@Smokin Joe
@Freya
I grew up years before you did; no one locked their car doors or house front doors in the daytime if you were home. There was prayer every day in school. People thought you were "weird" if you didn't go to church. By the time I was a sophomore in high school, I was the church pianist and in church four times a week - played piano Wednesday night, early Sunday morning pastor picked me up and we went to a radio station in Kilgore, TX, about 10 miles. I played him on the radio and off the radio. Then, it was back to church a few hours later for Sunday school and I played the piano for the regular church service; then back again that night for church again. The above is what most people did back then - went to church that much (except for the radio thing).
Now, church is talked about as if it is a disease - "You go to church?" The message of Jesus Christ is, "Love one another." That message is gone for most people. This present killer did not do that. If everyone loved, no one would be murdered. Take God away and you have Sodom and Gomorra - which is this country now - any behavior is okay. The killing is never going to stop and I think it will get worse and then worse again and then worse again. Christ is going to return one day and that will stop the killing of God's people.
You wouldn't leave your front door open so bad guys could walk in. No, if someone wants in, you don't open the door until you know it is okay for that person to come in. We have to do the same thing at schools - no one comes in until he/she is checked to be sure he/she is a good person.
What a shame so many million people in this country don't follow Christ's teaching - love one another.
Those seeds of hatred were being sown while I was in High School, during the Vietnam War. I remember saying the Lord's Prayer in school, and the Pledge of Allegiance. When acknowledgement (if not worship) of The Almighty was kicked out of the schools, and loyalty to our Republic was, too, the vacuum would inevitably be filled by something less, as it has.
The Communists thought the State would be worshiped instead, and for some it is, but the majority seem to be wrapped up in more hedonistic pursuits. Either way, the damage to the Republic, and to our society remains evident.
Until some d@mned dipsh*t teevee producer thought it would be a great idea to advertise that the police in a boom town were overwhelmed with a series of nationally shown productions advertising the wonders of this area for the budding criminal, we didn't lock our doors, either. After those shows aired, crime here skyrocketed.
While the LEOs have caught up to the problem, we didn't need that crap.
