Monday, May 09, 2005
Missing Kids...Unpunished Killers
We have had a rash, or so it appears on the news, of missing children in Florida. I don't believe this is strictly a Floridian problem, but they presently have the dubious honor of being forefront in the news concerning this horrific subject.
Now, I am a Christian and believe the blood of Jesus can save any heart that is willing to accept the sacrifice He made for our sin. Still, I wonder if some people reach the point where, as the Scripture puts it, "God gave them over to a reprobate mind." In short, I take that as saying that although anyone can be saved, some have reached the point where even the Holy Spirit can't get through to them.
My point? I don't want anyone in Hell and pulling the execution switch could not be easy, but how many children are going to die while liberal judges and legislators are trying to figure out a way to incorporate these beasts into society. We lock them up for a decade or so, they're like a horse in the gate waiting to go free, they grab the first child that opportunity allows and we have endless debates about whether the death penalty actually inhibits crime. No one can deny that a dead child molester cannot harm a child!
I appreciate the new law fought for by Jessica Lunsford's father and passed in Florida by Governor Bush and the state legislature. (I certainly hope it gets past their Supreme Court.) Yet, new laws will soon become like old laws...uninforced.
The pervert who took this little girl from her family broke easily a score of laws, but the poor child is just as dead and no amount of punishing him can bring her back. He had molested children before, but still found himself roaming free violating his parole rules with no one in authority even aware of it.
Liberals want to cry and wine about what sort of society it makes us to put criminals to death. I want to know what sort of society it makes us that we let baby-rapers live and roam free while children are locked up in our homes! What do we gain from allowing a man to live who would rape his own preadolescent daughter, or son, or do the same someone else's child, for that matter. Why do we suffer a man who rapes and buries alive a nine year old girl to keep using up good oxygen not to mention the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost to keep him incarcerated every year?
If a man is capable of such an atrocity, we, as Christians, should know that sending him to the ultimate Judge is only fitting. We who believe in life after death know that mercy and vengeance are in the hands of Almighty God and sending a convicted murder/molester to His court is just and right. So, let God sort them out. He alone knows our hearts and minds and can adjudicate our eternal guilt, innocence or even our need for mercy.
Now, I am a Christian and believe the blood of Jesus can save any heart that is willing to accept the sacrifice He made for our sin. Still, I wonder if some people reach the point where, as the Scripture puts it, "God gave them over to a reprobate mind." In short, I take that as saying that although anyone can be saved, some have reached the point where even the Holy Spirit can't get through to them.
My point? I don't want anyone in Hell and pulling the execution switch could not be easy, but how many children are going to die while liberal judges and legislators are trying to figure out a way to incorporate these beasts into society. We lock them up for a decade or so, they're like a horse in the gate waiting to go free, they grab the first child that opportunity allows and we have endless debates about whether the death penalty actually inhibits crime. No one can deny that a dead child molester cannot harm a child!
I appreciate the new law fought for by Jessica Lunsford's father and passed in Florida by Governor Bush and the state legislature. (I certainly hope it gets past their Supreme Court.) Yet, new laws will soon become like old laws...uninforced.
The pervert who took this little girl from her family broke easily a score of laws, but the poor child is just as dead and no amount of punishing him can bring her back. He had molested children before, but still found himself roaming free violating his parole rules with no one in authority even aware of it.
Liberals want to cry and wine about what sort of society it makes us to put criminals to death. I want to know what sort of society it makes us that we let baby-rapers live and roam free while children are locked up in our homes! What do we gain from allowing a man to live who would rape his own preadolescent daughter, or son, or do the same someone else's child, for that matter. Why do we suffer a man who rapes and buries alive a nine year old girl to keep using up good oxygen not to mention the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost to keep him incarcerated every year?
If a man is capable of such an atrocity, we, as Christians, should know that sending him to the ultimate Judge is only fitting. We who believe in life after death know that mercy and vengeance are in the hands of Almighty God and sending a convicted murder/molester to His court is just and right. So, let God sort them out. He alone knows our hearts and minds and can adjudicate our eternal guilt, innocence or even our need for mercy.
