Reaction to the CT School Shootings

As a school teacher for the past 27 years, I can say that we don’t just teach children.  We love them, play with them, encourage them, discipline them, cheer for them, laugh with them, praise them, and then love them some more.  If you’ve ever been one of my students, you will always be one of “my kids.”  If a gunman came after you, I would do everything I could to protect you.

How could something like this happen …

The government has systematically taken God out of our culture.  We are not to speak of Him in public.  We disallow the 10 Commandments from being hung in public places.  We disallow the nativity to be out at Christmas.  We say Happy Holidays not Merry Christmas.  We ban public prayer. However, these things did not cause this shooting.  The reason goes deeper…

There has been a cultural shift over the last generation from a God-centered culture to a self-centered culture.  We encourage self-expression.  You can say or do anything you want because that is your right.  We even encourage children to do this. Kindergarten kids curse in school and we laugh at it and think it is cute. 

We have raised a generation of children who all got trophies in everything they ever participated in.  No one loses.  Our children haven’t learned to deal with defeat. We have so guarded their self-esteem that they now lack it because nothing has meaning. 

We’ve dismissed the Bible as the basis for all truth.  We have no moral absolutes.  We do what feels right.

We have no “family unit”.  Marry whoever you please – no matter what sex they are.  Our children have no concept of a natural loving family that encourages each other and spends time with each other.  We have taken away all discipline until each child does whatever he wants.  We’ve raised a generation that hasn’t been held accountable for anything.  Parents try to buy their kids love and obedience through expensive toys.

We don’t teach them about the Creator God who loves them and who has created them exactly as they are for His purposes and glory.  We don’t teach them that God is all knowing and it is Him who we ultimately are accountable to.  Instead, we teach them that life is disposable and if it is inconvenient, then just abort it. 

We, as a nation, have turned our backs on God.  We don’t fear Him and we don’t worship Him.  Then why are we surprised when our young people kill each other?  Where have they learned that they are fearfully and wonderfully made?  Where have they heard that the God of the Universe loves them and wants to know them personally?  Not in school. Why – because teachers are forbidden to talk about God with their students.  We can hand out condoms but not Bibles.  We can teach about evolution but not creation.  We must teach tolerance of all kinds of sin but we can’t teach to love God with your whole heart and to love your neighbor as yourself.

It is time our nation got on its knees and humbled itself and prayed for forgiveness.  These events are what we now reap for what we’ve sowed.