Serial killers are the subjects of many documentaries, books, speculation, study, etc., but still no one knows why they do what they do. Browsing late night TV last night, I came across Confessions of a Serial Killer on MSNBC profiling Jeffrey Dahmer and his family circa 1994. I've always been fascinated by the serial killer phenomenon because of their random nature. No one has any answers. Not even the experts. Sure, they can point to certain similarities, age groups, race, but none of it is exact.
Yet, watching the Dahmer interview, I finally heard something that made sense. Dahmer, looking very calm and very poised told Stone Phillips that he is responsible for all his crimes and his parents are not. And when asked what made him feel this responsibility he replied,(I'm paraphrasing) "I bought into the lie that evolution was the truth. That we came from slime and when it's over it's over. There's nothing else. And that cheapens life. Then I started reading creation science books and realized that there is no scientific proof for evolution and that it is a lie. I came to realize that we are not here by accident and we are accountable to the Lord."
Now, I may have gotten one or two words out of order, but that was the gist of it. But his assessment of the cheapening of life perpetrated by the evolution- pushers struck me as the piece missing in this puzzle. How many times have I written about the cheapening of life in the form of abortions where a child is actually pulled out of the womb and stabbed to death by a monster who calls himself a doctor, or the pulling of a feeding tube from a woman whose family is begging for mercy, the infants thrown into trash cans and left to die among the rubbish, and creating embryonic life to disect it and throw it away. We have been bombarded with experts and respected members of our culture who are determined to lower the value of human life! But those are the obvious examples. Dahmer's thoughts shone a light on the insidious life-haters hiding in the hallways of your child's school.
It always struck me weird that the "theory" of evolution is treated as a law in public school. So much so that no other "theory" is allowed to be discussed unless it is with a tone of ridicule. And here is the result. A boy, brought up to believe that life is worthless, that we're all just animals trying to survive for the grand prize of turning back into the dust from which we came. With this as a basis for his belief about what human beings are, he did not see why he should restrain his desires to end that life. For what? For who? We're all just mammals anyway. If there is no judgment, no God in heaven, no reward, no hope, then why the hell do we do any of the crap we do? Why do we obey the law? Why don't we steal from our neighbor? The threat of jail isn't enough. Jail has cable and, as Richard Speck showed us, lots of drugs and sex!
This idea could go a lot of different places. But let me just say that we should all be concerned with the aggressive God-killing going on in the schools that is affecting young people's lives. There is a chance that another boy like Jeffrey Dahmer is paying attention to his teachers' distorted view of human existence who is deciding on a path that will devastate everyone around him. If there is no eternal damnation or eternal salvation, then what is the argument you will use to keep your child on a righteous path? Why is murder wrong if there is no God. Why can't you murder your classmates in cold blood because they were mean to you? Because some judge says so? Or the Constitution? Without God, the Constitution is just a piece of paper with no authority. By whose authority are our rights given? Men? What is the value of human life? These are all questions that should be asked and would be far more educational than how to put condoms on bananas.
Yet, watching the Dahmer interview, I finally heard something that made sense. Dahmer, looking very calm and very poised told Stone Phillips that he is responsible for all his crimes and his parents are not. And when asked what made him feel this responsibility he replied,(I'm paraphrasing) "I bought into the lie that evolution was the truth. That we came from slime and when it's over it's over. There's nothing else. And that cheapens life. Then I started reading creation science books and realized that there is no scientific proof for evolution and that it is a lie. I came to realize that we are not here by accident and we are accountable to the Lord."
Now, I may have gotten one or two words out of order, but that was the gist of it. But his assessment of the cheapening of life perpetrated by the evolution- pushers struck me as the piece missing in this puzzle. How many times have I written about the cheapening of life in the form of abortions where a child is actually pulled out of the womb and stabbed to death by a monster who calls himself a doctor, or the pulling of a feeding tube from a woman whose family is begging for mercy, the infants thrown into trash cans and left to die among the rubbish, and creating embryonic life to disect it and throw it away. We have been bombarded with experts and respected members of our culture who are determined to lower the value of human life! But those are the obvious examples. Dahmer's thoughts shone a light on the insidious life-haters hiding in the hallways of your child's school.
It always struck me weird that the "theory" of evolution is treated as a law in public school. So much so that no other "theory" is allowed to be discussed unless it is with a tone of ridicule. And here is the result. A boy, brought up to believe that life is worthless, that we're all just animals trying to survive for the grand prize of turning back into the dust from which we came. With this as a basis for his belief about what human beings are, he did not see why he should restrain his desires to end that life. For what? For who? We're all just mammals anyway. If there is no judgment, no God in heaven, no reward, no hope, then why the hell do we do any of the crap we do? Why do we obey the law? Why don't we steal from our neighbor? The threat of jail isn't enough. Jail has cable and, as Richard Speck showed us, lots of drugs and sex!
