Posted on 10/03/2025 11:01:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Charlie Kirk’s murderer came from somewhere. We all do.
Since the “In the beginning …” times, our species has wrestled with the fundamental logic – and perceived unfairness – of holding parents responsible for the sins of their children. Or the other way around. In the Old Testament book of Ezekiel, the prophet makes this explicit:
The person who sins will die. A son will not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt, nor will a father suffer the punishment for the son’s guilt; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.
Yet we mortals struggle with this idea. It’s a matter of self-preservation. The unifying idea is that we must bear some responsibility for the behavior of our own kids. Our kids are reflections of us because we put our stamp on them. Functional societies have a justifiable fear of the ripple effects of other people’s bad parenting.
Healthy families are civilization’s frontline schoolhouse of needed humans – producers of good men and women, and citizens. Bad parents can easily replicate themselves, and often do. It is a rare and beautiful testament to the enduring nature of the good to see exceptions to the rule.
The inverse happens, too. I have met a many a good parent of a bad kid – a bad seed who grows up to be a bad adult. Or a good kid who leaves the home for school, falls in with the wrong crowd, and rejects root and branch the ways of his family.
Modern parents know at some point we must give our offspring over to a hard and secular world outside the home threshold, a world that undermines good parenting at every turn. A school system that inverts the established, time-tested ways for purposes of political...
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A good take on the situation.
Maybe the son will have a “come to Jesus” moment in prison.
exactly
Mormons don’t generally homeschool their children, that is the root of the problem for this family. Our schools are corrupt and immoral. My six children have never set foot in a public elementary or high school and never will.
The family faced a situation I hope none of us ever have to.
My personal pet peeve is the use of uninformed understanding of words without clarity. I suppose the lawyer side of me could justify the word “prodigal” but it is a stretch. Prodigal simply means wasteful. Where was the assassin wasteful?
Gwjack
P.S. As Rush frequently said, words mean things. The use of a word because it sounds bad without understanding it is ignorant.
See also John 9.1-3, the man born blind. Jesus is asked, “Who sinned—this man or his parents—that he was born blind?” Jesus tells them neither sinned.
I can’t say that I blame you. Public schools are a breeding ground for teaching kids their own form of “morality”.
Yet, Candace Owens tells us that it was NOT Tyler Robinson who killed Charlie Kirk. Go figure.
Prodigal simply means wasteful. Where was the assassin wasteful?
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He squandered a spiritual inheritance rather than material.
(Jesus continued) “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.”
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