SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, PSYCHOTROPICS, EVOLUTION, AND MORAL RELATIVITY

If we are really concerned about school shootings, we should examine the factors that have numbed minds enabling them to commit the horrific. There are religions that numb the minds against the voice of the conscience. There are also the psychotropic medications that numb both mind and body to moral realities. It seems that most of our shooters were either on psychotropics or had recently got off of them.

However, there is another numbing factor that has given the “okay” to all forms of anti-social behavior. God has become the one taboo within our school system. Teachers cannot pray, carry a Bible, or say even one thing in favor of Jesus. Meanwhile, they can promote every God-denying philosophy and sexual aberration imaginable.

Within this God-vacuum, many substitutes have poured in to fill the gap. Instead of trusting in God, students are instructed that they should trust in themselves and find their strength and truth within. However, many of the things they encounter within themselves are not moral.

Instead of teaching objective moral laws and principles - and these can only be justified by the existence of One law-Giver – the schools have taught “morals clarification” (MC) exercises. These exercises neglect any consideration that we are accountable before God. Instead, MC has the students clarifying for themselves what they truly believe to be right. Whether it is bullying or seeking revenge, they have to be clear within themselves. And evidently, they are getting the message.

MC is an arm of moral relativism that denies the existence of any objective moral truths. Instead, morality is merely what we create, what works for us. Consequently, if someone is drawn to evil, they can simply invoke the truths of evolution, that the human is just another animal. How do we treat animals? We eat them and work them. This is how serial killers have justified their murders. Jeffrey Dahmer, who had been murdered in prison, related:

·        “If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what’s the point of trying to modify your behaviour to keep it within acceptable ranges? That’s how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing…” (in an interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC, Nov. 29, 1994)

Executed serial killer and attorney, Ted Bundy, invoked “scientific enlightenment,” another way of invoking evolution:

·       “Then I learned that all moral judgments are “value judgments,” that all value judgments are subjective, and that none can be proved to be either ‘right’ or ‘wrong’…And I quickly discovered that the greatest obstacle to my freedom, the greatest block and limitation to it, consists in the insupportable value judgment that I was bound to respect the rights of others…Surely, you would not, in this age of scientific enlightenment, declare that God or nature has marked some pleasures as ‘moral’ or ‘good’ and others as ‘immoral’ or ‘bad’? That is the honest conclusion to which my education has led me – after the most conscientious examination of my spontaneous and uninhibited self.” (Christian Research Journal, Vol 33, No 2, 2010, 32)

The human heart has always been a reservoir for evil thoughts. However, now we have a generous supply of mind and conscience-numbing resources to give wings to these thoughts and send them soaring.

God-given moral absolutes can no longer be excluded from the conversation unless we are content to witness a steady flow of school-shooters. Would this discussion represent the establishment of a religion? No more than the promotion of moral relativism or any other philosophy our schools want to foist upon their students!