill their leaders who have been selling them out. That‘s why we’re in the shape we’re in right now because we had corrupt people or people who started out good and got corrupted.

In Farrakhan’s world Obama started out good, he’s the black Messiah. Then he became corrupted and is a frontman for criminals and the son of the devil. Couple this with Farrakhan’s threat that in a matter of days leaders who sold out will be killed and one wonders why no one in the media is covering this and why there isn’t a Secret Service investigation. Obama is a sell out to the black cause according to Farrakhan, he’s a corrupted leader who started out good. Is it so outlandish as to conclude that Obama is a target for assassination?

Let’s look at Farrakhan’s history a little bit. He has assassinated people before. He so much as admits the Nation of Islam had Malcolm X killed. Watch the video, Farrakhan doesn’t “care about no white people’s law.” He claims they dealt with Malcolm “as a nation” and if they killed him “what the hell business is it of yours?” Take two things away from the video. Apparently murder is a “white people” law that blacks don’t have to follow. That generally fits in well with Islam, but we know the overwhelming majority of blacks don’t agree. Second, take away the brazenness of Farrakhan’s speech. He and the Nation of Islam had Malcolm X assassinated. When Farrakhan makes veiled threats of murder against corrupted sell outs and the President who was once considered the Messiah is now considered a corrupted sell out, his statements should be taken very seriously.

God forbid anything happen to President Obama. It would be a national tragedy if he should be assassinated or harmed in any way. As Christians we must pray for our leaders, no matter how much we disagree, no matter how evil they may be. We must pray that God would protect them and save their souls. Louis Farrakhan seems to be threatening the President. Doesn’t that at least deserve an investigation if not media coverage?

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