By John Stallings
In a case the police called shocking, six girls attacked another 16 year old girl & beat her severely just so they could video tape it & post it on the Internet.
On March 30, 2008, the victim, 16 year old Victoria Lindsay was lured to a home in Lakeland Florida & when she arrived two girls, school mates of hers, started yelling at her, one girl began to beat her & slammed her against the wall until she fell unconscious.
When she awoke on the couch there were six girls in total beating on her & video taping it all.
According to police, all the girls attacking the victim, Victoria Lindsay, were laughing & urging each other on, & two boys were standing guard outside the house.
All eight of those involved have been charged with battery & false imprisonment.
After the attack three of the teenagers forced the victim into a car & drove her to another location which adds the charge of kidnapping to the crime.
The 16 year old victim of the attack suffered a concussion as well as damage to her left eye & ear.
Polk county Sheriff Grady Wilder describes the attack as “shocking’, saying, “I’ve never seen anything like it….this is outrageous behavior & raw brutality.”
The attackers were described as cheerleaders, & at one point, one of them is heard to say, “There are only 17 seconds left; make it good.”
The young victim was heard pleading to have just one girl beat her but they refused to relent & said --“all of us are going to beat you.” I heard her mother & father interviewed & the father said he couldn’t bring himself to watch the video. The mother said she didn’t think her daughter would ever be able to get over the incident emotionally.
This type of brutality has become almost common place in America & has gotten so bad in recent years; some schools have had to install metal detectors to try to curb the violence.
What we see happening is the end result of an education system that has effectively eliminated God from the classroom. When that happened, generations of young people began to be indoctrinated with The Theory of Evolution, as though as it were Science.
It’s interesting, if not ironic that I went through the ninth & tenth grades in Lakeland. That would have been in 1954-55. I can remember a woman teacher we had in English class & at least once a week, as I recall, before class started she’d take out her Bible, read a bit & then she’d expound on the scriptures like a Bible teacher. We didn’t think anything was amiss & everyone accepted it as part of our educational process.
No one ever complained as far as I know, & certainly in those days we never had anything remotely akin to the violence that took place in Lakeland the other day.
Psalm 119:130 says, --The entrance of thy Word giveth light.......
This means that everywhere God's Word goes, things light up, & every place from which His word is removed, things go dark.
School children are being told they are nothing special—they are just animals that have evolved from some primitive form of life over the millions of years.
The more society as a whole thinks this way the more people will act consistently with what they’ve been taught. If life isn’t special then it has no value. If there’s no God, & thus no absolute authority, then anyone can decide right & wrong for themselves.
Most people, even the “wise” educators still can’t make the connection; -- that dating from the time when prayer & Bible reading were ejected from our classrooms, our schools began to slowly morph into hellish war zones.
When you mix the deadly evolution teaching with the absence of any spiritual emphasis, & an outright anti-God attitude in the schools, you then start to concoct a witch’s brew of hopelessness & life devoid of any purpose.
Romans 1:21-24
….Because although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were they thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened, professing themselves to be wise they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and birds & four-footed animals & creeping things, wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
Recently the following prayer was making the rounds on the Internet written by a school kid. If I had a name I’d gladly give credit;
Now I sit me down in school,
Where praying is against the rule,
For this great nation under God,
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow,
Becomes a federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple orange or green,
That’s no offense, it’s a freedom scene.
The law’s specific, it’s precise,
Prayers said alouds a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall,
I might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence I must meditate,
God’s name’s prohibited by the state.
We’re allowed to cuss & dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, our tongues & cheeks.
They’ve outlawed guns but first the Bible,
To quote it here would make me liable.
We elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the “unwed daddy,” our Senior King.
It’s inappropriate to teach right from wrong,
We’re taught such judgments don’t belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft vampires & totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments aren’t allowed,
No Word of God must reach this crowd.
Its scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns a school’s a mess.
So Lord this silent plea I make,
Should I be shot, -- my soul please take.
Imagine a public school teacher telling his/her students, “For the next few weeks you’re all going to become Christians.” Imagine that students had to wear crosses, memorize Christian prayers & recite them, memorize Christian concepts of the Eucharist & celebrate them, fast during lent & chant “Jesus is the Messiah.”
How long do you think it would take for the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] to file a lawsuit? A week? A day? A minute? As we’ve seen many times it would be immediate & very expensive for the school district which, when it lost would be forced to pay huge legal fees to the ACLU.
In 2000, a seventh grade teacher in California’s Byron Union School District, about fifty miles east of San Francisco forced her seventh-grade students to become Muslims for three weeks. Students had to wear a star & crescent, memorize Muslim prayers, verses & the five pillars of faith, fast during lunch period as if it were Ramahan, chant “Allah Akbar!” and play a dice game called “jihad,” which was defined for students as a “struggle against aggression.” What did the ACLU have to say about this? Nothing. Not a peep. Christian parents were outraged & filed a lawsuit federal court against the school with the assistance of the Thomas Moore Law Center.
The judge dismissed the case saying. “Well this was a typical educational program. The activities were not overtly religious, that would raise any “establishment cause concerns.” The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that dismissal in a “non-published opinion.”
The obvious question would be; are we a better & safer country because we’ve kicked God & His Ten Commandments out of our schools as well as the Market Place of America?
I don’t think so. It seems we can’t build jails fast enough. Jails aren’t the real answer; the real answer is realizing we’re in a spiritual battle. Until we invite God back into our homes, schools & government we’re fighting a losing battle. Christianity stops crime & violence because it addresses the real problem; the heart.
If we don’t get a heart change we don’t stop crime. It now depends on what God will do with America because He’s still in charge of the nations.
Psalm 47:8 says;
God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne.
WHAT CAN I DO FOR AMERICA?
1. PRAY FOR AMERICA
2. REPENT
3. SPEAK OUT
2 CHRONICLES 7:14
If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Blessings,
JAS
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