A National Tragedy April 16, 2007
Posted by Paul Edwards in Culture, Death, Theology, Virginia Tech.trackback
31 Murdered, 1 dead (the shooter) at Virginia Tech.
ABC News already asking if shooting is grounds for gun control.
If you have children, especially college-age and away from home, call them and hold them closer and encourage them to face the reality of death and not to think happy thoughts. Maybe this timely essay from Christianity Today will help you focus your thoughts aright.
It is just so shocking the way the gunman killed so many. I just dont understand how someone could have the mindset to do such violence.Im just hoping and praying to see something good come out of this. Maybe alot will come to Christ.
This satirical “Creed” is true today as it was when it was written by Steve Turner.
We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone,
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.
We believe in sex before, during, and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy is OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.
We believe that everything is getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.
We believe there’s something in
horoscopes, UFO’s and bent spoons;
Jesus was a good man
just like Buddha, Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher
although we think His good morals were bad.
We believe that all religions are basically the same–
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of
creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.
We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
then it’s compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan.
We believe in Masters and Johnson.
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.
We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors
and the Russians would be sure to follow.
We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.
We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth that there is no absolute truth.
We believe in the rejection of creeds,
and the flowering of individual thought.
“Chance” a post-script
If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky,
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.
This last part (the post-script) was what I was thinking when “it” happened!
~God bless us all~
That is my hope and prayer, too, Kay. This was very devestating — I hope it was a wake up call, at least for somebody, to the rising godlessness of our society.
You made a good point today, Paul, about people’s priorities with regard to the response to this tragedy and vs. last week’s big news. I hope it’s not because no one cares about this. Perhaps it’s because there’s no debate, pretty much everyone agrees this was heinous and evil.
May God be with the families of the victims, and reveal Himself to them in some way through all this.
Angie - Farmington Hills
“THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND DESPERATELY WICKED: WHO CAN KNOW IT? Jeremiah 17:9
The answer; God. Herein is sovereignty, foreknowledge, and freewill all in one, who can known it? The answer; Not me. “Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Psalm 131:1 The five pointers might say, this was God’s sovereignty, while Arminianism might say, if he was saved, he fell from it, and Biblicists will say, I’m not capable of answering that. What ever our position, this is where faith in Gods purpose meets the road. I do know this; “That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief” There but by the grace of God go I, and my family, and my loved ones. My heart and my prayers extend to these families. This is one “only” the Lord can heal.