Losing a child is the worst possible thing that can happen. Losing 20, as occurred today in Newtown, Connecticut is a monstrous, indescribable tragedy. My heart bleeds for those devastated families. Their Christmases, their lives, will never be the same.
Some have used this tragedy as an opportunity to vilify our "gun culture" and predictably, right up to the President, have said we need "meaningful action", by which of course he means more gun control. But guns are not the problem here.
Throughout the last century, up until the gun control act of 1968, there were few restrictions on gun ownership, save the heavy regulation of automatic weapons. A kid could order a rifle through the mail. There were no Columbines, no Virginia Techs', no Auroras, no Newtowns. There were many people with mental illnesses, ADD, Asperger's, autism and other problems, although perhaps they went by different names. But these kinds of things just did not happen.
What changed? What changed is that our society became unhinged from its bedrock belief in God. In earlier times, churches were filled on Sundays and people generally conformed to a code of decency and behavior accepted throughout society. We swore less, raged less, dressed more modestly, frowned upon braggarts and liars, respected authority and approached life with a modesty and humility borne both of hard experience and religious training.
Of course there were exceptions, but for all our collective failings as human beings, we took our religions and our religious beliefs seriously. Organized religion, especially Christianity, demands a level of decency, modesty and humility that is largely missing in today's distracted, self-absorbed, ego-driven, anything-goes culture. And we are reaping the rewards.
Back in the 1920s, a group of German Communists started the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. It would become known as simply the Frankfurt School. Its goal was to implement communism in the West quietly by gradually subverting popular culture -- a movement known as Cultural Marxism.
Early on, these people recognized that Christianity was the single greatest impediment to the advancement of communism in the West and they set out to destroy it by every means possible. Soviet propagandist and organizer Willi Munzenberg articulated the school's goals:
We will make the West so corrupt it stinks... [We will] organise the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilisation stink [sic]. Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Today their goal has been largely accomplished. We have been lured away from the moral anchors of our Judeo/Christian heritage, and the result is visible all around us: broken homes, endemic divorce, unwed mothers, convenience abortions, crime, drug and alcohol abuse, increasingly toxic sexual licentiousness - which brought us AIDS, among other things - and an increasingly ignorant class of people, so self-absorbed and unaware, they can't even name our Capital.
Our culture is indeed becoming so corrupt it stinks, and it is not surprising that evil now finds such an easy home here. Gun control will not cure this. Stricter laws will not cure this. Stricter enforcement may not even cure this. The only cure is a healthy society, a humble society; a society whose strong Christian heritage used to make it uncool to feed off others, uncool to boast, uncool to have a self-serving attitude; uncool to ignore the Golden Rule.
This is nothing new. The pattern has been repeated since the days of antiquity. When a society finds and abides in God, health, peace and affluence follow; when it forgets God, disaster is not far behind. We as a nation have forgotten God.
Do you want to do something in response to this tragedy? Get down on your knees and pray. Ask God to save this country from such insanity. Ask God to help us restore the decency we once knew.
God bless those innocent little children who have gone; God bless those parents living in a sea of grief that knows no bounds. God bless and God save the United States of America.
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Comment by Judy Lyford on December 16, 2012 at 8:12pm Every day I cry for my daughter (she's 45 years old). Nothing can be done for her because she hasn't been caught breaking the law--I say hasn't been caught because she's a pathological liar and a petty thief. Was she raised without morals? No. Her sisters are normal, hard working, proud, honest and loving. What causes this? My daughter has been drinking from her teen years. She will take any prescription medication she can get ahold of, by theft or coersion. Pray for our country and the misguided citizens who turn their backs on their hurting neighbors.
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Comment by John W Evans IV on December 16, 2012 at 9:26am I agree - a thoughtful post to be sure..
Maybe it wouldn't hurt to train more people (including teachers) in the safe use of firearms. Then support "concealed carry". These gun free zones are too tempting to those misguided crazies who prey on the defenseless. The slaughter of babies is as evil as anything I can imagine.
Comment by Robert J Knapp on December 16, 2012 at 9:25am One of the best articles I have read on this subject - I had just voiced the same argument a couple days ago, but not so eloquently as presented here. And, of course, I was immediately attacked by the liberals.
Comment by Cynthia Catsman on December 16, 2012 at 7:31am Some of these killings pre-date Obama, but what's noticable is the vacant, strange look in the eyes of the survivor shooters. Both Holmes and Loughner have the same expression. Could it be something more than "crazies?" What is DARDA all about?
Comment by Terri Donohue on December 16, 2012 at 7:20am I agree! I would like to add that we have become a society where NO ONE IS HOME to raise our kids. We are now in families, if there are two adult parents at all, that have those two parents working and either kids come home to latch hooks or they are being cared for by others. I can see reasons why this happened but I think that it could be up on the top 10 reasons that our kids feel they've been left out in on the north 40 somewhere to fend for themselves, act out or seek out others to 'family' up with. Our kids have way too many things and way too little parenting. Sending them to NEA schools is sending them to indoctrination facilities when they are ripe for deception. We tired, worn out but Godly parents and Grandparents need to figure out a way to simple down and try to bring what's important back into our children's lives. Starting with dinner around the table would be a start in deprogramming our kids.
Comment by Carol DiRenzo on December 16, 2012 at 6:47am I agree with this post 100%. It is a lack of God in peoples lives that leaves people vulnerable to the type of insane behaviors exhibited in Newtown, Aurora, Columbine, Virginia Tech and others. It is not the guns or whatever the weapon of choice is. It is the people wielding the weapon and their lack of knowing or caring what is right or wrong or even their own fate. The values in our country are disappearing before our eyes and our government is not only letting it happen, they are promoting it. Instead of stricter gun laws we need to bring God back into our homes, schools and public places where He belongs.
Comment by Shamil on December 16, 2012 at 6:44am Amen, Jimmy H. Eternity is a very long time to be wrong. I choose non-smoking. Chas, Gail, Judy, et al: Can't wait to meet you there. Hopefully in the distant future, but no matter what happens on this earth, I love having this assurance. Have a very Merry and blessed Christmas. Happy birthday to our Savior and King.
Job 19:25 I know that my Savior[a] lives,
and at the end
he will stand on this earth.
26 My flesh may be destroyed,
yet from this body
I will see God.[b]
27 Yes, I will see him for myself,
and I long for that moment.
As a Christian, I like my chances better than the non-believer for if I'm wrong, I have lost nothing but should they be wrong, they have lost it ALL!
Comment by Chas Jones on December 16, 2012 at 3:07am Boyd is so confused and misinformed.
Our "Founding Father's" openly and publicly revered God's Law as the contents of the "Holy Bible," and decried any civil [man made] law standing in opposition to God's Laws and Precepts. Our constitutions [State and federal] were drawn from and based upon God's WORD ... one simply cannot "follow the constitution" as Boyd says he wants ... while standing in violation to God's WORD and Precepts.
It IS our departure from God and His WORD and Precepts that brings us to our current crisis and decay. The "Founders," almost universally, declared the Bible and the Christian teachings therein to be the only TRUE model for a happy and free people or nation. They did NOT favor one denomination nor "church organization," over any other but they almost universally favored Christ and His Teachings as the "Law of Nature and Nature's God."
Morals and ethics based upon nothing more than human reason ... FAIL utterly and miserably to guide human affairs. God alone is able to do that.
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