Posted on 01/09/2022 2:54:12 PM PST by yesthatjallen
New insights on Dennis Rader, the BTK killer who lived in plain sight in Wichita when he killed ten residents in 20 years, are revealed in a new docuseries
Rader is sometimes remorseful, 'depending on the day,' says forensic psychologist Kathryn Ramsland, who spoke to him from jail for nearly a decade
Ramsland said that Rader simultaneously views himself as a 'monster' and a 'good person who did some bad things'
Exclusive conversations between Ramsland and Rader were aired on the A&E docuseries 'BTK: Confession of a Serial Killer,' which aired on January 8
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The fact that this serial-killing, murdering sonofabitch is still alive says more about the decline of our society than anything I can think of!
Nope, One of the books of St, Augustine entitled Treaties on Rebuke and Grace, he explicitly taught that salvation can be lost if we do not live in accordance to our Christian faith and relapse to our sinful ways.
If, however, being already regenerate and justified, he relapses of his own will into an evil life, assuredly he cannot say, “I have not received”, because of his own free choice to evil he has lost the grace of God, that he had received. Treaties on Rebuke and Grace, p.9
“Go and sin no more.”
Let me clarify myself: Augustine believed that the Elect cannot lose their salvation. While he gave warnings not to fall away, he did not actually believe the Elect could do so. He believed that the non-elect could, for a time, taste of the gifts of grace, either through Baptism or by actual conversion for a time, and then fall away. These could lose their salvation, since God would not give them the grace to persevere:
“But of such as these [the Elect] none perishes, because of all that the Father has given Him, He will lose none. John 6:39 Whoever, therefore, is of these does not perish at all; nor was any who perishes ever of these. For which reason it is said, They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would certainly have continued with us. John 2:19”. (Augustine, Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints)
"... the human will does not obtain grace by freedom, but obtains freedom by grace; when the feeling of delight has been imparted through. the same grace, the human will is formed to endure; it is strengthened with unconquerable fortitude; controlled by grace, it never will perish, but, if grace forsake it, it will straightway fall; by the Lord's free mercy it is converted to good, and once converted it perseveres in good; the direction of the human will toward good, and after direction its continuation in good, depend solely upon God's will, not upon any merit of man. Thus there is left to man such free will, if we please so to call it, as he elsewhere describes: that except through grace the will can neither be converted to God nor abide in God; and whatever it can do it is able to do only through grace. "(Augustine, Aurelius. Augustine's Writings on Grace and Free WIll (Kindle Locations 45-46). Monergism Books. Kindle Edition.)
Wasn’t just how he treated his victims.....he was a sadistic killer and even abused himself. Admitted he was not insane and very aware of what he was planning and doing. He was meticulous and detailed about his behavior and how he planned his attacks.
Have watched this case over the years. .....he was and is certainly ‘disturbed’ but I wouldn’t call him insane.
Just another sadistic serial killer who should have been executed. The idea we house, feed and provide for these killers is evidencing our system of Justice is well beyond broken.
I agree.....eventually they will always make a mistake that’s generally what gets them in the end. He is certainly one disgusting individual to say the least. But in reality just another sadistic serial killer.
While there might be some good in understanding people like him in the hope of preventing others like him from acting on their inclinations, I fear the opposite might be the case. Making public his wicked thinking and the details of his evil acts might serve as an inspiration to other twisted minds. Rader is an evil person who needs to be totally and permanently removed from society either to rot in a cell isolated from all outside contact or to have been promptly executed and his memory erased from history. If there is anything that can be learned from Rader it is that evil is real and exists in our world.
bkmk
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