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Beaten To Death In America  

CaringInAction
9/28/2009 9:25 pm

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10/17/2009 3:22 am
Christianity has failed in Chicago. Derrion Albert, an 19 year old High School honor student, went to Church on Sunday, then Bible Class on Tuesday, then Thursday when school let out at 2:50pm and minding his own business he was walking to a bus stop. He was an innocent by-stander when two rival factions met and began fighting over an earlier shooting during the day. Each in turn started beating him. The first attack knocked him unconscious, and regaining consciousness he was then beaten to death by the second. The ages of the four students, now charged with murder, are 16, 17, 18, and 19.



This is America? This is Christian America? I feel the causes are so complicated that no one single cause can be singled out. It seems to me to be excess and riotous living that brings to dominance our savage untamed natures when void of the Holy Spirit. I believe everything the Bible talks about regarding the flesh, and its savage unruly desires, is in play here. The Bible never says that people have self control. It always says that self control is a gift of the Holy Spirit. So, there we go. Self indulgence is disaster. Spiritual mindedness brings peace.

Is it the schools, or the families, or the community that is the cause here? Actually, I believe what is happening in Chicago, and many communities around our country is a vaguely little understood concept known as community. The loss of community not only invites distress, but demands it. The strength of individuals and of families I feel is derived from the strength of communities. This loss of community is being represented now daily in the electorate. As human beings we desperately need to be connected to community, the loss of which is being reported hourly now in the tragedies of each days news broadcast.

How can we get community back? Usually an outside, higher, or larger force does this. Wars, and disease have done this for us in the past. But now these are not enough. I actually believe in the years ahead that Space travel and experiences may give us the pulling together we need. There has to be a reason for people to pull together. I see no reason or threatening force right now large enough to do this. I have little doubt however that it will come.
freewayryder
717 posts 

9/29/2009 8:59 am

 It is a combination of the breakdown of the family unit, lack of accountability to a higher power and the promotion of the additude of, Im number one,, that is the cause of the issues like this.


CaringInAction replies on 9/29/2009 8:05 pm:
Yes, trying to be number one brings us down to number last. Jesus said the first shall be last. Seek to save our life and we lose it. Lose our life in Jesus and we save it. The strength of community does not allow anyone to be number one unto themselves. This binding sense of community is protection for the individual. I am so sad. I cried when I saw this horrific tragedy. I thought I was beyond shock. But, this was numbing. The grandparent of Darrion Albert said that he was no problem at all. He was innocent, just minding his own business and the next moment he was getting beaten and stomped to death and bludgeoned by a railroad tie.

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