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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Balze, we had a relevant discussion in the men's group a few days ago, at church.

A retired pastor pointed out that "forgiveness is the only option."

Otherwise, the rage will consume.

That doesn't mean you don't protect yourself, it doesn't mean you don't seek justice, and it doesn't mean that the justice system cannot execute/punish.

The reason why the Lord says "Vengeance is Mine," is that He is the only one who can carry such a weight.

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But the nightmare, sadly, is far greater than that. If we’re being honest and level-headed, it’s not too hard to understand that the tragedy was imminent. It didn’t happen in a vacuum and it was no freak aberration. Charlie Kirk was shot because great forces spent decades reshaping social norms and institutions and creating vast cadres of Americans ready to do great violence to anyone they were led to believe was their enemy. This isn’t hyperbole. In a grim coincidence, just a few hours before Kirk’s assassination, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released a survey of 68,000 students in 257 universities nationwide; one in three said it was acceptable to use violence in response to offensive speech.

Like all complex and still unfurling stories, the account of how we got here is intricate and contains multitudes. But we must look at this straight in the face, and attack the problems head on.

Let’s start, fittingly enough, with births. Over the last few decades, American birthrates have plummeted precipitously, and are projected to reach 1.6 births per women in the next three decades, well beneath the 2.1 births per woman replacement rate. This should come as no surprise, because Americans, it turns out, have also stopped having sex. In 1990, according to the Institute for Family Studies, 55% of Americans reported having sex on a regular basis. The number now stands at 37%, and it’s dropping even faster for younger Americans: In 2022, the Kinsey Institute found that one in four members of Gen Z had yet to have sex with a real, live, human partner.

How did we become a sexless society failing to reproduce? The answer is simple: by design. For 30 years at least, we’ve all been treated to a carefully orchestrated campaign against embodiment, or the idea that biological realities matter and that they have something profound to do with who we are. It began with abortion, which we were told was a human rights issue and, besides, was to be kept safe, legal, and rare. Then, before we knew it, we had entertainers like Michelle Wolf celebrating abortion as an all-out good on Comedy Central. Then came the tide of transgenderism, which began with the silencing of a Brown University professor whose research proved that kids were declaring themselves trans because of peer pressure emanating in large part from the culture and social media platforms. Before too long, we were told that though every cell in the human body has its own sex-specific chromosomes, gender is a social construct that could be changed at will, and that biological males should now be allowed to compete in women’s sports or choose to be incarcerated in women’s prisons.

Those who objected to this lunacy were silenced, or, if they were unfortunate enough to be British, arrested. Entire generations of children grew up being taught that it was right and good to deny obvious biological reality. Entire swaths of doctors were trained to say that cutting off the breasts of a healthy young child was called “gender affirming care” and was entirely virtuous.

This collective psychosis didn’t just happen. It was orchestrated by a tightly knit coalition that included Democratic politicians who pushed transgender messaging and policies —including, say, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who cheered on federally funded sex change operations for prisoners—as well as media outlets who framed the issue as a civil rights crusade, foundations that funneled millions into activist NGOs, and corporations that rushed to enforce the new abnormal. And this collective psychosis left us with no shortage of people like, Robin Westman, for example, a transgender youth who eventually picked up a rifle and slaughtered two children in a Catholic school in Minneapolis, or Audrey Hale, a biological female transitioning to male who massacred three children in a Christian school in Nashville. That broken, disfigured people will eventually do something desperate should come as no surprise.

The list of iniquities, sadly, goes on and on. In the name of “criminal justice reform,” for example, hordes of violent criminals were let loose, backed up by progressive attorneys general and activist judges and local legislators who robbed law enforcement officials of any means of meting out justice. Bail, we were told, was modern day Jim Crow. Prison was slavery in other forms. Policing was racist. And when savages like Decarlos Brown Jr., with 14 prior violent convictions to his record, were set loose, it was only a matter of time before they produced a knife and slaughtered Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee, on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina. When brave men like Daniel Penny, who successfully neutralized a deranged violent criminal threatening to harm fellow commuters on the New York subway, intervened, they were dragged through the coals in court and on TV. When a police officer detained a repeated violent felon high on fentanyl and methamphetamines, leading to his death, American cities burned for days, with Democrat politicians taking a knee and corporations paying vast fortunes to a group, Black Lives Matter, that vowed to dismantle the nuclear family and failed to report what it was doing with its vast funds. Put bluntly, then, we have angry, violent, and hopeless people because many of our societal institutions worked assiduously to produce them since at least 2008.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
If my math is correct, 68K divided by 3 = 22666K.

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Originally posted by synthplayer:

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Balze, we had a relevant discussion in the men's group a few days ago, at church.

A retired pastor pointed out that "forgiveness is the only option."

Otherwise, the rage will consume.

That doesn't mean you don't protect yourself, it doesn't mean you don't seek justice, and it doesn't mean that the justice system cannot execute/punish.

The reason why the Lord says "Vengeance is Mine," is that He is the only one who can carry such a weight.

I'm sure you remember the story of King David and his sins of adultery and murder. He begged the Lord for forgiveness and he was forgiven, but he still had to pay the price for what he had done with Bathsheba and Uriah.

The prescribed punishment for murder is the death penalty. He can be forgiven, but he still must face the punishment. It's justice.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Now all of a sudden the Left is trying to paint the shooter as some sort of ultra far right radical that hated Charlie Kirk for not being conservative enough, pointing to some internet memes associated with him and that “he was from a Republican family”.

It’s also so freaking laughable with them, every time one of their own does something bad they all rush to pull this BS.

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Originally posted by xd45man:
His voter registration was “unaffiliated “. You can look it up yourself with his information from the arrest report. The evidence is overwhelming that he is not in any way associated with the right. He is far left based on the evidence and anyone saying he is on the right is a liar.

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

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Originally posted by mrprovy:
The video never posts correctly for me on this forum