PRAISE GOD.
HIS GRACE IS BEYOND COMPREHENSION.
CHRIST'S BLOOD IS BEYOND SUPREME POWER IN IT'S EFFICACY.
These characters well earned my most intense loathing at the time of their crimes.
But I have not a microgram of trouble welcoming them as brothers--blood brothers through the Blood of my Lord and Savior.
The hearts of all men and women are deceitfully wicked. Scriptures are brutally accurate about that--regardless of whether or not given individuals are remotely aware of the fact or honest about the fact, or not.
It is only God's grace that protects any of us from ourselves--as well as from each other. Virtually any of us have the capacity to become the most ruthless and hideous murderers and torturers. Zimbardo's "prisoner/guard" experiments make that abundantly clear.
Given certain childhood experiences and lack of key attachment/affection behaviors by trustworthy parents; as well as certain adult contexts, circumstances etc. and most any of us could turn into any number of horrid creatures.
It is ONLY the Grace of God and our cooperation with God which prevents such.
Given the massive release of lawlessness demon forces in recent years and the culture of there being 'no right or wrong,' all manner of hideous brutalities are likely to increase across the globe and particularly in the USA.
I venture to hazard the assertion that there will be liberals in our Republic who will end up more murderously ruthless against Christians and other patriots than PolPot and his henchmen were.
Folks in Asia have tons of experience with such horrors currently and from historical incidents.
Americans think of themselves as ABOVE THAT. They are deceived. And the process of that deception being rubbed in their faces will be a most hideous one.
God is determined that people everywhere in our era--and I have a sense--that critters in all creation become acutely aware of at least a couple of facts:
1) that the heart of man once deceived by satan has become married to satan's values--and left to itself--it's only purpose is death, theft and destruction.
2) and that Only God's Grace through The Blood and life of Jesus can spare us; redeem us; cleanse our hearts and set us eternally right.
The devastatingly shocking and destructive thing is not that Pol Pot's henchment could now become authentic Believers in Christ's Love, Blood, Salvation by God's Grace.
The devastatingly shocking and destructive thing is that American's by vastly larger numbers than ever before--believe themselves to be quite above such hideous deadly doings APART FROM GOD. God is going to show them vividly otherwise. And a new crop of martyrs will gain their martyr's crowns thereby.
Yes, we are all corrupt and wicked to the core and rebellious and utterly corrupt and lost in our sin and have no hope of escaping God's righteous justice of His perfect standard, without His mercy and grace and HIS providing for us salvation Himself, through the blood of Christ.
Read the first 2 or 3 chapters of Romans. All men are guilty before God, none are better than others. Only God's righteousness, through faith in Jesus can cover us and protect us from judgement.
He is merciful to save our souls by purchasing us (from His judgement and eternal death) with His own blood. He is good. He has provided a way to be forgiven.