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The recent Easter weekend in Chicago had a familiar ring to it: violence, carnage, shootings and death. When the weekend finally ended, a total of 37 people had been shot and nine people were dead.
From chicagocbslocal.com: On Sunday night, (April 20) five children were injured in a drive-by shooting near Marquette and Michigan on the South Side. An 11-year-old girl was shot in the neck and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. A 15-year-old girl, who had a gunshot wound in her right arm, also was taken to Stroger.
And there was more: A 14-year-old girl was shot in the abdomen and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in serious condition, police said. A 14-year-old boy, who was wounded in his left leg, also was taken to Comer. A 14-year-old girl later walked into Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center with a graze wound in her buttocks, police said.
And more: On Sunday afternoon, a shooting left two men dead in South Lawndale. About 1 p.m. Sunday, an orange Hummer blocked a Lincoln Navigator head-on at the corner of 28th Street and Sawyer Avenue, Chicago Police at the scene said. Two people with guns then stepped out of the Hummer and fired nearly a dozen bullets at the Navigator, right under a police “blue light” camera.
Naturally, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy blamed the violence on lax gun laws. He and his boss, Mayor Rahm Emanuel never fail to repeat the liberal mantra that guns are the cause of Chicago's violent city streets. Tougher gun laws are needed, they repeatedly say after another deadly weekend.
And yet, Chicago has some of the strictest handgun laws in the United States. And the city has had those laws for many years. And still, the bullets fly and more people die.
Chicago doesn't have a gun problem--it has a moral problem. Like many cities and towns throughout America and the world, an increasing number of its citizens no longer fear God nor have any respect for His laws and commandments.
And the real tragedy of that reality is that some of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods happen to be home to many churches, from simple storefronts to elaborate buildings. Obviously, those churches provide little--if any--moral influence on the streets.
The simple reason why those churches and many others throughout the world are no longer able to influence their surrounding communities is because they're dead. They've made themselves irrelevant by failing to contend for the faith that the apostle Jude urged the early church to do unceasingly 2,000 years ago. (Jude 1:3)
And the Christian church's failure to heed Jude's words isn't a recent malady. The church began turning away from the Bible in the late 19th century to embrace humanistic ideologies (psychology, evolution) and the ecumenical canard that all religions are valid and lead to God.
While the Christian church went to sleep, godless humanists began taking over the culture by peddling atheistic evolution as the natural explanation for the presence of life on planet earth. The humanists took over schools and gained influence in academia, popular culture, the media and politics.
Millions of young minds were poisoned with the lie that human beings were nothing more than the end product of millions of years of random evolutionary forces. Life became cheap and meaningless. Human life was no longer viewed as created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26), but was considered just one step beyond primates.
With that prevalent worldview, it wasn't a surprise that moral depravity began to sweep across the world like a flood of sewage. Without the fear of God and knowledge of His laws, many people saw no moral accountability for there actions.
Thus, moral restraints were cast off and all sorts of depraved behaviors that had been condemned by earlier generations were now openly practiced and celebrated. The apostle Paul perfectly explained what happens to people when they reject God: "Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." (Romans 1:28-32)
And so, when Garry McCarthy and Rahm Emanuel want to blame guns for the bloodshed on Chicago's streets, they need to read Romans 1:28-32. Chicago doesn't have a gun problem--it has a moral problem. And passing more gun laws isn't going to solve that problem.
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