It’s Sunday Morning and I’m sitting at my computer contemplating
what I have been reading from around the web this morning. I have become aware
of the numbness in my reaction to certain headlines as I try to absorb some
relevance to what’s going on around me in the world and how it affects my life.
Sixth Youth Charged
in Delivery Driver's Murder
Ill. Supreme Court: Sex With 17-Year-Old Was
Legal, Pictures Were Not
Pet Piranha Bites Off Toddler's Fingertip
All of these headlines made me feel sad, but they also made
me curious as to how a country like the USA has allowed our society to
become so narcissistic, unrestrained and empty. Why will gangs murder for $48 dollars and some dim sung?.
Why are pictures more important than the soul of a 17 year old? Why do people
keep exotic pets that mean more to them than their children.
But the story that struck me as most odd and disturbing was:
*Eye For An Eye, Hair
For Hair? Judge Orders Price Woman
To Cut Off Daughter's Ponytail In Court
Teen had helped cut hair of 3-year-old girl she met at McDonald's
A troubled 14 year old girl and her 11 year old girl friend
sat in a booth at McDonald's plotting an attack on a three year old girl they
had started talking to and playing with. The two perpetrators first asked a
McDonald's employee if they could borrow a pair of scissors. They were told no.
They then walked across the street and bought a pair of scissors at a Dollar
Store. They went back to the McDonald's and proceeded to cut the little girl’s hair off to little to chin level
before the attack was stopped. The toddler had soft wavy hair the fell to the
middle of her back and had never been cut according to her mother. The older
girls were arrested.
At their trial, the older of the two girls was sentenced to serve
30 days in detention, pay restitution to her victims and serve 276 hours of
community service. But the Judge told the girl’s mother he would cut the
punishment in half if she would cut her daughter’s ponytail off, right in the
courtroom, at the request of the 3 year old mother. The older girl's mother accepted the off, but now has second thoughts. The 11 year old had already
had had her hair cut but was allowed to have it done in a beauty salon.
The older girls mother has since file a complaint against
the Judge stating she wished she hadn’t taken the Judges offer, stating: "I
guess I should have went into the courtroom knowing my rights, because I felt
very intimidated," adding "An eye for an eye, that's not how you
teach kids right from wrong.". He daughter had also been charged in another
crime of making obscene and threatening phone call, with threats of rape and
mutilation, to a teen in another state. Some of the calls were recorded.
I found this article to be disturbing on many levels. Obviously
the Judge was wiser than the mother who seems to have had no religious
instruction at all on how to raise her daughter to be a moral, kind, self-respecting person. And now she’s willing to go back to court to show her
daughter what the Judge did was wrong which means what her daughter did was
right.
All of theses headlines and stories have one thing in
common; we now know we live in a secular world, where things like kindness, morality
and self-control are all long ago norms, replaced by selfishness, greed,
laziness and mockery of a sane society.
The Bible was removed from our schools, replaced by moral relativism.
Do what feels good not what’s morally right. It’s so obvious. Unfortunately,
society is blinded to the truth. It rushes down the path of least resistance; the
path that leads to Hell.
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