Periodically

an article comes across your path that just must be

shared! Here it is in its uncut form. It was taken from

Paul Harvey who read this on his radio show.

"For

the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone

wrong in Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept

their children away from the guns, we wouldn't have had

such a tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns.

It couldn't

have been because half of our children are being raised

in broken homes.

It couldn't

have been because our children get to spend an average of

30 seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents

each day. After all, we give our children quality time.

It couldn't

have been because we treat our children as pets and our

pets as children. It couldn't have been because we place

our children in day care centers where they learn their

socialization skills among their peers under the law of

the jungle while employees who have no vested interest in

the children look on and make sure that no blood is

spilled.

It couldn't

have been because we allow our children to watch, on

average, seven hours of television a day filled with the

glorification of sex and violence that isn't fit for

adult consumption.

It couldn't

have been because we allow our children to enter into

virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill

as many opponents as possible in the most sadistic way

possible.

It couldn't

have been because we have sterilized and contracepted our

families down to sizes so small that the children we do

have are so spoiled with material things that they come

to equate the receiving of the material with love.

It couldn't

have been because our children, who historically have

been seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as

either a mistake created when contraception fails or

inconveniences that parents try to raise in their spare

time.

It couldn't

have been because our nation is the world leader in

developing a culture of death in which 20 million to 30

million babies have been killed by abortion.

It couldn't

have been because we give two-year prison sentences to

teenagers who kill their newborns.

It couldn't

have been because our school systems teach the children

that they are nothing but glorified apes who have

revolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud by

teaching evolution as fact and by handing out condoms as

if they were candy.

It couldn't

have been because we teach our children that there are no

laws of morality that transcend us, that everything is

relative and that actions don't have consequences. What

the heck, the president gets away with it!

Nah, it

must have been the guns."

I would

like to add some quotes from Kay Arther's (Precept

Ministries, Chattanooga, Tenn.) July 1999 newsletter. She

asked, "Have you ever stopped to wonder why humanity

cannot achieve peace on this earth? It's not that we lack

brilliant and talented men and women. Will it even be

possible for man to straighten out man?

Man and

women persist in believing that they can instill the

moral, ethical structure of Jesus' teaching without

instilling Jesus as their king. The nations want peace

but not the Prince of Peace!"

Yes, the

violence in the schools was aided by easy access to guns

children, but if guns were not available the Columbine

youth would have used something else!

Intelligent

gun legislation is necessary but legislation is a

Band-Aid on a big sore. It does not address the virus!

Violence in our society is a HEART PROBLEM!

The heart

of our nation and its citizens need a heart transplant

and who to do it better than the Great Physician, Jesus

Christ!

(Dr.

Knox Herndon is a recently retired U.S. Army chaplain and

pastor of His House Community Church, 193 Johnson Ave.,

Fayetteville, behind the Mask Tire Co. Herndon can be

reached at 770-719-2365 or by e-mail, [email protected] .)

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