There is good in the world, there
is evil. The good is lead by God,
the evil by the devil. In the end, if you believe this or not it changes
nothing in the world. God is still
there and so is the devil.
If you are not doing God’s work, you are working for the devil. As we find our country growing further
from God, be not surprised at the outcome.
Please take the time to read the
following letter from Bishop Jerry Ogles, our leader.
Dear
Friends and Family:
This church is appalled at the senseless and cruel shootings that
occurred in Newtown, Connecticut on this past Friday morning. Many innocent and
very young children were sent to their deaths at the hands of a crazed gunman,
not unlike the deaths of millions of unborn innocents murdered in abortion
mills across America.
There will once more follow a hue and cry for the ban of guns -
the possession of which is protected (for a Reason) by the Bill of Rights of
the US Constitution. It is a common ploy of those with a political agenda. A
gun in the hands of a righteous person poses no threat to anyone. But in the
hands of the lawless and maniacal, it, like an ax or a knife, is a deadly
device. Instead of blaming guns, or cars, or the surgeon's knife, for
unwarranted murders, why not admit that the deprivation of moral teaching to
the young in our schools and at all levels of society has resulted in
disastrous consequences? "Be not deceived, God is not mocked."
This is a sober warning from our God. Shall we heed it, or will we continue to
blame our wickedness on inanimate objects.
Please join with me in praying for the families of these innocent young
children who were so heartlessly murdered in their classrooms. I would hope
that these young ones were able to call upon the name of the Lord in their
fears and terrors, but where would they have learned His Name?
In Christ at Advent,
Jerry L. Ogles
+Jerry L. Ogles, DD, Presiding Bishop
Anglican
Orthodox Communion Worldwide & Chancellor, Faith Theological
Seminary
Article
from Irene Teas by Christian Adams - Evil is to Blame
Pay close attention to what gets
blamed for the Newtown school shooting. Evil is to blame for these horrific
murders and nothing else. Listen closely to the rhetoric over the coming weeks.
How often will evil be named as the cause of the horror?
Not often, I suspect.
Some dispute the existence of
conscious, deliberate, unseen evil. Perhaps that's why blame for the murderous
horror will fall elsewhere. Some consider the mention of evil in public
discourse to be unseemly. Belief in pure deliberate evil can be inconvenient,
because it includes other necessary beliefs.
Failing to name it evil lets evil
flourish. If the sight of planes slamming into the World Trade Center towers
wasn't enough to comfortably believe in evil, maybe the horror in Connecticut
will be.
Denial of conscious, deliberate
evil makes it easier to deny the existence of conscious and deliberate good. If
deliberate evil exists, then deliberate good must also. Otherwise human history
would be one long ruinous loop of Stalin's gulags and Pol Pot's murder
factories. Thankfully, those black times are broken up by goodness.
Evil seeks to destroy human life,
human dignity, and even civilizations. Goodness and light offer an alternative.
The sort of world we have is determined by what you and those around you
choose. A man in Connecticut accepted evil.
Conditions, rough upbringings, or
worldly objects are convenient explanations when evil manifests itself for all
to see. Find any news account today and inventory what is being blamed for the
mass killing of children.
But the systematic and deliberate
slaughter of innocents is not a new story. It happened once before, after the
arrival of an alternative way. It was also featured in the industrial scale eradication
of European Jewry.
Spare no child of light, and
usher in an age of darkness.
How vile that the evil in
Connecticut arrived in this season of light and season of lights. All of those
innocent smiles and joyous expectations destroyed by a black wretched thing.
We'll hear lots of bluster about
how to prevent more school house murders. Nearly all of it is meaningless. The
only way to prevent such horror is to choose to love your neighbor as yourself,
to respect the dignity of human life, and to follow familiar laws thousands of
years old.
Easier said than done, right? How
could the goodness in many prevent the evil in one?
A culture that values goodness is
a necessary prerequisite to discouraging evil. A culture of light and life
relegates evil to the diminishing margins. This is a story as old as time. A
culture of violence toward life and toward the dignity of every human
eventually produces violence toward life, period. What else would you expect to
happen?
The Romans were dumbfounded by
the strange stubborn Jewish sect that prayerfully martyred themselves to Roman
savagery. The intoxicated and bloodthirsty roars of the coliseum could not
overcome the transformational power of the new alternative. Rome crumbled while
the philosophy of those martyrs transformed the world.
That's the story of this
Christmas, and that's why the evil in Newtown must be called by its true name.
