RESTORING SANITY

To be relevant, one needs to keep up with current events. So many people that you encounter on a daily basis have no idea what is going on around them and when something takes place, it takes them totally by surprise. Most people do not care about serious matters. Their minds are set on which Hollywood Celebrity is pregnant and which ones are getting and divorce or being remarried for who knows how many times.

Theology has consequences. All people are theological. It is never a matter of theology, no theology, but which. Most people are schizophrenic when it comes to their theology. They have taken a bit of this and a bit of that and have created a mosaic, not knowing the source of their beliefs. Their thinking is murky at best. When their thinking is challenged on any issue, they lack the ability to identify the issue accurately and are forced into silence.

The so called intellectuals (academicians) are almost unanimously against the death penalty. They hate it with all their heart. There is almost nothing that angers them more than this. Every argument that they foment is shallow and illogical. They give more credence and apologies to the criminals than the victim. They are not concerned for the victim or their families but for the criminal. Those who are against the death penalty are pro-murder. This is not surprising because these same individuals support the murder of unborn children.

On Wednesday, April 16, 2008, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection as the way of execution for convicted murderers. Executions that used lethal injections had been suspended until the Court ruled on this issue. By an overwhelming majority of 7-2, the Court upheld the constitutionality of this execution method. The AP story said it was a splintered Court, "A splintered Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday, approving the most widely used method of lethal injection." Splintered? Is 7-2 splintered? Overwhelming majority is an accurate statement. Splintered is typical of the media’s inaccuracy.

The media is against the death penalty. Their favorite argument is that an innocent man may be put to death. You will forever find articles in the paper regarding stories of someone that was convicted and sentenced to death and was found to be innocent. When someone like Ted Bundy is sentenced to death, they will never say that Ted deserved what he got. They are not interested in justice. All of their poorly thought out arguments uphold injustice.

How many innocent men have been put to death? The number is very small. How many guilty men have been put to death? Their names are legion. I am glad that the Supreme Court has upheld sanity by upholding the death penalty for convicted murderers. Be sure of this, academia and the media will try to get the death penalty abolished. They are insane and desire to have the world ruled by their insanity. Once again, thank you Supreme Court!