We have seen it before but it seems to be increasingly worse as evil increasingly raises its deadly head. Senseless murders, shooting sprees, drive-bys and assaults are increasing all over the country. What happened last week in Buffalo New York is symptomatic of what is happening all over the country; it’s just Satanic forces being released nationwide.
The Sheriff in Buffalo described it as “pure evil” as he summarized the mass murder at a supermarket in Buffalo that appears to have been racially motivated.
The alleged shooter, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, is the latest example of the growing sense of violence and racial hatred in America.
What should concern the entire nation is the rage that is incubating in the hearts of our youth. For some that rage is aimed at other races: Blacks are angry at whites, whites are angry with blacks, and then Blacks are angry with other Blacks and everyone else.
The Buffalo News reports that an official in the school Mr. Gendron attended in Conklin, N.Y., said he had spoken of wanting to go on a shooting spree. He fits the profile of other young men who become mass shooters at an age when mental illness often strikes.
While at the same time that many are calling Gendron’s act “Pure Evil” they are also calling his rage “mental illness.” The danger with that characterization is that he is either mentally ill or he is an example of “Pure evil.”
We don’t believe that mentally ill people are examples of pure evil.
We believe Gendron is an example of “pure evil.”
He planned his assault.
He drove 200 miles to execute the murders.
And planned to do more.
He wasn’t mentally ill, it was “pure evil.”
Gendron reportedly wrote a 180-page manifesto expressing racist and anti-Semitic views. He seems to have targeted the Buffalo neighborhood for its heavily Black population.
He wasn’t mentally ill, he sought to land himself a place among the infamous likes of Dylann Roof, the deranged white man who killed nine African-Americans at a church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
We don’t believe, as some do, that there is a racist subculture that is sticking up its head. We believe there is a dark presence among us that is raising its ugly head.
We miss the point, we don’t see the increasing reports of murders and shootings. Mass shootings get our attention, but on a daily basis, there are increased reports of single murders and attempts all over the country.
We see it right here in our city. There was another murder of a teen just a few days ago. Another last week. They are becoming so frequent that they don’t even make the front page anymore.
The mass shootings focus our attention, but all of us should become more aware of the fact that a lack of godliness is producing a generation who dismisses godliness, morality, and civility.
When that happens, the result is …
“Pure Evil.”
