Friday, April 19, 2013

The Devil Made Them Do It

What could turn a 19-year-old student into a calculating cold-blooded killer?   The political ideology is just the window dressing.  Whether it's the Atlanta Olympics, Oklahoma City, the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center, the Sandy Hook Elementary School or the Boston Marathon, the one thing all of these perpetrators had in common was that they acquiesced to the diabolical.

Sane, rational, morally-grounded people do not blow up, shoot or otherwise wreak havoc on society.  There is no moral justification for any of this, ever.

Watching two young men who looked like any other college students nonchalantly stride down a Boston street, knowing that the deadly cargo they carried in their backpacks would inflict carnage, was nothing less than chilling.  And yet people still don't believe that the devil exists.

Believe it.

6 comments:

  1. I can't help wondering what their parents must be going through.

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  2. Oh well let me moderate my own comment. Apparently the father, at least, is not terribly upset over his son's behavior. :(
    Am just hearing the second one may now have been apprehended.
    What a grisly business. Seems like our whole existence is bombarded with one kind of killing or another.
    Lord, have mercy.

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  3. Joyce...And he made them do it because IMHO they opened the door to him-- which too many seem to be doing these days. Grisly the right word for it all. Blessings +

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    1. Yes Kelly the father seems to be missing some of his marbles. Caroline, yes, a better heading for this would have been "They Did It Because of the Devil" Of course they opened the door to him.
      Peace
      Joyce

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  4. Joyce...Oh, I hope I didn't sound snippy in my quick answer ...
    Its just as you've been saying in the last few weeks..'abomination is the new normal.' People don't acknowledge a devil nor the consequences of opening the door to him, because we've exchanged the truth for so many lies.
    That's what I meant to say
    Your title is exactly right. : )
    Love and Blessings +

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    1. Caroline, oh no you did not sound snippy. I just thought you made an excellent point - that is, that the devil has no power over us that we don't hand to him.
      Love and prayers always!
      Joyce

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