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Barry K's avatar

What an excellent essay by you, Sarah.

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Mac Thompson's avatar

It all comes back to Honesty, doesn't it. It comes back to Truth. To true words. The Word.

You bring up allowing the light in again. There lies the rub. My position is that this isn't just a mental illness issue. It's a supernatural problem. The darkness that has been spreading through humanity is, at least in part, responsible for these urges to insanity and violence. Those seeds have always been there. We are, after all, human and therefore sinners from birth. The mark of Cain. The shame of Eve and Adam. First sin, etc.

But when these "mentally ill" folks specifically target Christians, or worse yet, Christian schools and children... that goes beyond illness. Now we are in the spiritual warfare territory. What that guy did in Minne was demonic. I watched his videos. Read through what was released of his "manifesto" (why do all evil people have manifestos? I blame Marx). Perused the images of his weaponry and drawings. There is no doubt in my mind that he was possessed. Or at the very least, incredibly oppressed by a demon. But something was whispering into his ear and drove him to this. Just as something has been whispering into his mother's ear (if she can even be called a mother) years before he was born.

This is an ancient war. It began before we were created. It once became so terrible, God destroyed the face of the Earth with a colossal flood to try and wipe the world clean of the wicked humans, the demonic nephilim, the corrupted animals and the very land itself.

But it didn't end there, as is obvious from just reading the Bible and studying history. Demons are very real. Fallen angels are very real. Possession and oppression and infestation by those dark entities is very real. The dark ones use weakness, sin, and mental illness to break a person, to corrupt them, mold them, guide their actions to do more sin, more evil. Some are so weak and messed up mentally that they can, and often do, succumb completely and then we have a tragedy like this. Or like the Christian school in Nashville. Or the "random" attacks and killings of Priests and Nuns.

You are correct. Society has spent too much time and energy on normalizing sin, normalizing mental illness, normalizing lies. But they have also normalized the demonic. And that is far more dangerous. That is the root of these problems.

And quite frankly, humanity is ill-prepared to fight this war, let alone see it for what it is.

Prophecy continues to unfold.

God bless.

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Sarah Cain's avatar

I don't think they're exclusive. By normalizing sin and rejecting Truth, we open doors to the demonic.

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Mac Thompson's avatar

Exactly.

100% agree.

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Charles's avatar

Recognizing the problem, and having lengthy discussions allowing both sides a voice will continue the existence with much more of the same. History reveals a short term answer from the still remembered past where this nonsense was not accepted in a civil society. Control the problem until you prove a workable solution. Right or wrong. Bring back the state run mental institutions of the past. Incarcerate those that scare the public. There were always evil criminals that were dealt with, by law. This requires a different long forgotten answer to the problem. Right or wrong. We are living with the see something say something mentality that occasionally is after the fact.

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David's avatar

If you subscribe that this may be an attack on the Catholic Church, the last 2/3 of the video below. you should find enlightening.

Neil Oliver interviews Candace Owens: ‘…they’re EVIL!!!’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulDAwaQeBMo&t=326s

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David's avatar

If you check on these mass shootings , you will find that they have Phycological problems and that they are taking prescribed drugs that make them libel to commit these actions , but the government will deny this and loose their medical records.

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