Will the Division in America Be Healed?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns a great division in America. Approximately 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ taught a parable about the wheat and the tares and how they are to grow together until the last days when the two would be separated.

In her article published at The Daily Signal, Kimberly Ells wonders if that foretold separation is happening now. Whether or not the foretold separation is happening, Ells states that something significant is happening now. 

I believe that a separation is happening now that will culminate in the wheat and tares scenario. It is a division between good and evil, righteousness and wickedness. Ells calls it a division “between those who endorse murder and those who do not,” cold-blooded murder – not a life taken in self-defense. She believes that the murder group is growing and points to the assassination attempts on Donald Trump and the murder of Charlie Kirk as evidence.

It appears that a disturbingly high number of Americans now view killing as an acceptable avenue for settling political differences. Glenn Beck noted recently that 55% of “left of center” Americans say it is “somewhat justified” to murder a sitting president. [Absolutely not acceptable!]

How can this be? Democracy has not traditionally been a rule by murder project. It is supposed to be just what Charlie Kirk presumed it to be: A place where people can vigorously debate problems and vote on how best to solve them – without killing each other.

The Founding Fathers of America must be looking earthward with furrowed brows witnessing what is becoming of the land of the free and the home of the brave. [Remember that saying in the Declaration of Independence about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?] Murder is not brave; it is cowardly. It is an admission that you cannot win on your own merits and must therefore muzzle someone else with the permanence of death in order to win.

This does not constitute winning. This is simply suspending the contest in the middle and running away to hide. At present, it is still illegal to kill someone in cold blood, so the murderer must always try to escape or conceal himself. A true victor steps into the limelight and graciously accepts victory and general applause….

But now that cheering for the death of a perceived enemy and in some cases literally dancing on the grave of the murdered is now going mainstream, I wonder how long it will be until the murderer himself is lauded. Some cultures already celebrate those who seek to take out political or religious opponents on behalf of a group identity at large. This dark practice seems to be spreading.

Ells used the term “culture of death” to describe what is happening in America. It is a term that was once used in “reference to abortion, refusing to bear and raise children, euthanasia, war, etc.” Now, “culture of death seems to be widening its reach like a cancer seizing upon the core organs of society.” Ells continued:

During a national prayer breakfast in Washington in 1994, Mother Teresa famously got to what may be the heart of the matter. She said, “If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?” She continued, “By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems … So, abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love one another, but to use any violence to get what they want.”

If we accept and even celebrate the killing of the smallest and most helpless among us, how much of a stretch is it to expand the scope of acceptable killing to innocent and open-hearted people like Charlie Kirk? ….

Celebrating murder rather than grieving for the dead is a late-term symptom of a society in the throes of catastrophic collapse into chaos. If there is a great division happening in society right now, I want to be found on the side opposite to the culture of death….

Like Ells, I want to be on side that celebrates “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” To survive another 250 years, the United States of America must destroy the “culture of death” and return to a nation that protects life. We must have an environment of open and honest debate and discussion and secure and honest elections.