(Harbingers Daily)—Ken Ham highlights the disturbing trend where individuals like Luigi Mangione, accused of murder, are perceived as heroes by segments of society. He points to public support for Mangione, contrasting it with the moral implications of taking a life, which he argues should universally be recognized as wrong.
Ham references comments from politicians like Elizabeth Warren, suggesting that societal pressures can incite violence. He critiques this viewpoint as reckless and questions whether such arguments could apply if politicians were at risk.
The discussion delves into the consequences of abandoning absolute moral standards, suggesting that without a universal authority, individuals determine right and wrong based on personal preference. This perspective leads to moral confusion and societal decay.
Ham asserts that a society rejecting God and biblical principles fosters a culture where actions like murder can be justified. He emphasizes that the deeper issue is the state of the human heart, which he describes as deceitful and sinful.
Ham concludes by arguing for a need to address the underlying spiritual issues contributing to violence rather than merely treating the symptoms. He advocates for a return to biblical truth and spiritual regeneration through Jesus Christ as a solution to the culture’s moral decay.
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OH, so it’s moral to murder someone because a judge and jury have declared a life forfeit. You GD hypocrites. In the old West we formed Posses to go after bad guys. So you would ask what makes a person a bad-guy. When what they do kills millions of people then IT IS TIME TO TAKE THEM OUT. The posse that killed that CEO was just a posse of one man.
That CEO is as guilty as sin and everyone knows it, but the sniveling rats who want to protect those criminals are supposedly good Christians. Now get this; It was those Good Christians who allowed that CEO to do what he did killing those in need because he had to pay his stockholders. It is time to stop turning the other cheek and take a stand against the real criminals, not those who hold the criminals feet to the fire.
In China, when corporate heads knowingly do things that result in death, they’re put to death. I.E. 2008 Chinese melamine poisonings.
In the USA, corporations factor avoidable death as a direct result of their faulty products, admitting that it’s cheaper to pay out fines/settlements than to redesign a product to make it safe. I.E. Ford Motors and the Ford Pinto.
The Corporate model shields greedy psychopaths from justice. It’s an ubiquitous fact of life that police/DA’s protect.
As an inescapable and easily predicted result, street justice is one of two options; submit to evil or resist evil.
I choose the latter.
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Left wing ideology supports murder –
Millions of babies by abortionists & Planned Parenthood
Unarmed protestor Ashley Babbitt shot by Robert Byrd
Roseanne Boyland beaten to death by capitol police
1200 innocent concert goers by Muslim terrorists
United Health Care CEO
Justice does not happen when corporations shield individuals from RULE OF LAW. That’s why street justice is justified.
Corporatocracy or corpocracy, where corporations control the state and society is the problem.
Police predictably, institutionally and consistently engaging in selective enforcement of law results in police being professional OBSTRUCTORS OF JUSTICE.
A society is NOT a CIVILisation unless the laws are applied EQUALLY. Police and their selective prosecution DA’s are the means for ALL political corruption.
If you really care about justice and rule of law, then stop allowing people to evade justice by hiding behind corporations while committing premeditated murder and paying tax deductible fines instead of prison and the electric chair.
Well, Ken Ham is wrong as well. It is NOT “universally wrong” to take a life. If it was, God would not have ordered us to do exactly that to those who are convicted of murdering innocent human beings. The fact is that it is universally good, and right, to do so in those situations. As well, it is universally wrong NOT to forfeit the life of a murderer.
His claim also falls flat when discussing just wars, where taking the life of a person threatening one’s country or family is morally justified, and even COMMANDED in scripture. I love Ham, but he needs to be much more careful when making these kinds of statements.