Another School Shooting
My heart is just torn out because of yet another school shooting in our country against Christian individuals. As a pediatric counselor, I don’t know how those precious children will ever manage to move past this event without the ongoing fear of something similar happening to them in the future. This is not something you can remove from the children, staff, and parents who have been affected by the events of that fateful day. This is something far bigger than the best counselor out there can manage. It is a God-sized problem that only He can deal with.
President Biden’s former press secretary, Jen Psaki, took to social media yesterday and posted this regarding the school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, MN:
“Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers do not end school shootings. Prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.”
Friends, God is our ONLY hope and prayer is the means by which we usher that hope into our hearts and minds. Anything short of that is useless. I don’t think Jen Psaki got that memo.
Instead of putting the blame where it should be, on the shooter and his specific kind of mental illness called transgenderism, the liberal media is coming out demonizing conservatives and Christians, and anyone out there who owns a gun. The mayor of Minneapolis said yesterday, “Stop villainizing our trans community!” That same media is now telling us that it is “extremely rare” for a transgendered individual to commit such a heinous crime.
I find that very interesting in light of the fact that:
In Sept. 2018, a transgender individual shot and killed 3 fellow workers at a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, MD.
In May 2019, a transgender individual carried out a mass shooting at a STEM School Highland Ranch in Douglas County, CO.
In Nov. 2022, a transgender individual carried out a deadly mass shooting at gay night club in Colorado Springs,
In March 2023, a transgender individual carried out a mass shooting at Covenant School (a Christian School) in Nashville, TN.
And in each and every one of these shootings, the media blamed conservative Christians for the blood bath. With the shooting at a Christian school this week in Minnesota, the liberal left has once again called for the rest of us to “not hate on the trans community”.
If you are not sick of the demonization of Christians, you should be.
Why would we ever have empathy for those who knowingly slam the Word of God and seek to drag others into their deviant kind of religion? Why would we ever express mercy for those who hate the truth and pull others into a lie? I talk to people in counseling situations frequently about empathy and mercy. Empathy is feeling with someone in the sense that you walk beside them and see life from their perspective. Mercy is showing kindness and forgiveness towards another person who has wronged you. These 2 terms are connected by compassion. But, there is a line that can be crossed when empathy becomes toxic and mercy becomes misguided.
Allie Beth Stuckey recently released a book called, Toxic Empathy. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m going to. I heard her on the radio today discussing this book and she said that, “Empathy becomes toxic when it leads us away from affirming the truth of God.” BINGO! That’s it!
The absolute most kind and loving thing any of us can do for an individual is to share the truth of God’s Word with them. Anything short of that is not love. It is either apathy or it is hate. If I empathize with an individual who is obviously mentally ill in the sense that he/she believes a person can change his/her gender, I’m not doing a good thing, I’m promoting a lie from the pits of hell. Is. 5:20 says, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
In Oct. 2023, when Israel was attacked by demonic people who killed babies and whole families, there was about a week of worldwide sadness and empathy, and then the world turned on the victims and sided with the perpetrators….. And now the entire world is screaming, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!” The world (including the U.S,) has forced Israel to deliver millions of dollars worth of food to those who killed their own people. Toxic empathy and misguided mercy.
True love never ever delights in evil, sin, or unrighteousness. (1 Cor. 13:6) But believers in Christ are told that we are judgmental and haters if we don’t agree that sin is beautiful. We must never do so! Place your empathy, mercy, and compassion at the altar for those who deserve it, the true victims of this crime, the children, staff and parents. And if you truly want to love those people who are involved in evil, ask the Lord to draw them to Himself because noone comes to the Father except He draws them. (Jn. 6:44)
