Last week there was a shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. These kind of shootings are happening more commonly and there is much talk about mental illness, military PTSD, and gun control laws in regard to this incident. All that sort of talk is in regard to the world, I want to write in relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ and Biblical truth.
The issue is godlessness. Without God there is no reason to respect life. God is life, life without God is a falsehood. Secularism separates life from God, people are indoctrinated by secular views in school, books, television, movies, and culture. When people are alienated from God, they see no value in life. If life is a matter of personal opinion then when that opinion becomes murderous and a means to murder is available - there is no reason not to murder. The rules of a godless life are to do what one deems right without any guidance from God, the Bible, or godly ideas such as respect for law and order. People who promote secularism, atheism, and humanism are to blame for these shootings. To be fair, false Christians who don't mentor people or reach out to promote the Gospel outside of a church routine are also to blame.
A godless society that promotes sexual promiscuity, disrespect for the human body as the image of God, the disorder of women not being submitted to men as God created it, no respect for marriage, the corruption of homosexuality not being seen as corruption but an entitlement, media that glorifies violence, and greed empowering a society where people are nothing but laborers and consumers - all of this devalues life. The truth is the value of life is slowly chipped away by every dehumanizing act, machines and code have more value in US society than people do. Money has more value in the US than people do.
Don't bemoan the shootings, they are logical outgrowths of a society that doesn't value life. Not respecting God is the core of not valuing life. A godly society pays its workers fair wages, allows housing that is attainable to workers, takes care of its poor and vulnerable, doesn't invade other countries, doesn't spend resources building up a military to insane levels of destructiveness while letting the infrastructure of society decay. A godly society respects human life and the body so as to not allow pornography or prostitution, and values that have its young seeking human good rather than drugs and meaningless wealth. The Bible teaches fairness, just treatment of the poor and foreigners, a society that uplifts read Deuteronomy and Amos. Christians need to get involved in society and shout down the secular voices. Secularism is a cancer rotting out our society, leading to godless children that shoot up establishments full of people because they are "bored." The edict of secularism is "Do as thou will." By those rules the strongest aggressor wins. Children are not being raised by godly values that teach respect and love. It only follows that shootings are common as a result.
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