Listening To The Killers
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 3 months ago
“Killers’ voices are missing from gun violence conversation,” New Prospect Baptist Church pastor Damon Lynch III asserts in a Tuesday opinion piece for Cincinnati’s The Enquirer. He’s referring to “the recent rash of shootings and murders in the city of Cincinnati over a three-day span, leaving 21 shot and 4 dead.”
As it turns out “Four of the people shot were connected to New Prospect Baptist Church, and two of those four died.” It’s fair to ask “Why?”
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“When the questions are raised on how we stop the violence, I think there is a voice often missing from the conversation,” he says. “But the voice never heard is that of the killers.”
“We need psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and researchers to go into the prisons and speak to those convicted of taking a life to ascertain the deep hidden ‘why’ of violent crime,” Lynch concludes.
Some pastor. It’s called Genesis Chapter 3. There. I saved him from having to go back to seminary again (it didn’t take the first time around).
Besides, if we followed the Scriptures like we should, we would put murderers and rapists to death and thieves into servitude to the ones from whom they stole until their debt was paid in multiples (see Greg Bahnsen, “Theonomy in Christian Ethics”).
There is no concept of imprisonment to be found in the Holy Writ, especially not for rehabilitation, or for a so-called “debt to society.” No one has a debt to society. If you or I have debts, it is to someone, not everyone.
On August 24, 2020 at 10:51 pm, 41mag said:
Cities of refuge would become a thing but that’s only for accidental deaths and so the victims family won’t be able to enact revenge.
See Numbers ch 35.
““ ‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.”
Numbers 35:16-17 NIV
On August 25, 2020 at 7:58 am, Sheepdog said:
The point of destroying societies morale compass is to give cover to the deviants.
Bolshevik behavior is against traditional American values, hence why the TRAD must be destroyed. In much of recent world history, where there is/was tyranny, there is/was persecution of Christian value systems.
Russian bolsheviks, Nazis, Maoists, Pol Pot on and on one could go to find examples of human beings destroyed for their belief in Christ, a belief in anything not glorifying the monsters killing them. Millions of them…
On August 25, 2020 at 8:14 am, Fred said:
Sheepdog, It’s deeper than that. The Jews hated Christ, and since the Gospel went west they hated the Europeans by extension following believers around and accusing them before Rome and having them killed. They hate Christ, and they hate you, even if you are not Christian they see Western Civilization, rightly, as an outgrowth of the spreading of the Gospel infusing “Christian Values” into society. The Bolsheviks are antichrist. They hated Christ, they hate you, they wanted Him dead and, they want you dead and any remnant of the NT system destroyed along with you. They are of their father the devil.