This idea could go a lot of different places. But let me just say that we should all be concerned with the aggressive God-killing going on in the schools that is affecting young people's lives. There is a chance that another boy like Jeffrey Dahmer is paying attention to his teachers' distorted view of human existence who is deciding on a path that will devastate everyone around him. If there is no eternal damnation or eternal salvation, then what is the argument you will use to keep your child on a righteous path? Why is murder wrong if there is no God. Why can't you murder your classmates in cold blood because they were mean to you? Because some judge says so? Or the Constitution? Without God, the Constitution is just a piece of paper with no authority. By whose authority are our rights given? Men? What is the value of human life? These are all questions that should be asked and would be far more educational than how to put condoms on bananas.
The left is on a constant campaign to make us feel and act like animals with no souls. It is my belief that these values (or lack thereof) have led to creating people with no remorse capable of unspeakable horrors.
Man was made for higher existence and for greater purpose than to just go through life as a slab of meat who eats, drinks, poops and screws like a dog. There is something more. Humankind can achieve marvelous things. Why do we keep insisting that it's all for nothing? Why can't we see the divine in ourselves, and not in a weirdo crystal-stroking way, but the actual reflection of God, the reflection of the Father in ourselves? We were created in His image. And like you may have your mother's nose or your father's feet, you also have your Father's qualities! And I see that. I see it in great acheivements like skyscrapers and in acts of incredible kindness, I see it when tragedy strikes and people rise to their best selves and commit acts of heroism, or in unconditional patience and love, and the ultimate sacrifice of a person who lays down their life for another.
But there is also evidence of evil all around us, as we have daily proof. And yet, there are so many who want to deny its existence. But evil is like a lion roaming the earth, seeking whom it may destroy. Evil is a living thing and it wants your children. It lives in chat rooms and encourages your children to join suicide clubs or teaches them how to build a bomb to slaughter their classmates. It speaks in movies encouraging cultural rot, self-absorption, selfishness and depravity. What are we doing to stop it? What can fight darkness like that?
Some say that religion is an opiate for the masses, to control the populous, to keep us in line. Maybe. But if the opposite is true, and an absence of religion means chaos and anarchy, or cooking your neighbor for dinner....I'll take religion.
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This is the crux of it all: "The left is on a constant campaign to make us feel and act like animals with no souls. It is my belief that these values (or lack thereof) have led to creating people with no remorse capable of unspeakable horrors."
You see Dahmer not only didn't believe he would eventually pay for his crimes (which is my interpretation of what he was saying about evolution), but he also had no ability to have empathy for his victims.
The liberal world takes responsibility away from people. Alcohol is a disease, Criminals are a product of poor parenting, Rev. Wright is racist because of previous wrongs to his race, Hillary "misspoke" about Bosnia. All this instead of calling a lie a lie.
Very thoughtful posting. I like the way you allow for the possibility that religion might indeed be an opiate of the masses. The thing is, though, that if it is here to control the riff-raff it can only work that way if there is a priesthood actively using it that way.
Secularism, on the other hand, can enslave the masses just as effectively, through raw instinct and mob rule. People end up marching, like ants, around a hairpin turn, facing the exact opposite direction from where they began. They seek to be liberated from rules and end up drowning in rules.
Here's a great example: The environmental movement. We must change our light bulbs, we must drive smaller cars, we must turn our lights off tonight, we must live less life...must must must, all of it having to do with diminishing ourselves and the things we do. Why must we do these things? Because we're the "stewards of the earth's resources," of course. And yet -- in a godless universe, nobody is around to demand that we take on this responsibility! How'd we get it?
I just want to say that I logged into Google just now and they've turned their page black for the "earth hour" or whatever. That reminded me to go turn on every light in my house. I'm protesting.
Great comments both...so glad to have you here!
LOL Fox! You and me both with the light thing!
A creation of a serial is merely up to the person the selves. you see in our lives we have 2 sides to us. We all have a good side and have a bad side. such as in case of Jeffrey dahmer jeffrey found solace in aloholism and homsexuallly and others thing. you seee the serial is made by merely the person suppressing anger, resentfulness and low self and high slef esteem and then the evil comes form the desire which the bible tells that we have choice in letting them emoons of anger and wrath take over our lives. we must first look at ourelves and ask our self"Should I be the purpitraior" should I do harm to others"
When in fact you come to Jesus and learn his ways then the spirit of God will come upon. and all those thoghts and feeling will Vanish
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