Girl Children in America

I appreciate your feelings but there is nothing anyone can do to make this world a better place.
We live in a fallen world, we are fallen creatures, sin is in us, with us, and around us.
Until the Lord of Lords and King of Kings returns, and this world is judged at the White Throne of His judgment, this world will remain at odds and in a collission course with the Righteous Judge.

Like everyone else, I am humbled by the spirit of forgiveness that the Amish people have.

In this instance, this forgiveness is well placed, for the family of the man who murdered the Amish children have nothing at all to do with the deed.

However, there are times when their concept of forgiveness works to their disadvantage and to the hurt of the one aggrieved, as in the case of the former Amish girl who left their community after having been told, in a church setting, to forgive and forget the dastardly act of repeated incest perpetrated upon her by her two brothers, one older and the other younger. This after the perpetrators admitted having raped her repeatedly. The older brother since she was about 8 or 9 years old. She now lives apart from the Amish community, smokes, drinks, parties, listens to hard rock and metal, drives a car.

Nevertheless, as a people, the Amish are sincere and peaceful.
Their act of forgiveness was not missed by the world.
As a matter of fact, media kept asking "how can you forgive such an act perpetrated upon you ?".

As for the acts of violence perpetrated upon children in a place where most parents used to deem them safe, I would like to share with you some snippets of a write up by somebody:

 

The "baptist pastor from Kansas" you quote is Fred Phelps of Westboro "Baptist" "Church." He is a sorry piece of filth that only represents his inbred flock of idiots.

Me getting rid of my gun does nothing to help others. My gun has never killed anyone, and never will--unless it's an intruder coming into my house.

I appreciate your passion, but it needs quite a bit of refining.

And I am doing something to make this world better--I am a minister who reaches out to teens.

 

The deranged male (sometimes female) who barges into a school and shoots someone is a tiny blip on the numbers. Fact is, most people shoot someone they know, a family member or a neighbor. Often, it's by mistake, or an accident, or a misidentification of the victim as an intruder. Accidents cause a large number of fatalities, mostly caused by idiots who have never had a gun safety course.

That being said, a study in the early 90s by the National Safety Council, using NRA stats on the number of people who shot or scared off a threatening intruder with a firearm, suggests that about 20% of Americans live in areas so dangerous that it's safer to have a gun than not to have one.

Now, that's frightening. We do have a problem with violence, and while homicide rates declined in the 90s to the lowest levels ince 1966, they have leveled off in recent years.

 

I've lived in an Amish community, and there are good and bad points to their lifestyle.

I definitely took notice of the attitude displayed by them in this tragedy. It is commendable.

I don't think now is the time to point out the flip side, so I won't.

What can we do?

We can quit normalizing porn and quit openly promoting an "anything goes" type of sexuality. It's destroying minds and lives.

How can we stop it? When we refuse to participate in it, when we life the Christian lifestyle and show others that ours is the better way, we're doing that.

That's really about it. Christ is the answer. Not enough people have Christ, so they still have the problem.

It's a horrible tragedy, what's happening lately. I took a couple years off just not reading the news, but lately I've been going online and reading CNN. It's all about sex crimes now it seems. For the last few days, the headlines shown have been about these sexually-oriented school shootings, torture chambers, watched a news show type thing on tv where a man kept young girls one at a time in a dungeon. (good Christian man btw)

We've allowed the normalizing of porn the open promotion of an anything-goes sexual lifestyle. We've done it in the name of freedom, of equality, etc.. Not all of us. But many of us. "it's their business". Or we're too polite to be honest.

 

So then, you don't believe that we live in a sinful world full of sinful creatures, and that God will one day end and judge the world?

That's not Muslim, it's straight from a little book I call the Bible.

You sure do like to criticize everyone who posts, don't you?

 

That is the most disgusting insult I have ever received on this board. How dare you compare, or insinuate, that I am anything like a pedophile.

You make me sick. You want to pick fights? Go right ahead. But do not make those accusations against my character.

I have reported your post. I hope you get banned.

Disgusting.

 

Barbarian observes:
The deranged male (sometimes female) who barges into a school and shoots someone is a tiny blip on the numbers. Fact is, most people shoot someone they know, a family member or a neighbor. Often, it's by mistake, or an accident, or a misidentification of the victim as an intruder. Accidents cause a large number of fatalities, mostly caused by idiots who have never had a gun safety course.

That being said, a study in the early 90s by the National Safety Council, using NRA stats on the number of people who shot or scared off a threatening intruder with a firearm, suggests that about 20% of Americans live in areas so dangerous that it's safer to have a gun than not to have one.

Now, that's frightening. We do have a problem with violence, and while homicide rates declined in the 90s to the lowest levels ince 1966, they have leveled off in recent years.

If I missed one, feel free to show me. I appears you don't know what to say about the data.

Horsepucky. Accidental shootings are very common.

Different issue. You do understand that "having an accident" and "not being responsible" are two different things, don't you?

Just pointing out facts. If you find them offensive, you might want to think about it. I don't really know what "side" you are on, but it doesn't matter. Facts are not obliged to meet our expectations.

I am, BTW, in favor of the right to bear arms, even though I recognize guns in the hands of foolish people cause a great deal of harm. Freedom is more important than security. In fact, without freedom, there can be no security at all.

 

Cranston36, this is off topic but I must ask. Your profile says you are 85 years old and that you drive a bus for a living. Please tell me you are retired. Please tell me that you don't actively drive a bus now.

 

It's the worst one I've seen yet and I've seen some pretty bad.

 

I'm sensing a certain trollishness here.

 

I've reported him...hopefully a mod will come lock this one down and plant a size 10 boot in some hind parts...

...I try to be careful when I write...I don't even know if I've ever had a post edited or deleted (not many if I have)...but when someone compares me to a pedophile, the gloves tend to come off.

 

Yea I have already sent a report as well.

 

Well, we do have Muslims in the Philippines, yes, but I don't think they have a concept of sin and a second coming of Christ as we Christians know and understand these.
They don't believe Christ is the Son of God, how much more the coming Judge ?
Your remark is kinda confusing.