Morality no longer plays an important role in our society. Because of secular psychology, no one is responsible for their actions. Of course, this goes back to the Garden of Eden when Adam blamed the woman and the woman blamed the serpent. It is fallen man’s nature to blame someone else for one’s own actions. These people act as if they were robots and programmed to do what they did.
Or they claim that it is out of character. It just happens that this time they got caught. How many other times did they do it and not get caught? Usually, there has been a pattern formed prior to the actual act. Whether it was in the thought or in both thought and deed, people do not just one day act out something that they have not been stewing about for a period of time.
You can hear the secularist claiming that you cannot legislate morality. Then what gets legislated and why have a legislature? What they mean by this is they do not want Christian morality only secular morality, which is really immorality. On the death penalty issue, they will say that the government does not have the right to take the life of a convicted murderer. The murderer has the right to take life, but the government does not. The murderer gives death and gets sentenced to life. Does this make sense?
Yet at the same time, they believe in the death penalty, not for the guilty, but for the innocent via abortion and euthanasia. The guilty must be protected at all costs and the innocent lose their rights under this moral system. These are the same individuals who call for gun control and act as if the gun killed people. Guns have never killed anyone by themselves. People kill other people using guns. This is typical of secularists who cannot tell the difference between a cause and an effect. They will seek legislation against the effect and wonder why murders continue to escalate. They will blame it on gun owners rather than upon criminals.
The most blatant of morality being turned upside down is in the Mary Winkler case. She was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of her husband Matthew Winkler, who was a Church of Christ minister. She had originally been charged with first degree murder.
Her defense in this case was predictable. She claimed to have suffered as an abused spouse. There was no way of verifying her story. Matthew Winkler was put on trial instead of Mary Winkler. He was not alive to defend himself against her accusations. If she was being abused by him, why did she not go to the authorities and take out charges against him? Her story would have been believable then.
Even if Matthew Winkler abused her, she did not have the right to murder him in his sleep. She did not give him the opportunity for self-defense which tells us about the character of Mary Winkler. Mary Winkler became a vigilante. She had options in dealing with this situation but she chose to take matters into her own hands. She claimed that the gun went off accidently. If this is so, then why did she flee to the gulf coast of Alabama with her three daughters? Why did she not call the police and say I accidently shot my husband? Her actions make her story questionable.
Juries are unpredictable. How many women get the death penalty when they commit murder as opposed to men? There is a double standard here. Women are not held to the same standard as a man. They can kill their own children with impunity. They will be declared insane. This is almost automatic and very predictable.
Mary Winkler’s defense was that she was a victim. She was presented in this way rather than the true victim, Matthew Winkler. This case has drawn national attention because of the individuals involved, a pastor and a pastor’s wife. Her story appears in national magazines as if she was justified in what she did. This is designed to give her credibility when she has none.
What is the most outrageous thing about this sordid affair is her appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show. I am not advocating that she cannot appear on this show. I do not have the power to stop her from appearing. It is Oprah Winfrey’s show and she can have on whom she desires. However, I can speak against the circumstances involved. When someone does something publicly, they are open to public criticism.
Let me say up front: it is never right for a man to hit or physically abuse a woman and it is never right for a woman to do the same to a man.
Mary Winkler is going to discuss Battered Women’s Syndrome on the show. This is psycho babel. Question, does shooting your husband in the back while he is sleeping qualify as Battered Man’s Syndrome? Why is this only a women’s issue? Do women never abuse their spouses? The Battered Women’s Syndrome is borne out of feminism, which sees men as oppressors.
It is claimed that those who suffer from this syndrome have low self esteem, whatever that is, and believe that the abuse is their own fault. You will find in the vast majority of these cases that this syndrome will be based upon self reporting. Self reporting is one of the least accurate ways of gaining information because it is subjective and not objective. Psychology relies heavily upon subjectivism rather than objective statistics.
Mary Winkler has now become the poster child for Battered Women’s Syndrome. She hopes to "advise the public of the dangers of not recognizing and addressing the symptoms associated with BWS in hopes of averting further tragedies." (AP). Question, averting further tragedies for whom? For herself or for supposed abusive husbands who are asleep and get shot in the back? What credibility does a convicted felon have as an advisor? Mary Winkler has demonstrated no remorse for her actions, which further damages her believability as a self reported victim.
I do predict that she will gain an audience among the feminists who hate men anyway. Some of us are morally outraged by her actions and believe that justice has been perverted. I, unlike her, do not need to take matters into my own hands. God will judge her for her actions.
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