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What's Going On?

One of Marvin Gaye's songs asked, What's going on?" Part of the lyrics state that ,"They'are too many people dying." The news from this week is causing me to ask what's going on in our country? Seattle Washington:Last Saturday night a police was murdered in cold blood sitting in his car debriefing a traffic stop with a trainee. Fort Hood, Texas:Thursday an army psychiatrist turned the gun on fellow soldiers killing thirteen. Orlando, Florida:Fri day a person opened fire in a high rise building shooting eight and killing one person. I'm reaching sensory overload. I can hardly process one tragedy when the next one pops up in the news. What's going on?



We are living in an age of unparalleled violence in this country. I'm convinced the farther we moved from God the closer we've come to unraveling our republic. Did we ask for this when the courts ruled that we could not even post "You should not kill" in schools and governmental buildings? Remember the Supreme Court said that someone might look at the words and be influenced by them. Well is anyone else wanting something to influence and remind everybody that killing people is well, wrong? Oops! I forgot there is no basis for right or wrong anymore. If you feel like doing something just do it. After all if we vote that something is right that should make it right. Right?



From the Supreme Court Ruling:

If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments. However desirable this might be as a matter of private devotion, it is not a permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause."
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