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So, somebody tried to shoot up the Family Research Council!
ChristianGovernance eletter – August 16, 2012
So, somebody tried to shoot up the Family Research Council!
I read an article yesterday which reported on an apparent trend of America being under attack from right-wing terrorists, which the Miami Herald writer also called “white Christian men.”
The article was reprinted by TorStar, the publisher of Canada’s rabidly left-wing Toronto Star newspaper. (The company owns a number of papers, and I came across the article in the Waterloo Record.)
The next story I read about violence in America was this one: “Black Panthers Want to Crush Your Neck.” It reported: “A rant from a black woman from Tampa, Florida, blames the Republican Party, the Party that “hates black people” (her words), for the violence that’s going on in the city. She ended her rant on a “black power” radio station with this threat: “Our ‘Feet Will Be On Your Motherf***ing Necks’.” The article also reported on Black Panther aspirations to kill white babies. Click here to read more on that story, which begins as follows: “In a video posted at Breitbart.com on Tuesday, a New Black Panther Leader identified by The Blaze as possibly being King Samir Shabazz, said that blacks will have to kill white babies ‘seconds’ after they’re born, while suggesting bombing nurseries.”
The second story I heard about violence in America after reading that Waterloo Record article was also about a “white Christian man” – a.k.a. a university student who volunteered at a homosexual organization – who wounded a security guard in the offices of the Family Research Council, a Christian political organization.
With “white Christian men” like that, who needs enemies!!!
And you thought people gave up believing in fairy tales when they became adults!!! In fact, superstition and mythology is the stuff of Humanism. There should be no surprise on that point!
The most interesting aspect of the story
I read a fairly in-depth initial report on the FRC shooting in today’s Washington Post. There are a variety of interesting angles on this story, but I have yet to see any analysis on the details that struck me most.
Others have properly questioned how long it will take before the incident is billed a hate crime. The mainstream media and homosexual friendly politicians usually move faster than the speed of sound to label attacks and harassment of homosexuals as hate crimes, even before the evidence has been analyzed. Homosexuals have been known to fraudulently assert that they have been victims of a hate crime, but the reports of such fraud, as well as other cases where the “hate crime” label is rejected by the police, have already done their damage to truth by the time the evidence of fraud comes out. Meanwhile, all the pundits want to wait for the evidence before billing this homosexualist attack against Christians as a hate crime. Thankfully Christians don’t really care because Christianity wasn’t built upon the immature, victimization ideology that first inspired the notion of hate crime.
It’s also been noted that this shooting took place in a part of the United States that is governed by some of the strongest gun control laws in the nation. Oops… Better turn the whole country into a police state now! President Obama is probably on a conference call right now evaluating the political expediency of this very idea.
It’s also worth noting the reaction to the shooting by grassroots homosexuals and by the leaders of the homosexual industry. Click here for comments by homosexual activist leaders. Click here for vindictive homosexual blog comments.
But coming back to what interested me most… The Washington Post article noted the following: “They identified the suspect as Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28, of Herndon, who has a master’s degree from George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development.” And, “Allan P. Chan, 28, a former George Mason student, said he met Corkins at a campus gym about six years ago. They worked out together, lifting weights, and began to socialize and watch television together. Chan described Corkins as secretive and somewhat odd. Corkins’s Facebook page included no photos, not even his own, and he displayed an intense interest in the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. ‘He was a fanatic of Nietzsche,’ Chan said.”
If we want to actually solve problems in our society, we have to get to the root of them rather than focusing on symptoms and exploiting the hot-button components of a situation. That means understanding a person’s worldview or belief system. Too often in cases like this Christians trot along behind today’s non-Christians in dismissing a potentially rational basis for unsociable behaviour. Our society sends these perpetrators of crime to psychiatrists because they don’t want to admit the obvious about what motivates such people. They don’t want to believe that rational individuals could behave this way. Such conclusions are derived from a Darwinian chance-based notion of reality. Talk about an easy place for worldview-wise Christians to distinguish themselves from humanist thinkers. But how often do we Christians actually take advantage of such opportunities?
I regularly point out that the growing amount of violence, much of it vigilante in nature, by humanist activists is a logical outworking of their worldview. We see this violence most, I think, among homosexualists, abortion advocates and environmentalists, but they are all branches of irrational, blind faith Humanism. Humanism and Atheism are divorced from reality – just consider the thesis and article by that Miami Herald writer – so they become exasperated trying to make a rational case for their views. That is why they increasingly turn to violence. When argument doesn’t convince your opponents – when rational arguments in fact expose the errors of your own views – and you refuse to repent of them, then you have little choice but to withdraw from reality and society or to try to impose your views by force.
Messianic education!
Another vital point to note about Humanism is that it advances EDUCATION as its means of salvation. Christianity teaches that salvation/redemption comes from God in Christ. We are saved by God’s grace through faith. The Christian worldview teaches that education is a vital component of maturity and growth, but it is not a means of salvation. In fact, education without salvation is likely to make sinners more dangerous.
Having said all that, go back and see what the Washington Post article says about the shooter. Firstly, he was a Masters student – he has spent a lot of years getting an education in today’s humanistic institutions. He’s completed an undergraduate degree, and has moved into a graduate program. Not only that: Where is he studying: George Mason University’s College of EDUCATION and Human Development. He is not only getting an education, he is learning about education. His life revolves around the god of Humanism. He has been worshiping at the altar of Humanism’s idol.
Worse than that, it’s a school of education AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. Anthropology without a Biblical base is devastating. Looking at the nature of man, analyzing his wickedness, viewing mankind as the product of chance, a glorified – or, some might say, unglorified – ape. There’s no hope, let alone a real-world based framework for rational analysis of man, within Humanism. Yet, an attempt to understand human nature is logically essential for Humanists. What greater topic of study should there be for a humanist than man himself.
No wonder this shooter was a fan – or fanatic – of Nietzsche who repudiated Christianity, and who embraced the ethic of the powerful exploiting the weak.
This shooter is a product of his education. He is not insane, except to the extent that Humanism is insanity. Of course it is because it’s irrational. Insanity today, though, is often used in reference to behaviour that is considered unexplainable and arbitrary. That is not the case at all. The shooter’s behaviour is very predictable in light of having entrenched himself in modern humanist Education and Human Development. We should thank God that very few humanists, relatively speaking, act out in a way that is consistent with their worldview. Unfortunately, as previously noted, a growing number seem to be doing so, especially within the homosexualist, abortion and environmentalist movements.
Christians have no reason to be taken by surprise by such developments. Understanding worldview is essential for being spiritually and intellectually prepared for such developments – and for being able to combat them with the power of the living God through His Gospel and the devil-defeating victory of Christ in His death and resurrection.
Being armed for battle, powerful enough to tear down strongholds, means being a worldview Christian.