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Is This Your Pastor?

In case you’re not familiar with the passage, this ironic pastor has ironically tattooed this on his arm (ironically): “You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:28. How ironic, doing precisely what the law says his people are not to do.

I know that we are not justified by the law. No law will save us, for Christ’s righteousness has been imputed to us. Our only hope of salvation is Christ’s perfect fulfillment of the Law. But where Christ claimed to fulfill the Law, and while he made a mockery of Pharisaical interpretation of the Law, He, nor His apostles, ever ridiculed it nor showed contempt for it.

The Law, even as expressed in this passage, is a part of the story and plan of redemption. It has its purpose, and that purpose is one of respect and reverence.

The modern Evangelical church is plagued with antinomianism, that is, an anti-law belief that is much worse than tattoos and body modification. The modern church has rejected God’s moral Law (see Exodus 20 to see what that entails).

The Old Testament is God’s Word. The fear of God does not permit us to find a joke in it.

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers לֵ֝צִ֗ים;

Psalm 74:22 Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you חֶרְפָּתְךָ֥ all the day!

Proverbs 14:6 A scoffer לֵ֣ץ seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Proverbs 21:24 “Scoffer” לֵ֣ץ is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Proverbs 24:9 The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer לֵֽץ is an abomination to mankind.

2 Peter 3:3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers ἐμπαῖκται will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

Jude 18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, ἐμπαῖκται following their own ungodly passions.”

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What Every Demagogue Wants

“It is in connection with the deliberate effort of the skillful demagogue to weld together a closely coherent and homogeneous body of supporters that the third and perhaps most important negative element of selection enters. It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program—on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off— than on any positive task. The contrast between the “we” and the “they,” the common fight against those outside the group, seems to be an essential ingredient in any creed which will solidly knit together a group for common action. It is consequently always employed by those who seek, not merely support of a policy, but the unreserved allegiance of huge masses. From their point of view it has the great advantage of leaving them greater freedom of action than almost any positive program. The enemy, whether he be internal, like the “Jew” or the “kulak,” or external, seems to be an indispensable requisite in the armory of a totalitarian leader.”

Hayek, F. A.. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) (pp. 160-161). University of Chicago Press. Kindle Edition.

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The Education of Every Mass-Shooter

Every person who picks up a firearm, knife, or machete in order to murder innocent victims has been “socialized” to commit murder. Every child and young adult today has been conditioned in destruction, for every mass-shooter knows this:

  1. That he is only alive because her mother found her convenient.
  2. That he is alive only because his father didn’t push his mother to abort.
  3. That he is alive only because her mother didn’t learn of a congenital birth defect from an ultrasound.
  4. That he is alive only because he wasn’t one child too many.
  5. That he is only alive because her mother was willing to take time off from her career.

Every child living today knows that his or her life is by the permission of someone else; that the life they enjoy is not a right, but an allowance, a permission. There is nothing unique or special about them other than that they were wanted at a particular time. They may have had siblings who were not wanted, who were the disappeared. Some even knew their twin (and more) siblings in the womb before, suddenly, one was gone.

Every child living today knows that their life depends upon someone else’s permission and that someday they can choose life or death for another: their own child before birth, their own disabled child, or an aging parent.

Someday they may decide that life itself is not worth much. It doesn’t seem to mean much if it can be tossed away so easily. Every help is given to the mother who wants to end life, and very little to the life itself, or the mother who cherishes it.

Every mass-shooter has grown up in this world and has lived these truths. Each takes this to heart. Then they merely act on what they have been taught.

Is it not odd to expect a different behaviour than that which is taught?

When the lives of others are so worthless, is it a surprise that they become targets?

Can we expect a society of peace when life is so disregarded?

We cannot simultaneously instill a respect for life and its disregard.