Once upon a time long ago, men of valor who credited God
Almighty as the source Natural Rights that no man has the authority to dissolve;
won independence from an oppressive government. Those men of valor set out to
find the best government for its citizens in which the pursuit of life, liberty
and happiness would be ordained to ‘We the People’ and protected by a good
government that operated on behalf and behest of the People under the
Judeo-Christian principles of the Almighty Creator.
Then the evil virus - Secular Humanism - infected the good
government diluting the morals of We the American People of the United States
of America.
Government gridlock ensued after Secular Humanist morality
has been slowly overpowering the People who still stand behind the Natural
Rights endued by our Creator as opposed to elite-men (and women) who stand
behind the dictates of a tyrannical government dictating to the People what is
right and wrong.
JRH 2/25/18
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We Knew Morality
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 2/24/18 12:20 AM
Nothing in U.S. history has ever happened that can
legitimately justify restricting Americans' natural and God-granted right to
self-defense, in any manner, and to arm themselves towards that purpose,
including mass shootings at our schools. To the contrary, these atrocious and
horrible events show precisely the reason America must reject the far-left
Democrats' and liberal Christians' insistence on "gun free" zones and
more gun control, since the real problem is found in a society that has
embraced every immoral act imaginable as normal, rejected Our Founders as
"racist" conquerors and rejected God in our schools.
One can make any argument one chooses, but guns are only the
means of these murderous rampages, not the cause. There is something deeper and
diseased in the soul of our society, and it transcends the gun debate.
As usual, the opportunists and gun control apologists wasted
not one second to exploit the tragedy of seventeen murdered students at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School, on February 14th, to pursue stronger gun control
measures for political gain; and for all their denials and lies, make no
mistake, the anti-gun coalition's goal is to rid the country of firearms and
erode and eventually eradicate the Second Amendment, come hell or high water,
through new laws, outright bans, and ultimately the confiscation of firearms in
America.
George Skelton, an LA Times journalist, opined shortly after the
Parkland, Florida shooting that "mass shootings will continue in this
country until we finally ban mass shooting weapons". This simplistic view
fails to note criminals will still acquire these weapons, and it ignores any
personal responsibility of the perpetrators.
Despite Chicago's strict gun laws and its attempts to outlaw
firearms in the city altogether, there were more than 4,000 shooting victims in
Chicago in 2016, according to NPR. Still to this
day, Chicago continues to suffer from a massive number of firearm related
crimes.
Most of these murderers are the product of atheistic,
secular humanist homes and public schools, which have generally not allowed
Judeo-Christian morality any real voice or advocate, and our overly permissive
society has enabled them, through moral relativism and Marxist cultural garbage, by blaming society for their
troubles. This indoctrination blinds the weak-minded to their own bad choices,
to the point that they see nothing wrong with taking a human life, for whatever
the reason in their twisted and evil hearts and minds.
Dr. Erwin Lutzer, pastor emeritus of the Moody Memorial
Church in Chicago wrote in 1986: "We have
not yet seen the final result of humanism in the United States. We are still
coasting on the values derived from our Judeo-Christian heritage."
Unfortunately, the immoral philosophy of socialists and their atheistic logic
has put the brakes on morality in our country, since 1962, and America is
witnessing the tragic results.
The anger and anguish of those who lost family and friends
at Parkland, Florida and through other gun violence is understandable, but
passion and demands, for the violation of decent law-abiding citizens' rights
and the erosion of individual liberty, are not a substitute for cogent thought
and critical analysis. Whether these psychopaths use guns, cars, planes,
knives, axes or hammers, murderers will always find something to use as a
weapon, as seen across America's history.
In 1927, a disgruntled teacher detonated over five-hundred
pounds of TNT at Bath Consolidated School, in Bath, Michigan,
killing 44 people. This wasn't the first bombing in America's history either;
there was the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago,
that killed eight, and there was also the 1920 Manhattan bombing that killed thirty people.
Recently, Reverend Paul Blair, a Baptist minister with Reclaiming America for Christ, made the following pointed observation:
"In the school parking lot, every fourth car was a pickup truck, most of
which had a rifle rack in the back window, a deer rifle hung on the rack and
the windows rolled down. We never heard of such a thing as a school shooting.
We knew right from wrong. We knew morality. Most of the students went to church
as did most of our teachers."
On February 22nd, Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president
of the National Rifle Association, spoke before the Conservative
Political Action Conference, stating: "Evil walks among
us, and God help us if we don't arm our schools and protect our kids ... To
stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun."
At the same American Conservative Union CPAC meeting, Dana
Loesch stated: "The government
can't keep you safe, and some people want us to give up our firearms and rely
solely upon the protection of the same government that's already failed us
numerous times ... ".
No matter one's position on firearms, if communities really
want to protect their children, they must place trained and fully capable,
proven, armed guards in our schools, not spectators and cowards such as Scot Peterson [PoliceOne.com
sums up plusses & minuses], a guard at Stoneman Douglas, who stood
outside the school for four minutes and did nothing. We must make certain any
potential mass murderer understands that schools are no longer "gun
free" zones, and hard righteous men and women stand prepared to end their
life with extreme prejudice.
I Timothy 5:8 says a man who "does not provide for his
relatives, and especially for members of his household" has "denied
the faith and is worse than an unbeliever". How much worse is the man who
would allow his family to be violated and murdered in his presence? Or stand
outside a school as a slaughter ensues?
Commanded by Jesus to love our neighbor as ourselves, if we
fail to do everything we possibly can to protect the innocent, are we truly
seeking to obey these red-letter words?
Aside from all the aforementioned, our right to stand
against any tyrannical government, foreign and domestic, presents the foremost
reason Americans' must retain our right to own high capacity semi-automatic
weapons. While Christians are not to engage in vengeance, the right to
self-defense is as ingrained in the history of God's people as it is in that of
humanity, from America's War for Independence to resistance and revolts against
Nazi Socialism and Communism. And, if not for good people using arms to defend
themselves against evil people and especially evil governments, no freedom
would exist on earth today.
Mass murders won't be stopped in America by banning guns,
but they might be slowed or halted by ensuring all children reach adulthood
with substantive hope, meaning and purpose in their lives, beyond immediate and
material satisfaction. We can no longer allow our children to be dragged under
by the ongoing nihilistic currents in our society, that hold nothing matters,
nothing is good, and nothing is evil, and all is centered on self.
The solution lies in advancing absolute truths in our
schools once again, and God's truth, too.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
All source links as well as
text embraced by brackets are by the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
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