What If Child Molesters Bore Us?

By EVANG. MIKE AZINGER

7 FOXBORO DRIVE

VIENNA, WEST VIRGINIA

E-MAIL: MIKEAZINGER@aol.com

Web Page: www.GuardingtheLandmarks.com

Two boys were rescued from a male kidnapper, and, one presumes, child molester, this week, once again giving every parent in America reason to suspect every adult male in America.

The media, in their predictable pursuit of all the wrong answers is, as usual, asking all the wrong questions. Glenn Beck, to his credit, was the only one I heard ask (one of) the correct ones: "Was there porn involved?" Bravo, Glen Beck.

But he was the only one I heard ask. Was there porn involved? All the credit in the world to Mr. Beck and his courage in asking a bold question, but when I got up this morning and saw daylight, I didn’t ask if the sun was involved. Some questions need not be asked because the answers are self-evident.

But the reason we need to ask them in modern-day America is because the media - almost without exception - is morally incapable of asking the questions, and most Americans are so saturated with moral relativism, they believe it’s wrong to even think about Mr. Beck’s stouthearted question.

There are two major questions that need to be answered in these (continuing) cases of child abductions and molestations:

1. Why are we not doing anything to outlaw the rampant pornography that - God in Heaven we all know it’s axiomatically true! - is creating these perverted monsters?

2. Why are we not talking about the quick and severe (as in speedy trial and hanging at sunrise) justice that a society that cared about justice and was capable of being abhored by evil would mete out to these perverted monsters?

There. Everything else is peripheral. How do we protect our children? By taking care of questions 1 and 2. How do we spot a child molester? Take care of questions 1 and 2, and we won’t need to worry. How do we keep more men from becoming child molesting perverts? Root out the corrupter - pornography (Question 1). How much time in jail for child molesters? No time in jail - swift execution (Question 2).

I understand that I’m living in a dream land. I understand that most of our leaders are cowards and incapable of making a moralistic statement let alone passing a harsh but just law against men who rape innocent, spotless, defenseless children. But let me dream a little, will you?

I heard Bill O’Reilly call what the kidnapper/molester, Michael Devlin, did to those two boys "evil" on his show this week. Good. Perhaps our nation isn’t thoroughly inculcated in non-judgmentalism after all.

According to the New York Post, Devlin’s computer was found to contain child pornography. Anybody surprised? Of course not. The freak had child pornography written all over him. The only place the fool messed up was in not putting his computer in his bedroom. Then every godless liberal group - the ACLU, PFAW, NAMBLA, AU, etc., etc. - would have come to Devlin’s defence because we know that it is nobody’s business what they do in the privacy of their own bedroom.

But that is as far as we can go in modern times it seems. We will at times rise to the occasion and call something evil, but our knees grow weak when it comes time to do the next logical thing and punish the evil that is doing someone harm.

Bomb our embassies: "Evil!" Bomb the World Trade Center: "Evil!" Bomb the SS Cole: "Evil." (Throw your children off a bridge or drown them in the bathtub. "Mentally ill!" Well, three out of four aint bad). We will still call many things evil, but we don’t have the stomach to remove it like the cancer it is.

But if something is truly evil as what the molester Michael Devlin did to these boys is, does it not demand, by virtue of its very nature, that the evil be severely and permanently punished and, consequently, banished from society? "And that [false] prophet…shall be put to death . . . So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee." (Deut. 13:5). "The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him [the idolater] to put him to death . . . So thou shalt put the evil away from among you." (Deut. 17:7). God’s solution for evil is death to the perpetrator so that the evil is put away from the people permanently.

But we Americans have a better idea: put evil on parole, slap an ankle bracelet around it, warn it not to do anything naughty again, and let the parents of defenseless children hope that these perverts (there are thousands and thousands of them!) aren’t near one of their children when they become uncontrollably aroused in their ungodly desires. See how easy it is to be smarter than God?

May I share a verse with you that sums up the reason all of this licentious and brutal criminal activity is taking place in America? It is this: "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore, the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Eccl. 8:11.

Ever since America got away from doing things God’s way and the liberals took over the justice system, sentences have not been executed speedily in America, and the hearts of men have and continue "to be set in them to do evil." Death rows across the country are full of men who should have been executed years ago. Their very existence causes the hearts of men "to be set in them to do evil."

Like every other cultural problem we have in America, our problem with child molesters is a problem of idolatry. We have left God - deciding that sowing the wind, instead of bringing a whirlwind, would bring endless pleasure. We were desperately wrong. It has brought horror.

I wonder sometimes if what I’m seeing happen to our country is really true. Is it true that the shocking crimes and cruelty to our fellow man that we see every day is really happening? Is it true that these crimes that our great-grandfathers could never have imagined have actually lost their ability to horrify us, and that instead of being shocked by a news report about children being abducted and molested, we in time yawn and click to the next channel? What scares me most, I think, is that tomorrow I too may not be shocked at all.

But it is true indeed, I’m afraid; it is not a bad dream from which we will all awake and sigh with relief: "Ah, it was only a nightmare!" No, it is all too real. And the deeper depths of evil to which we can further descend will only be as deep as the evil in the heart of man itself. That thought alone should cause us to be terrified and call out to God for mercy.

I think, however, we will more likely click to the next channel. U