The Casey Anthony Verdict: My Opinion

Let me begin with a Facebook post by the Preacher husband of one of my past college students....Jason Anderson. He is so very right on!!!

Ok, why should we be surprised about the Anthony case. We legalized abortion, which is legally killing an unwanted baby. We teach that there are no fixed right and wrongs in this country, do whatever makes you happy. We teach evolution (only the strong survive and the weak die) to our children as the way life came about. Churches are too busy showing everyone how "cool" Christianity can be and how relevant we are than to teach MORALITY! We teach lawyers that it is good to lie to get a person off for murder. And we dumb down society so that they cannot make good judgments. Who else do we have to blame but ourselves for the way society has become???

Let's break Jason's post down. He's right about the slippery slope of abortion. Let's be honest.....if it is alright to kill a child at anytime while he or she is in the womb.....then what makes it wrong....once the child is born? The same logic that says it is alright to kill a human being in the womb is the same logic that can justify the taking of a human life at any time. Change of location....changes nothing.....logically. (By the way.....notice all the talk in the health care debate about "unneeded medical procedures for the elderly." They are the next on the chopping block.) As Francis Schaeffer predicted in the 70's.....abortion will erode human worth until human life is no longer worth a wooden nickle. WE ARE THERE!!!!

Jason is right when he says there are no fixed rights/wrongs any longer. It is called, "Post-modernism." Post-modernism rejects anything that is propositional truth. Truth is determined by existentialist/feeling oriented convictions...not by historical facts. This plays out in the statement, "Don't push your morality off on me." The ultimate determiner of morality is now, "What makes me happy."

Jason is right about evolution. We teach our children in public schools that they are evolved from animals. So why should we be surprised that human beings sometimes do what animals do in the wild, i.e., consume their young? It is all about survival of the fittest, right?

Jason states that "churches are too busy showing everyone how cool Christianity is." Ah....that's the Emerging Church. The Emerging Church scoffs at the ideal of historical Christianity or propositional truth from an inerrant Bible. It is a sin to them to critique culture but the Church of Jesus Christ is open game!!! "This ain't your grandma's church" is their constant refrain. Too bad!! Grandma's church would have given Casey what she deserved because Grandma's church believed in right and wrong. But hey.....the Praise Band is awesome, right??

Jason pointed out we dumb down society so that kids are incapable of critical thinking. Oh how right Jason is on this one. Our public school system is all about "filling in the blanks"........not about how to THINK!!!!!

So...as Jason so adequately points out.....should we really be surprised at the verdict??

It would appear.....our chickens have come home to roost!