Thursday, August 6, 2015

"Honey forget the popcorn, I'll take some ammo"


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Just how uncertain is your next breath? Considering there has been 2 movie theater attacks in the past month; I would say, “Very uncertain”. I would go as far as to say, “Where can a person go and really feel comfortable?” We live in a society that glorifies violence in entertainment; from cage fighting to graphic horror flicks and we act stunned and bewildered when a person goes into a church and kills 9 innocent people. We are dumbfounded when a man beheads his wife, and kills his pets, only after he tears an eye out of his eye socket and amputates a limb.

If people are being used as target practice inside of a bible study, what makes us believe that we are safe at a doctor’s appointment? This life is so frail that even a firearm cannot ensure our safety. We have created a culture where every human has to be on high alert while at the store, pumping gas, at school, in the park, on the road, at church, in the movies, at the doctor, at work and yes, even while we sleep. How can compassion be demonstrated in a blood soaked culture; where even “Good Samaritans are gunned down for attempting to assist someone who appears to be stranded on the side of the road?

ANSWER: We are either going to degrade ourselves into animals; creating a human version of Animal Planet, in which we destroy one another OR we make the “Choice” to LOVE.

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