What the Real Problem Is

The Myth of Evolution

"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done."--Romans 1:28

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says it's time to ban assault weapons. Ditto, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel who presides over one of the most violent cities in America.

Such is the rhetoric in the wake of last Friday's catastrophe that occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Ct. Too many guns and too many assault weapons, and they have to be eliminated.

What Durbin either intentionally or ignorantly failed to mention is that most gun homicides are committed by handguns rather than by assault weapons. While gunman Adam Lanza did in fact use a Bushmaster .223 assault rifle during his attack at the elementary school, he also used two handguns. Even without the .223, Lanza would've still committed mass murder. 

What Emanuel failed to mention is that practically all of Chicago's 2012 homicides (516) have been committed by handguns rather than by assault weapons. Not so ironically, Chicago has had a handgun ban for many years. The only thing that Chicago's handgun ban has accomplished is to keep handguns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens rather than criminals.  

Nevertheless, it's always easy for politicians and do-good social activists to pontificate about gun control after tragedies such as Sandy Hook. Gun control rhetoric points fingers at gun shops, gun shows and the NRA which always sounds good, sounds politically correct and only offends gun owners who are considered stupid and ignorant.

However, the real underlying factor for tragedies such as Sandy Hook is the growing malignancy of godless humanism that has evicted God and His transcendent moral laws from the public square. Beginning in the early 1960s, school prayer, the Bible and the 10 Commandments (1980) have systematically been removed from America's public school classrooms because they allegedly violated the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment Establishment Clause that supposedly mandates a wall of separation between church and state.

In reality, the Establishment Clause merely prohibits the establishment of a national church or religion rather than the free exercise of religion in America's public schools. However, leftists and humanists have purposely misconstrued the clause to drive all vestiges of God and His laws out of classrooms and the public square.

Since the early 1960s, the results of God's disappearance from the public square have been tragic and obvious; rising crime, soaring moral depravity and increasing incidents of catastrophic violence such as the Sandy Hook massacre.

Instead of being taught the clear distinction between right and wrong and moral accountability to a Holy God who hates sin, children are taught that they are merely the end products of millions of years of random evolutionary forces. Thus, if they're convinced that there is no God, then His transcendent moral laws and commandments are nothing but human constructs that can be ignored, changed or perverted by the powerful elites.

That's the real problem in America today and throughout much of the world. The real problem is man's fallen sinful nature, not guns, assault weapons or any of the various social pathologies that leftists love to use to rationalize away evil. The antidote for evil is the acknowledgment, honor and respect for a Holy God and his unchanging moral laws. Nearly 3,000 years ago, King Solomon wrote: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." (Proverbs 1:7)