When Jonesboro was shocked last year we asked the question, “Is America Desensitized” (that article is available on our web page).  In the aftermath of the latest such tragedy that question can again be asked, but even more I think we should ask the question, “Are we shocked?”
    With the tragedy, indeed mass murder, which took place in Colorado we can ask that question and answer affirmatively “No!”  John 18:36 reads in the words of Jesus, “My kingdom is not of this world.”  This world has another ruler, and that is evidenced by such horrific acts as those to which we refer.  Sadly our schools are much to blame for the faults of society.  Let us notice three reasons then why I am, and perhaps you as well are, not shocked.
    Our schools teach that life is nothing, and that there is nothing beyond this life.  Our children are taught the dangerous doctrine of humanism that, “considers the complete realization of human personality to be the end of man’s life and seeks its development and fulfillment in the here and now.” (Humanist Manifesto I)  This means that our children, who thanks to atheism and humanism are not allowed to even hear one word about our God, are taught that they are the ultimate; that there is no God greater than they are.  Indeed they are taught, “No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.” (Humanist Manifesto II).  Further they are taught, “that moral values derive their source from human experience.  Ethics is autonomous and situational.”
    Our schools, and society, teach that our children descended from animals.  When you tell impressionable children that they come from animals what is there to stop them from acting like animals or, in cases such as this, worse than animals?  When our children were taught that they came from God and that He was their perfect model how many children walked the hallways of their schools “mowing down” their classmates?  My parents may have shielded such from me, but as I was a child I can not remember having heard about such catastrophes!  Perhaps that is because in the past our schools would teach that life is precious and that we are all God’s children, like Christ “a little lower than the angels” (Hebrews 2:7,9).
    Finally, at least on this small list, our children are taught that there is no ultimate standard.  When we teach that there is no ultimate standard, and no ultimate punishment, we are teaching them that there is no responsibility. A news correspondent covering the racial tension in Birmingham, AL, during the height of the Civil Rights movement referred to the following quote.  He looked down upon the city in turmoil, and considering the terrible way that minorities were treated asked, “Why does this happen.”  He then said the only answer that he could come up with was the following as quoted from Edmund Burke, “All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing.”   That sounds about right, America still has enough good men doing nothing!  The correspondent was not allowed to use that ending, I am.  I am praying for my child, and yours.  May we not sleep well until we have done something!