Ugly ideologies that depletes the heart and mind of guilt, fear, self respect, judgment and eternal consequences.
When they're taught and convinced that there are NO inherent consequences either while they live nor after they die, ... what is there to lose??
If the most they can fear is 3 hot meals a day, shelter, a bed, at other people's expense, and sharing a prison life with people just like them is all they'll have to endure... what's to stop anyone from committing evil acts w/in a community that already doesn't know or care whether they exist??
There is something to our outlaw-renegade, violent and narcissistic culture mixed w/ the new secularist ideology that teaches that there is no higher accountability and creates the type of things that plague our nation in these mass shooting - murder/suicides.
While we see the degrading of our historical Christian principles, we also see the increase of a higher depravity.
This is what is happening in our culture. The separation of God from our consciousness early on in our lives creates this Frankenstein monster within our society.
It's NOT the increase of Guns in our homes but the increase of guns in our hearts that is the problem. If we keep our guns where they belong - stored away safely, but get them out of our music, movies and entertainment, we're surely not to create that angry, lustful and selfish ogre we're seeing more and more these days.
But it starts very early on w/in the conscience of every individual.
Many will say, "Why do you have to feed people religion in order to teach and foster responsibility and a moral conscience"??...
Well, as we know most people won't turn into that ogre and will actually learn respect for humanity, their neighbors, etc.
because it's common sense and the moral understanding floats around separate from its original source of origin to people's benefit when practiced.
But the increase of these terrible cases only demonstrates that teaching and knowing "why" these principles are needed is of utmost importance.
And just singing kumbaya and playing John Lennon songs won't do it.
An army of Mother Theresas and Ghandis won't either!
Bottom line, people need to know and truly believe in what they're being taught and why. There has to be a foundation to any belief system, and if you can plug a hole into it, it can all come tumbling down and create a void.
People need the Truth.
But today, instead of using a Biblical template for morality, justice, education, responsibility and service we're using a template that isn't grounded on anything other than man's lustful impulses of greed, anger, laziness, fornication, self gratification and pride, etc.
If there isn't something to harness those already ugly impulses that exist in every human being, then they're free to grow and increase to the peril of any community.
So how can we question the occurrences of these things happening within our culture??
Naturally, where a culture rejects those former principles, they become even more aggressive in the pull away from it, and its results all the more extreme.
Yet we see more and more that where Godly principles have been attacked the most is within our schools and within our families. Keeping our children from learning God's moral laws as absolute, pushing secularism further into philosophy in the universities, and even accountability within our courthouses and government.
It's a recipe for disaster.
Thus, look at us now.
To top it off, depravity then hides the smoking gun behind its back, and denies the true cause of the problem. It tries to deny the obvious by relying on flawed statistics that enters "lies in, and gets more lies coming out". Just like Romans Chapt. 1 speaks about the "suppressing of Truth", denial sets in.
As always, certain extreme political elements of the media want to divert the attention of the real problem we're having in our country by desperately grabbing at straws, and point the blame somewhere else. The recent mass shooting at a SC abortuary, was blamed on a man who they're trying to call a "Christian terrorist". It's embarrassing for them because it demonstrates how desperate they are at trying to take the attention away from the mass murders that take place every within those abortuaries by blaming the event on a religious ideology that almost doesn't exist anymore. A religious ideology that #1, hasn't been seen since perhaps the Crusades of the Catholic faith, and #2, can never be (by definition nor actions) "Christian".
Christianity is defined by a standard set apart by Jesus Christ Himself, and if you don't meet His standard (clearly seen in the Bible), it's utter foolishness to define it as Christian.
In fact, the term, "Christian terrorism" is an oxy moron unless of coarse, you're referring to the "terrorizing the EVIL out of someone to pure love and forgiveness"....
He he he.... But that's definitely not what the God haters are referring to. :)
The man in that recent case, was known to have a huge criminal record, was not registered as a conservative/ Republican, and had no affiliation to the Pro-Life cause.
But of coarse, God haters waste themselves in their efforts to commit the sin of baring false witness on God's people, and for that - they'll have their reward.
How further down hill can we go before we recognize, there's no going back up??
We pray for our country and that God raise REAL leaders with personal conviction to get us going in the right direction before it's ultimately, too late.
"But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
- Proverbs 8:36
