Enemy of the People: New York Times Op-ed on Holy Weekend: Let’s Get Rid of God
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Random acts of murder is a very bad idea. But there are things we can do collectively that will empower honest leaders and law enforcement.
1 - Support the first amendment - speak out, and don't be tolerant of evil. When someone does something evil, don't be afraid to be upset about the evil deed, and and have feeling for the victims. The MSM tries to get us to focus on the perp as the victim and too many people fall right into the trap. Now it's all the excuses about the poor criminal's upbringing and environment. BS. They made a choice, now they need to pay for it. I'm not afraid to say "that criminal needs to be removed from society or kicked off the planet before they hurt anyone else. And remind people, they, or one of their family members could be the next victim if we allow this to continue.
We will always have politicians with no spine, so we might as well push them in the right direction.
2 - Support the second amendment. This is what they fear the most, because it prevents them from allowing evil to run rampant. If you are an honest citizen, learn how to handle a gun. For those who can, get a permit to carry. We can be the last person a criminal ever attempts to do evil to. Stopping a criminal isn't about getting revenge, it's about stopping crime and preventing others from being hurt and their lives destroyed. So we need to have the right perspective, and some mental toughness. Understand, I'm not trying to be an internet tough guy. The last thing I want to do is shoot anyone. Seriously. That's something that changes people, and they have to live with it for the rest of their lives. It's a personal sacrifice I don't want to make. But if someone threatens me (and my family indirectly), or my family, then they haven't given me a choice. FWIW, I did church security for a few years (voluntarily - I was asked to do it), so this isn't theoretical for me.
Thank you for taking the time to write such a serious and well thought out response.
I see so many of these types of statements ( i.e. "the time for peace is over, it's now time for action") that I wonder what exactly they mean by it. Truly. Because what can I as an individual actually do.
I see many of these types of conversations call for violence ("I'll shoot any pedo I see and then they can take the gun from my cold dead hands!") and then see pretty much the same number insist that no one is calling for violence.
And quite honestly, it seems that the majority of these types of comments are simply people being keyboard commandos.
The keyboard commandos are disturbing, to say the least. And they don't help the cause. There are people here who are very skilled with firearms and in dealing with threats, but you'll never hear much out of them. I wasn't in the military, or LE, so I won't pretend to know what they've gone through. But ask anyone who has had to defend themselves from a deadly threat, and it's not without cost.
Let's be honest, life threatening situations are Life Threatening. It isn't a video game where you dust off your pride and go back for more. And going out looking for trouble is asking for an ass kicking.
I like to think of it as just be a mama bear. She will quietly go about her business, and take care of babies. Go after her babies, and all bets are off.
One more thing - I pray for the Lord to watch over and protect me and my family. He can do a much better job than I can.
That's an excellent way to view things, I think. Both the Mama Bear and looking to the Lord, I mean.
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If not calls to violence, there are many violent fantasies that I see posted, about what sort of violent end would GAW posters bring to pedos or the DS. It's a bit disturbing honestly, because I believe focusing on such things or directly imagining and wishing for such things poisons your heart, probably doesn't make God very happy, and it's often just exceedingly graphic in what these posters write and describe. Yet as you've said, I see people constantly also say "there's no calls to violence." Well, maybe not exactly directly, but there's plenty of violent fantasies running rampant in the comments on nearly every post, and in the heads of these people. Can't be good for one's Karma...
You are right. Besides, it isn't good to focus on revenge - it is mine to avenge says the Lord. I think there is a righteous anger, but it comes from having a heart for the victims and the helpless.
One has to be careful with righteous anger though, because even if you may start in the right, if you're not careful that righteous anger will end up making you in the wrong again just by your response. One can quickly use righteous anger as the justification for bad or negative behavior, and then the position of righteous anger is no longer righteous and just full of anger and violent fantasies. It's good to have a heart for child and all victims of violence, but answering such things with violent imagery, violent fantasies, or potential violent action will cause one's downfall from righteousness quickly.
I agree with 100% of what you've said.
There are so many posts where someone talks about how they want there to be televised executions of child rapists and DS and so forth (and they're coming up with some extremely graphic and disturbing forms of execution).
And so many times I get the impression that the thing that's most important to them isn't stopping children from being raped or crimes against our country. It's getting their rocks off from watching people suffer in some seriously messed up fashion.
And I believe with every fiber of my being that things like that damage one's soul.
Like you said, it can't be good for their Karma
I admit, I've been calling for public executions of some of these people. For specific reasons. I know they would go out and repeat their evil crimes if given a chance. For another, some of their victims, and those who they have threatened, will not rest easy while they live. That's a sad fact of life. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others who would follow in their footsteps of evil, and fear of punishment and death might dissuade some of them from making those choices. We have all the evidence we need to prove that when evil runs the government, evil people are encouraged to commit evil against humanity.
Most importantly, for some of them, the only chance of salvation of their souls is to face certain death.