With every school shooting, many
people clamor for more gun control … as if that would solve the problem. That’s an odd solution when you consider guns
use to be at schools … long before there were school shootings.
Rev. Paul Blair, a
Baptist minister in Oklahoma recently wrote an article talking about guns in
his own public school background. Blair
said, “In the school parking lot, every fourth car was a pickup truck, most of
which had a rifle rack in the back window, a deer rifle hung on the rack and
the windows rolled down. We never heard of
such a thing as a school shooting. We
knew right from wrong. We knew morality.
Most of the students went to church as
did most of our teachers.”
Of course, guns in the wrong hands can
cause many problems. But the real issue isn’t
more gun control, but the sinful heart of people.
Dr. D. James Kennedy and Dr. Jerry Newcombe wrote a book
entitled – “What If The Bible Had Never Been Written?” In this 1998 book, they noted, “Many of the
humanists’ goals have been realized in the public school arena. They have managed to throw the Bible out of
the schools. But the result has not been
what they imagined. By every conceivable
criterion, our public schools are a mess, and the banishing of our rich
Judeo-Christian heritage in the schools has everything to do with it.” [Note: This was before school shootings
began.]
Others have said we need heart
control, as opposed to gun control. One
man, E. Keith Easter, wrote: “Take the guns, planes, subways, knives, cars,
trucks, hammers, axes and drugs away and unless we as a people have a heart
change, more and more people will find something to use as a weapon.”
Dr. Erwin Lutzer, pastor emeritus of
the Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, wrote “Exploding the Myths That Could
Destroy America.” In this book he said
on the absence of religion and its impact on morality: “An atheist’s logic
tells him that he is of no more value than a baboon or a grain of sand, yet his
life contradicts such a conclusion. He
may provide for his wife and family, and if you were to steal his car he would
want you to be punished – all this because he is created in the image of God.” Then Lutzer makes a chilling prediction in
this 1986 book: “We have not yet seen the full result of humanism in the United
States. We are still coasting on the values
derived from our rich Judeo-Christian heritage.”
William McGuffey, the 19th century
author of the best-selling “McGuffey Readers,” predicted: “Erase all thought
and fear of God from a community, and selfishness and sensuality would absorb
the whole man … Virtue, duty, principle, would be mocked and spurned as
unmeaning sounds. A sordid self-interest
would supplant every other feeling; and man would become, in fact, what the
theory of atheism declares him to be – a companion for brutes.”
We hear the growing call for more and
more laws … as though a thicker book of regulations could solve the problem. Yet we’ve seen that even the current laws and
protocols are not properly enforced.
Founding Father, John Adams, noted
that a free society must be a virtuous society, writing, “Our Constitution was
made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of
any other.”
Our public schools have been turned
into zones where Judeo-Christian morality is generally not allowed. We need to earnestly pray for a spiritual
awakening across this nation. We are reaping
what we have sown by essentially expelling God in our public schools.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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